1997 Bausch & Lomb Championships – Doubles

1997 Bausch & Lomb Championships s USA Lindsay Davenport CZE Jana Novotná USA Nicole Arendt NED Manon Bollegraf 6–3, 6–0 singles doubles 28 (1 Q Qualifiers / 1 WC Wild Cards) 8 Bausch & Lomb Championships – Doubles Bausch & Lomb Championships – Doubles Amelia Island Championships 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.International Tennis Federation World of Tennis 1997 1997 CollinsWillow London 9780002187145 John Barrett 171, 173, 181–182 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. 30em LAT Larisa Savchenko / ESP Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (semifinals) USA Gigi Fernández / USA Mary Joe Fernández (semifinals) USA Lindsay Davenport / CZE Jana Novotná (champions) USA Nicole Arendt / NED Manon Bollegraf (final) USA Katrina Adams / NED Caroline Vis (quarterfinals) ESP Conchita Martínez / ARG Patricia Tarabini (quarterfinals) USA Angela Lettiere / JPN Nana Miyagi (first round) USA Chanda Rubin / NED Brenda Schultz-McCarthy (quarterfinals) Draw Final 3 Final 4 USA Nicole Arendt NED Manon Bollegraf 3 0   3 USA Lindsay Davenport CZE Jana Novotná 6 6   Top half y 3 1 First round Second round Quarterfinals Semifinals   UKR O Lugina GER E Wagner 6 6     ARG F Labat RUS E Likhovtseva 4 3   WC GER W Probst SUI P Schnyder w/o       GER A Huber USA M Seles       LL CZE P Langrová FRA S Pitkowski 3 2   8 USA C Rubin NED B Schultz-McCarthy 6 6     CAN P Hy-Boulais CRO M Murić 2 1     POL M Grzybowska TPE S-T Wang 6 6     USA A Grossman USA T Whitlinger-Jones 6 6     USA L McNeil CAN R Simpson 3 3     ARG L Montalvo SVK H Nagyová 6 1 4 6 ESP C Martínez ARG P Tarabini 0 6 6 1 LAT L Savchenko ESP A Sánchez Vicario 6 6     UKR O Lugina GER E Wagner 4 4   WC GER W Probst SUI P Schnyder 2 2   8 USA C Rubin NED B Schultz-McCarthy 6 6   4 USA N Arendt NED M Bollegraf 7 3 7   POL M Grzybowska TPE S-T Wang 5 6 5   USA A Grossman USA T Whitlinger-Jones 3 4   6 ESP C Martínez ARG P Tarabini 6 6   1 LAT L Savchenko ESP A Sánchez Vicario 1     8 USA C Rubin NED B Schultz-McCarthy 1 r   4 USA N Arendt NED M Bollegraf 6 6   6 ESP C Martínez ARG P Tarabini 2 4   1 LAT L Savchenko ESP A Sánchez Vicario 6 6 2 4 USA N Arendt NED M Bollegraf 4 7 6 Bottom half y 3 1 First round Second round Quarterfinals Semifinals 7 USA A Lettiere JPN N Miyagi 5 4     ROM R Dragomir CRO I Majoli 7 6     FRA A Fusai ARG M Paz 6 7     ROM C Cristea GRE C Papadáki 4 6     SLO T Križan FRA N van Lottum 7 1 6 Q FR Yugoslavia T Ječmenica AUT K Kschwendt 5 6 1 5 USA K Adams NED C Vis 7 4 6   ITA S Farina AUT B Schett 5 6 3   AUS L Pleming GBR C Wood 1 2     RSA A Coetzer ARG I Gorrochategui 6 6     CZE E Martincová AUS R McQuillan 6 6     GER S Meier AUT P Schwarz 2 4     ROM R Dragomir CRO I Majoli 6 6     FRA A Fusai ARG M Paz 4 4     SLO T Križan FRA N van Lottum 1 1   3 USA L Davenport CZE J Novotná 6 6   5 USA K Adams NED C Vis 7 6     RSA A Coetzer ARG I Gorrochategui 6 3     CZE E Martincová AUS R McQuillan 2 3   2 USA G Fernández USA M J Fernández 6 6     ROM R Dragomir CRO I Majoli 0 3   3 USA L Davenport CZE J Novotná 6 6   5 USA K Adams NED C Vis 1 6 2 2 USA G Fernández USA M J Fernández 6 1 6 3 USA L Davenport CZE J Novotná 6 5 7 2 USA G Fernández USA M J Fernández 3 7 5 References External links ITF tournament edition details 1997 Doubles Category:1997 WTA Tour