1996 French Open – Men'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
• # 🇸🇪 Nicklas Kulti (qualifying competition, lucky loser)

• # 🇸🇰 Ján Krošlák (qualified)

• # 🇲🇦 Hicham Arazi (second round)

• # 🇷🇺 Andrei Olhovskiy (qualified)

• # 🇪🇸 Galo Blanco (qualified)

• # 🇸🇪 Magnus Norman (qualifying competition, lucky loser)

• # 🇮🇹 Cristiano Caratti (first round)

• # 🇩🇪 Alex Rădulescu (first round)

• # 🇩🇪 Dirk Dier (qualified)

• # 🇪🇨 Luis Morejón (second round)

• # 🇩🇪 Lars Burgsmüller (first round)

• # 🇧🇪 Dick Norman (qualified)

• # 🇧🇷 Gustavo Kuerten (qualified)

• # 🇬🇧 Chris Wilkinson (first round)

• # 🇦🇷 Gastón Etlis (qualified)

• # 🇸🇪 Patrik Fredriksson (qualified)

• # 🇸🇳 Yahiya Doumbia (second round)

• # 🇦🇺 Andrew Ilie (qualifying competition)

• # 🇷🇺 Andrey Cherkasov (second round)

• # 🇨🇦 Daniel Nestor (qualifying competition)

• # 🇪🇸 Tati Rascón (first round)

• # 🇲🇽 Alejandro Hernandez (first round)

• # 🇸🇪 Tomas Nydahl (first round)

• # 🇩🇪 Patrick Baur (first round)

• # 🇪🇸 Emilio Benfele Álvarez (second round)

• # 🇦🇷 Mariano Zabaleta (second round)

• # 🇺🇸 Jared Palmer (qualified)

• # 🇮🇹 Diego Nargiso (first round)

• # 🇪🇸 Óscar Martínez (qualifying competition)

• # 🇫🇷 Frédéric Vitoux (second round)

• # 🇪🇸 Albert Portas (first round)

• # 🇪🇸 Ignacio Truyol-Turrion (second round)

Qualifiers
• # 🇦🇷 Franco Squillari

• # 🇸🇰 Ján Krošlák

• # 🇫🇷 Frédéric Fontang

• # 🇷🇺 Andrei Olhovskiy

• # 🇪🇸 Galo Blanco

• # 🇺🇸 Jared Palmer

• # 🇫🇮 Kim Tiilikainen

• # 🇦🇺 Grant Doyle

• # 🇩🇪 Dirk Dier

• # 🇺🇸 Francisco Montana

• # 🇪🇸 Jacobo Diaz-Ruiz

• # 🇧🇪 Dick Norman

• # 🇧🇷 Gustavo Kuerten

• # 🇪🇬 Tamer El-Sawy

• # 🇦🇷 Gastón Etlis

• # 🇸🇪 Patrik Fredriksson

Lucky losers
• # 🇸🇪 Magnus Norman

• # 🇸🇪 Nicklas Kulti