1997 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
• # 🇪🇸 Albert Portas (qualified)

• # 🇳🇿 Brett Steven (first round)

• # 🇪🇨 Nicolás Lapentti (qualified)

• # 🇷🇴 Dinu Pescariu (first round)

• # 🇩🇪 Marcello Craca (first round)

• # 🇩🇪 Jens Knippschild (qualified)

• # Juan-Antonio Marin (second round)

• # 🇦🇷 Marcelo Charpentier (qualifying competition, lucky loser)

• # 🇺🇿 Oleg Ogorodov (first round)

• # 🇦🇷 Lucas Arnold Ker (first round)

• # 🇺🇸 Justin Gimelstob (first round)

• # 🇧🇪 Filip Dewulf (qualified)

• # 🇧🇷 Jaime Oncins (first round)

• # Frederik Fetterlein (qualifying competition, lucky loser)

• # 🇪🇸 Fernando Vicente (second round)

• # 🇷🇴 Răzvan Sabău (first round)

• # 🇷🇺 Andrey Cherkasov (second round)

• # 🇪🇸 Jacobo Diaz-Ruiz (first round)

• # 🇪🇸 Alberto Martín (qualified)

• # 🇮🇱 Eyal Ran (first round)

• # Mark Knowles (first round)

• # 🇧🇪 Dick Norman (qualified)

• # 🇦🇷 Martin Stringari (second round)

• # 🇭🇺 József Krocskó (qualifying competition, lucky loser)

• # 🇦🇷 Gastón Etlis (qualified)

• # 🇻🇪 Nicolás Pereira (second round)

• # 🇷🇺 Andrei Merinov (qualified)

• # 🇺🇸 Steve Bryan (qualifying competition)

• # 🇪🇸 Julián Alonso (second round)

• # 🇸🇪 Lars Jonsson (first round)

• # 🇺🇸 Jeff Salzenstein (first round)

• # Fernon Wibier (qualifying competition)

Qualifiers
• # 🇪🇸 Albert Portas

• # 🇪🇸 Jordi Burillo

• # 🇪🇨 Nicolás Lapentti

• # Wayne Black

• # 🇷🇺 Andrei Merinov

• # 🇩🇪 Jens Knippschild

• # 🇫🇷 Rodolphe Gilbert

• # 🇦🇷 Gastón Etlis

• # 🇮🇹 Cristiano Caratti

• # 🇦🇷 Miguel Pastura

• # 🇧🇪 Dick Norman

• # 🇧🇪 Filip Dewulf

• # 🇦🇹 Wolfgang Schranz

• # 🇪🇸 Alberto Martín

• # 🇪🇸 Salvador Navarro

• # Ramón Delgado

Lucky losers
• # 🇦🇷 Marcelo Charpentier

• # Frederik Fetterlein

• # 🇭🇺 József Krocskó