1996 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
• # 🇮🇹 Gloria Pizzichini (qualifying competition, lucky loser)

• # 🇦🇹 Melanie Schnell (qualifying competition, lucky loser)

• # 🇪🇸 Ángeles Montolio (qualified)

• # 🇮🇹 Francesca Lubiani (qualified)

• # 🇪🇸 Gala León García (qualified)

• # Dally Randriantefy (qualifying competition, lucky loser)

• # 🇺🇸 Corina Morariu (first round)

• # 🇨🇦 Jana Nejedly (qualified)

• # 🇨🇿 Sandra Kleinová (second round)

• # 🇮🇹 Flora Perfetti (qualified)

• # 🇫🇮 Nanne Dahlman (qualifying competition)

• # 🇮🇹 Sandra Cecchini (qualified)

• # 🇺🇸 Meilen Tu (first round)

• # 🇦🇹 Petra Schwarz (first round)

• # 🇺🇸 Erika deLone (second round)

• # 🇦🇺 Rachel McQuillan (qualified)

Qualifiers
• # 🇮🇹 Flora Perfetti

• # 🇮🇹 Sandra Cecchini

• # 🇮🇹 Francesca Lubiani

• # 🇪🇸 Gala León García

• # 🇨🇦 Jana Nejedly

• # 🇪🇸 Ángeles Montolio

• # 🇨🇿 Petra Langrová

• # 🇦🇺 Rachel McQuillan

Lucky losers
• # 🇮🇹 Gloria Pizzichini

• # 🇦🇹 Melanie Schnell

• # Dally Randriantefy