1997 US Open – Women'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
• # 🇨🇳 Fang Li (qualified)

• # 🇫🇷 Nathalie Dechy (qualified)

• # 🇨🇦 Sonya Jeyaseelan (first round)

• # 🇬🇧 Samantha Smith (qualified)

• # 🇲🇽 Angélica Gavaldón (qualified)

• # 🇯🇵 Mana Endo (first round)

• # 🇨🇿 Lenka Němečková (first round)

• # 🇦🇺 Siobhan Drake-Brockman (qualifying competition)

• # 🇩🇪 Marlene Weingärtner (second round)

• # 🇨🇦 Jana Nejedly (first round)

• # Seda Noorlander (second round)

• # 🇦🇺 Kristine Kunce (second round)

• # 🇯🇵 Haruka Inoue (first round)

• # 🇺🇦 Olga Lugina (qualified)

• # 🇦🇹 Sylvia Plischke (qualifying competition)

• # 🇦🇺 Nicole Pratt (qualified)

Qualifiers
• # 🇨🇳 Fang Li

• # 🇨🇿 Ludmila Richterová

• # 🇬🇧 Samantha Smith

• # 🇺🇦 Olga Lugina

• # 🇦🇺 Nicole Pratt

• # 🇧🇬 Pavlina Nola

• # 🇲🇽 Angélica Gavaldón

• # 🇫🇷 Nathalie Dechy