1997 Italian Open – Women's doubles
1997 tennis event results
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and Irina Spîrlea were the defending champions but only Spîrlea competed that year with Gigi Fernández .
Fernández and Spîrlea lost in the quarterfinals to Nicole Arendt and Manon Bollegraf .
Arendt and Bollegraf won in the final 6–2, 6–4 against Conchita Martínez and Patricia Tarabini .
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.
Draw
Key
Finals
Top half
Bottom half
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Grand Slam events Tier I tournaments Tier II tournaments
Sydney (S , D )
Paris (S , D )
Hanover (S , D )
Amelia Island (S , D )
Hamburg (S , D )
Eastbourne (S , D )
Stanford (S , D )
San Diego (S , D )
Los Angeles (S , D )
Atlanta (S , D )
Tokyo (S , D )
Leipzig (S , D )
Filderstadt (S , D )
Chicago (S , D )
Philadelphia (S , D )
Tier III tournaments
Gold Coast (S , D )
Linz (S , D )
Oklahoma City (S , D )
Tokyo Outdoor (S , D )
Strasbourg (S , D )
Madrid (S , D )
Birmingham (S , D )
Rosmalen (S , D )
Warsaw (S , D )
Quebec City (S , D )
Luxembourg (S , D )
Tier IV tournaments
Auckland (S , D )
Hobart (S , D )
Budapest (S , D )
Jakarta (S , D )
Bol (S , D )
Cardiff (S , D )
Prague (S , D )
Palermo (S , D )
Maria Lankowitz (S , D )
Surabaya (S , D )
Pattaya (S , D )
Team events