See main article: 1997 DFS Classic. Elizabeth Smylie and Linda Wild were the defending champions but only Wild competed that year with Nathalie Tauziat.
Tauziat and Wild lost in the final 6–2, 6–3 against Katrina Adams and Larisa Savchenko.
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.