1997 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
• # 🇮🇹 Gianluca Pozzi (first round)

• # 🇸🇪 Tomas Nydahl (second round)

• # 🇫🇷 Olivier Delaître (first round)

• # Wayne Black (qualified)

• # 🇺🇿 Oleg Ogorodov (qualified)

• # 🇨🇦 Sébastien Lareau (first round)

• # 🇫🇷 Nicolas Escudé (qualifying competition, lucky loser)

• # 🇷🇴 Ionuț Moldovan (second round)

• # 🇧🇪 Dick Norman (qualifying competition)

• # 🇩🇪 Bernd Karbacher (second round)

• # 🇷🇴 Răzvan Sabău (first round)

• # 🇺🇸 Geoff Grant (qualified)

• # 🇨🇦 Daniel Nestor (qualified)

• # 🇸🇪 Nicklas Kulti (first round)

• # Kevin Ullyett (first round)

• # 🇺🇸 Doug Flach (first round)

• # Fernon Wibier (qualifying competition)

• # 🇮🇱 Eyal Erlich (first round)

• # 🇷🇺 Andrei Merinov (first round)

• # Neville Godwin (first round)

• # 🇩🇪 Dirk Dier (qualifying competition)

• # 🇧🇷 Jaime Oncins (qualified)

• # 🇩🇪 Rainer Schüttler (second round)

• # 🇦🇷 Gastón Etlis (first round)

• # 🇦🇺 Allen Belobrajdic (qualifying competition)

• # 🇦🇺 Michael Tebbutt (qualified)

• # 🇮🇱 Eyal Ran (second round)

• # 🇨🇿 David Rikl (qualifying competition)

• # 🇲🇽 Luis Herrera (first round)

• # 🇧🇪 Christophe Van Garsse (qualifying competition)

• # 🇲🇽 Alejandro Hernandez (qualifying competition)

• # 🇮🇹 Cristiano Caratti (qualified)

Qualifiers
• # 🇮🇹 Cristiano Caratti

• # 🇩🇪 Patrick Baur

• # 🇫🇮 Tuomas Ketola

• # Wayne Black

• # 🇺🇿 Oleg Ogorodov

• # John van Lottum

• # 🇦🇺 Michael Tebbutt

• # 🇮🇹 Laurence Tieleman

• # 🇺🇸 Tommy Ho

• # 🇻🇪 Jimy Szymanski

• # 🇧🇷 Jaime Oncins

• # 🇺🇸 Geoff Grant

• # 🇨🇦 Daniel Nestor

• # 🇺🇸 Michael Sell

• # Peter Wessels

• # 🇦🇺 Todd Larkham

Lucky losers
• # 🇫🇷 Nicolas Escudé