1988 French Open – Women's singles qualifying

Players who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual French Open Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held in the week before the event.

Seeds
• # 🇺🇸 Penny Barg (second round)

• # 🇬🇧 Clare Wood (qualifying competition, lucky loser)

• # 🇮🇹 Laura Lapi (second round)

• # 🇵🇪 Pilar Vásquez (second round)

• # 🇮🇹 Barbara Romanò (qualified)

• # 🇺🇸 Anna-Maria Fernandez (first round)

• # Nicole Muns-Jagerman (qualifying competition, lucky loser)

• # 🇧🇷 Andrea Vieira (first round)

• # Jana Pospíšilová (qualified)

• # 🇺🇸 Louise Allen (first round)

• # 🇯🇵 Akemi Nishiya (first round)

• # Carin Bakkum (first round)

• # Mariaan de Swardt (second round)

• # 🇳🇴 Amy Jönsson Raaholt (second round)

• # 🇺🇸 Melissa Brown (first round)

• # Simone Schilder (first round)

Qualifiers
• # 🇦🇷 Andrea Tiezzi

• # 🇮🇹 Barbara Romanò

• # 🇫🇷 Marie-Christine Damas

• # 🇪🇸 Conchita Martínez

• # 🇸🇪 Jonna Jonerup

• # Sabine Hack

• # 🇸🇪 Maria Strandlund

• # Jana Pospíšilová

Lucky losers
• # 🇧🇷 Luciano Corsato

• # Nicole Muns-Jagerman

• # 🇧🇪 Sabine Appelmans

• # 🇬🇧 Clare Wood