Rita Grande and Émilie Loit were the defending champions but only Grande competed that year with Emmanuelle Gagliardi.
This was the first edition of the tournament.
Julie Halard was the defending champion but did not compete that year.
Barbara Paulus was the defending champion but did not compete that year.
In the women's singles at the 1997 Budapest Lotto Open tennis tournament, Ruxandra Dragomir was the defending champion but lost in the second round to Joannette Kruger.
The 1997 Rexona Cup - Singles was a tennis event played on outdoor clay courts at the Am Rothenbaum in Hamburg, Germany. The 1997 Rexona Cup tournament was held from April 28 through May 4, 1997, and was part of Tier II of the 1997 WTA Tour.
Anke Huber was the defending champion but lost in the semifinals to Miriam Oremans.
Larisa Neiland and Brenda Schultz-McCarthy were the defending champions but only Neiland competed that year with Ruxandra Dragomir.
The women's doubles of the 1997 Skoda Czech Open tournament played on clay in Prague, Czech Republic.
Ruxandra Dragomir was the defending champion of the Volvo Women's Open but lost in the semifinals to Henrieta Nagyová.
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and Larisa Savchenko were the defending champions but did not compete that year.
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario was the defending champion and won in the final 5–7, 6–0, 6–2 against Iva Majoli.
Gigi Fernández and Natasha Zvereva were the defending champions but lost in the quarterfinals to Amanda Coetzer and Inés Gorrochategui.
Ruxandra Dragomir and Laura Garrone were the defending champions but only Garrone competed that year with Sandra Cecchini.
Elna Reinach was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Andrea Strnadová.
Manuela Maleeva-Fragnière and Leila Meskhi were the defending champions. Maleeva-Fragnière retired from tennis earlier that year, but only Meskhi competed that year with Eugenia Maniokova.
The women's doubles of the 1998 Skoda Czech Open tournament was played on clay in Prague, Czech Republic.
Ruxandra Dragomir and Inés Gorrochategui were the defending champions of the Warsaw Cup by Heros, a tennis tournament, but did not compete in 1998.
Gigi Fernández and Natalia Zvereva were the defending champions and beat Inés Gorrochategui and Helena Suková, 6–7, 6–4, 6–3, in the final to retain the title.
Defending champion Martina Hingis and her partner Mirjana Lučić defeated the other defending champion Natasha Zvereva and her partner Lindsay Davenport in the final, 6–4, 2–6, 6–3 to win the women's doubles tennis title at the 1998 Australian Open. It was the first step in an eventual Grand Slam for Hingis.
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