1997 Great American Insurance ATP Championships – Doubles

Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor were the defending champions, but Knowles did not compete this year. Nestor teamed up with Cyril Suk and lost in quarterfinals to Olivier Delaître and Fabrice Santoro.

Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde won the title by defeating Mark Philippoussis and Patrick Rafter 7–6, 4–6, 6–4 in an all-Australian final.

Seeds
The first four seeds received a bye into the second round. • # 🇦🇺 Todd Woodbridge / 🇦🇺 Mark Woodforde (champions)

• # 🇷🇺 Yevgeny Kafelnikov / 🇨🇿 Daniel Vacek (second round)

• # 🇨🇦 Sébastien Lareau / 🇺🇸 Alex O'Brien (semifinals)

• # 🇨🇦 Daniel Nestor / 🇨🇿 Cyril Suk (quarterfinals)

• # Ellis Ferreira / 🇺🇸 Patrick Galbraith (quarterfinals)

• # 🇺🇸 Rick Leach / 🇺🇸 Jonathan Stark (first round)

• # 🇦🇺 Mark Philippoussis / 🇦🇺 Patrick Rafter (final)

• # 🇺🇸 Donald Johnson / 🇺🇸 Francisco Montana (second round)

Qualifying seeds
• # 🇺🇸 Kelly Jones / Byron Talbot (qualifying competition)

• # 🇺🇸 Kent Kinnear / 🇲🇰 Aleksandar Kitinov (first round)

• # 🇸🇪 Peter Nyborg / 🇸🇪 Mikael Tillström (qualifying competition)

• # 🇺🇸 Vince Spadea / 🇺🇸 Eric Taino (first round)

Qualifiers
• # 🇦🇺 Scott Draper / 🇦🇺 Jason Stoltenberg

• # 🇺🇸 Bob Bryan / 🇺🇸 Mike Bryan