1997 Lipton Championships – Women's doubles

Jana Novotná and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Novotná with Lindsay Davenport and Sánchez Vicario with Natasha Zvereva.

Davenport and Novotná lost in the third round to Sabine Appelmans and Miriam Oremans.

Sánchez Vicario and Zvereva won in the final 6–2, 6–3 against Appelmans and Oremans.

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

• # 🇪🇸 Arantxa Sánchez Vicario / 🇧🇾 Natasha Zvereva (champions)

• # Larisa Neiland / 🇨🇿 Helena Suková (third round)

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

• # 🇺🇸 Mary Joe Fernández / Martina Hingis (semifinals)

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

• # 🇫🇷 Nathalie Tauziat / 🇺🇸 Linda Wild (quarterfinals)

• # 🇦🇷 Patricia Tarabini / Caroline Vis (quarterfinals)

• # 🇯🇵 Naoko Kijimuta / 🇯🇵 Nana Miyagi (quarterfinals)

• # 🇺🇸 Amy Frazier / 🇺🇸 Kimberly Po (second round)

• # 🇺🇸 Katrina Adams / Mariaan de Swardt (second round)

• # 🇧🇪 Sabine Appelmans / Miriam Oremans (final)

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

• # 🇫🇷 Alexandra Fusai / 🇦🇷 Mercedes Paz (third round)

• # 🇫🇷 Alexia Dechaume-Balleret / 🇫🇷 Sandrine Testud (third round)

• # 🇮🇹 Silvia Farina / 🇦🇹 Barbara Schett (second round)

• # 🇯🇵 Rika Hiraki / 🇦🇷 Florencia Labat (third round)