1996 US Open – Men's singles qualifying

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

Seeds
• # 🇫🇷 Lionel Roux (second round)

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

• # -

• # Dennis van Scheppingen (first round)

• # Neville Godwin (qualified)

• # 🇮🇹 Cristiano Caratti (first round)

• # 🇦🇲 Sargis Sargsian (first round)

• # 🇪🇨 Luis Morejón (second round)

• # 🇮🇹 Gianluca Pozzi (qualified)

• # 🇲🇽 Alejandro Hernandez (second round)

• # 🇺🇸 Steve Bryan (first round)

• # 🇸🇳 Yahiya Doumbia (first round)

• # 🇩🇪 Lars Burgsmüller (first round)

• # 🇮🇳 Leander Paes (qualifying competition, lucky loser)

• # 🇦🇷 Franco Squillari (first round)

• # 🇦🇺 Ben Ellwood (qualified)

• # 🇧🇷 Roberto Jabali (qualifying competition, lucky loser)

• # 🇩🇪 Martin Sinner (qualifying competition)

• # 🇨🇿 David Škoch (qualifying competition, lucky loser)

• # 🇦🇷 Patricio Arnold (second round)

• # 🇻🇪 Jimy Szymanski (qualifying competition, lucky loser)

• # 🇮🇹 Vincenzo Santopadre (second round)

• # 🇫🇷 Gérard Solvès (first round)

• # 🇩🇪 Dirk Dier (qualified)

• # 🇩🇪 Jörn Renzenbrink (first round)

• # 🇪🇬 Tamer El-Sawy (qualified)

• # 🇬🇧 Danny Sapsford (qualifying competition)

• # 🇮🇱 Eyal Ran (second round)

• # 🇦🇷 Gastón Etlis (first round)

• # Jacco Eltingh (qualifying competition)

• # 🇪🇨 Pablo Campana (qualified)

• # 🇬🇧 Chris Wilkinson (second round)

Qualifiers
• # 🇪🇨 Pablo Campana

• # 🇺🇸 David Caldwell

• # Filippo Veglio

• # 🇧🇷 Jaime Oncins

• # Neville Godwin

• # David Nainkin

• # 🇦🇺 Pat Cash

• # 🇪🇬 Tamer El-Sawy

• # 🇮🇹 Gianluca Pozzi

• # 🇩🇪 Dirk Dier

• # 🇷🇴 Andrei Pavel

• # 🇩🇪 Tommy Haas

• # 🇫🇷 Frederic Vitoux

• # Ramón Delgado

• # 🇦🇺 Peter Tramacchi

• # 🇦🇺 Ben Ellwood

Lucky losers
• # 🇻🇪 Jimy Szymanski

• # 🇧🇷 Roberto Jabali

• # 🇮🇳 Leander Paes

• # 🇨🇿 David Škoch