1997 Bausch & Lomb Championships – Doubles

Chanda Rubin and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Rubin with Brenda Schultz-McCarthy and Sánchez Vicario with Larisa Savchenko.

Rubin and Schultz-McCarthy lost in the quarterfinals to Savchenko and Sánchez Vicario.

Savchenko and Sánchez Vicario lost in the semifinals to Nicole Arendt and Manon Bollegraf.

Lindsay Davenport and Jana Novotná won in the final 6–3, 6–0 against Arendt and Bollegraf.

Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. The top four seeded teams received byes into the second round.

• # Larisa Savchenko / 🇪🇸 Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (semifinals)

• # 🇺🇸 Gigi Fernández / 🇺🇸 Mary Joe Fernández (semifinals)

• # 🇺🇸 Lindsay Davenport / 🇨🇿 Jana Novotná (champions)

• # 🇺🇸 Nicole Arendt / Manon Bollegraf (final)

• # 🇺🇸 Katrina Adams / Caroline Vis (quarterfinals)

• # 🇪🇸 Conchita Martínez / 🇦🇷 Patricia Tarabini (quarterfinals)

• # 🇺🇸 Angela Lettiere / 🇯🇵 Nana Miyagi (first round)

• # 🇺🇸 Chanda Rubin / Brenda Schultz-McCarthy (quarterfinals)