1998 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
• # 🇦🇷 Guillermo Cañas (second round)

• # 🇦🇷 Franco Squillari (second round)

• # 🇩🇪 Oliver Gross (qualifying competition, lucky loser)

• # 🇦🇷 Mariano Puerta (first round)

• # John van Lottum (qualified)

• # 🇮🇳 Leander Paes (qualifying competition)

• # 🇮🇹 Vincenzo Santopadre (qualifying competition)

• # 🇩🇪 Jens Knippschild (qualified)

• # 🇧🇷 André Sá (first round)

• # 🇺🇸 Justin Gimelstob (first round)

• # 🇩🇪 Rainer Schüttler (second round)

• # 🇷🇺 Marat Safin (qualified)

• # 🇦🇺 Andrew Ilie (qualified)

• # 🇷🇴 Adrian Voinea (first round)

• # 🇪🇸 Jacobo Diaz-Ruiz (second round)

• # Dennis van Scheppingen (first round)

• # 🇩🇪 Dirk Dier (first round)

• # 🇩🇪 Lars Burgsmüller (first round)

• # 🇦🇺 Sandon Stolle (qualifying competition)

• # 🇫🇮 Tuomas Ketola (first round)

• # 🇦🇷 Francisco Cabello (qualifying competition)

• # 🇮🇹 Cristiano Caratti (qualifying competition)

• # 🇧🇷 Márcio Carlsson (second round)

• # 🇦🇷 Sebastian Prieto (first round)

• # 🇮🇹 Marzio Martelli (qualified)

• # 🇪🇸 Óscar Burrieza (first round)

• # 🇺🇸 Jonathan Stark (second round)

• # 🇺🇸 Michael Sell (qualified)

• # 🇪🇸 Alex Lopez-Moron (first round)

• # 🇪🇸 Pepe Imaz (qualified)

• # 🇧🇪 Christophe Van Garsse (qualified)

• # 🇦🇺 Peter Tramacchi (second round)

Qualifiers
• # 🇧🇪 Christophe Van Garsse

• # 🇫🇷 Julien Boutter

• # 🇪🇸 Pepe Imaz

• # 🇩🇪 Bernd Karbacher

• # John van Lottum

• # 🇺🇸 Michael Sell

• # 🇮🇹 Marzio Martelli

• # 🇩🇪 Jens Knippschild

• # 🇮🇹 Mosé Navarra

• # 🇪🇸 Jordi Mas

• # 🇫🇷 Rodolphe Gilbert

• # 🇷🇺 Marat Safin

• # 🇦🇺 Andrew Ilie

• # 🇦🇹 Wolfgang Schranz

• # 🇦🇷 Mariano Zabaleta

• # 🇦🇷 Martin Rodriguez

Lucky losers
• # 🇩🇪 Oliver Gross