2000 Stuttgart Masters – Singles

Wayne Ferreira defeated Lleyton Hewitt in the final, 7–6(8–6), 3–6, 6–7(5–7), 7–6 (7–2), 6–2 to win the singles tennis title at the 2000 Eurocard Open. With the win, Ferreira ended a 4-year drought in his professional career, after winning his last tournament at Toronto in 1996.

Thomas Enqvist was the defending champion, but lost to Ferreira in the second round.

Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. All sixteen seeds received a bye into the second round.


 * 1) 🇷🇺 Marat Safin (third round)
 * 2) 🇧🇷 Gustavo Kuerten (third round)
 * 3) 🇸🇪 Magnus Norman (third round)
 * 4) 🇺🇸 Andre Agassi (third round)
 * 5) 🇸🇪 Thomas Enqvist (second round)
 * 6) 🇷🇺 Yevgeny Kafelnikov (semifinals)
 * 7) 🇪🇸 Álex Corretja (second round)
 * 8) 🇦🇺 Lleyton Hewitt (final)
 * 9) 🇬🇧 Tim Henman (third round)
 * 10) 🇪🇸 Juan Carlos Ferrero (second round)
 * 11) 🇦🇷 Franco Squillari (third round)
 * 12) 🇦🇺 Mark Philippoussis (third round)
 * 13) 🇩🇪 Nicolas Kiefer (withdrew)
 * 14) 🇦🇺 Patrick Rafter (second round)
 * 15) 🇪🇨 Nicolás Lapentti (second round)
 * 16) 🇦🇷 Mariano Puerta (second round)

Qualifying seeds
• # Sjeng Schalken (qualifying competition, lucky loser)

• # 🇧🇾 Max Mirnyi (first round)

• # 🇪🇸 Álex Calatrava (qualifying competition)

• # 🇫🇷 Arnaud Di Pasquale (qualifying competition)

• # 🇸🇪 Thomas Johansson (qualified)

• # 🇨🇿 Jiří Vaněk (qualifying competition)

• # 🇦🇺 Wayne Arthurs (first round)

• # 🇨🇿 Bohdan Ulihrach (first round)

• # 🇫🇷 Julien Boutter (qualified)

• # 🇪🇸 Alberto Martín (qualified)

• # Ivan Ljubičić (qualifying competition)

• # 🇩🇪 Daniel Elsner (first round)

Qualifiers
• # 🇩🇪 Björn Phau

• # 🇩🇪 Jens Knippschild

• # 🇪🇸 Alberto Martín

• # 🇫🇷 Julien Boutter

• # 🇸🇪 Thomas Johansson

• # 🇩🇪 Christian Vinck

Lucky loser

 * 1)  Sjeng Schalken