1997 Open Gaz de France – Doubles

Kristie Boogert and Jana Novotná were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Boogert with Irina Spîrlea and Novotná with Martina Hingis.

Doubles
1997 Open Gaz de France
1996 Champions Kristie Boogert
Jana Novotná
Champions Martina Hingis
Jana Novotná
Runners-up Alexandra Fusai
Rita Grande
Final score6–3, 6–0

Boogert and Spîrlea lost in the first round to Sabine Appelmans and Miriam Oremans.

Hingis and Novotná won in the final 6–3, 6–0 against Alexandra Fusai and Rita Grande.

Seeds

Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.

  1. Martina Hingis / Jana Novotná (Champions)
  2. Larisa Savchenko / Nathalie Tauziat (Quarterfinals)
  3. Nicole Arendt / Manon Bollegraf (First Round)
  4. Yayuk Basuki / Caroline Vis (Quarterfinals)

Draw

Key
First Round Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
1 M Hingis
J Novotná 		6 6  
  E Likhovtseva
O Lugina 		3 3   1 M Hingis
J Novotná 		6 6  
Q A-G Sidot
M Strandlund 		2 6 3   A Huber
I Majoli 		4 0  
  A Huber
I Majoli 		6 4 6 1 M Hingis
J Novotná 		6 2 6
4 Y Basuki
C Vis 		4 7 6   S Appelmans
M Oremans 		0 6 0
  T Križan
N van Lottum 		6 5 4 4 Y Basuki
C Vis 		1 6 5
  K Boogert
I Spîrlea 		2 5     S Appelmans
M Oremans 		6 3 7
  S Appelmans
M Oremans 		6 7   1 Martina Hingis
Jana Novotná 		6 6  
  Å Carlsson
F Labat 		3 6 1   Alexandra Fusai
Rita Grande 		3 0  
  S Farina
B Schett 		6 3 6   S Farina
B Schett 		7 1 6
  C Rubin
B Schultz-McCarthy 		2 7 7   C Rubin
B Schultz-McCarthy 		5 6 4
3 N Arendt
M Bollegraf 		6 6 6   S Farina
B Schett 		1 2  
  A Fusai
R Grande 		6 4 6   A Fusai
R Grande 		6 6  
  E Callens
A Ellwood 		2 6 3   A Fusai
R Grande 		6 4 6
  A Dechaume-Balleret
S Testud 		2 6   2 L Savchenko
N Tauziat 		3 6 2
2 L Savchenko
N Tauziat 		6 7  
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