The 1997 Canadian Open (also known as the du Maurier Open for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis

Tennis

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 tournament played on outdoor hard courts

Hardcourt

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. It was the 110th edition of the Canada Masters

Canada Masters

The Canada Masters , currently sponsored as the Rogers Cup, is an annual tennis tournament held in Canada. The men's competition is a Masters 1000 event on the Association of Tennis Professionals tour. The women's competition is a Premier 5 tournament on the Women's Tennis Association tour...

 and was part of the ATP Super 9

ATP Masters Series

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 of the 1997 ATP Tour

1997 ATP Tour

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 and of Tier I

WTA Tier I tournaments

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 of the 1997 WTA Tour

1997 WTA Tour

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. The men's event took place at the du Maurier Stadium in Montreal

Montreal

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, Canada

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 from July 28 through August 4, 1997 while the women's event took place at the National Tennis Centre

National Tennis Centre (Canada)

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 in Toronto

Toronto

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, Canada

Canada

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 from August 11 through August 17, 1997.

Men's Singles

  Chris Woodruff

Chris Woodruff

Chris Woodruff is an American former professional male tennis player. He hails from Knoxville, Tennessee and was trained at the Knoxville Racquet Club.- College career :...

defeated   Gustavo Kuerten

Gustavo Kuerten

Gustavo Kuerten is a retired former World No. 1 tennis player from Brazil. He won the French Open three times between 1997 and 2001, and was the Tennis Masters Cup champion in 2000...

 7–5, 4–6, 6–3

• It was Woodruff's only title of the year and the 1st of his career.

Women's Singles

  Monica Seles

Monica Seles

Monica Seles is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. She was born in Novi Sad, Serbia, former Yugoslavia to Hungarian parents. She became a naturalized United States citizen in 1994 and also received Hungarian citizenship in June 2007...

defeated   Anke Huber

Anke Huber

Anke Huber is a German retired professional tennis player. She was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1996 Australian Open. Her career-high singles ranking was fourth, also in 1996.-Early life:...

 6–2, 6–4

• It was Seles' 2nd title of the year and the 44th of her career. It was her 1st Tier I title of the year and her 7th overall. It was her 3rd consecutive title at the event after winning in 1995
  1995 Canadian Open (tennis)
  The 1995 Canadian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts that was part of the Super 9 of the 1995 ATP Tour, and of Tier I of the 1995 WTA Tour...
  
   and 1996
  1996 du Maurier Open
  The 1996 du Maurier Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 110th edition of the Canada Masters and was part of the Mercedes Super 9 of the 1996 ATP Tour and of Tier I of the 1996 WTA Tour...
  
  .

Men's Doubles

  Mahesh Bhupathi

Mahesh Bhupathi

Mahesh Shrinivas Bhupathi is an Indian professional tennis player widely regarded as among the best doubles players in the world with 11 Grand Slam titles to his credit. In 1997, he became the first Indian to win a Grand Slam tournament...

/   Leander Paes

Leander Paes

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defeated   Sébastien Lareau

Sébastien Lareau

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 /   Alex O'Brien

Alex O'Brien

Alex O'Brien is a professional tennis player from the United States, who competed on the ATP Tour. He was the No. 1 doubles player in the world and was ranked as high as 30 in the world in singles .He won his only singles title at New Haven, Connecticut, in 1996...

 7–6, 6–3

• It was Bhupathi's 3rd title of the year and the 3rd of his career. It was Paes' 3rd title of the year and the 3rd of his career.

Women's Doubles

  Yayuk Basuki

Yayuk Basuki

Yayuk Basuki is a professional tennis player from Indonesia. She is the highest-ever ranked tennis player from Indonesia, having reached #19 in the Women's Tennis Association singles rankings in October 1997...

/   Caroline Vis

Caroline Vis

Caroline Vis is a retired professional tennis player from the Netherlands. Vis turned pro in 1989. A doubles specialist, Vis won nine titles during her career on the WTA Tour. She reached the mixed doubles final at the 1991 French Open, playing with countryman Paul Haarhuis. Her career-high...

defeated   Nicole Arendt

Nicole Arendt

Nicole J. Arendt is an American professional tennis player. Arendt won sixteen doubles titles in her career. The left-hander reached her highest singles ranking on the WTA Tour on June 16, 1997, when she was ranked forty-ninth in the world...

 /   Manon Bollegraf

Manon Bollegraf

Manon Maria Bollegraf is a former professional female tennis player from the Netherlands, who finished fourth in women's doubles at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.-History:...

3–6, 7–5, 6–4

• It was Basuki's 2nd title of the year and the 13th of her career. It was Vis' 2nd title of the year and the 4th of her career.

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