1997 French Open – Men's singles qualifying

Men's singles qualifying
1997 French Open

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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

1. Albert Portas (Qualified)
2. Brett Steven (First round)
3. Nicolás Lapentti (Qualified)
4. Dinu Pescariu (First round)
5. Marcello Craca (First round)
6. Jens Knippschild (Qualified)
7. Juan-Antonio Marin (Second round)
8. Marcelo Charpentier (Qualifying Competition, Lucky loser)
9. Oleg Ogorodov (First round)
10. Lucas Arnold Ker (First round)
11. Justin Gimelstob (First round)
12. Filip Dewulf (Qualified)
13. Jaime Oncins (First round)
14. Frederik Fetterlein (Qualifying Competition, Lucky loser)
15. Fernando Vicente (Second round)
16. Răzvan Sabău (First round)
17. Andrey Cherkasov (Second round)
18. Jacobo Diaz-Ruiz (First round)
19. Alberto Martín (Qualified)
20. Eyal Ran (First round)
21. Mark Knowles (First round)
22. Dick Norman (Qualified)
23. Martin Stringari (Second round)
24. József Krocskó (Qualifying Competition, Lucky loser)
25. Gastón Etlis (Qualified)
26. Nicolás Pereira (Second round)
27. Andrei Merinov (Qualified)
28. Steve Bryan (Qualifying Competition)
29. Julián Alonso (Second round)
30. Lars Jonsson (First round)
31. Jeff Salzenstein (First round)
32. Fernon Wibier (Qualifying Competition)

Qualifiers

1. Albert Portas
2. Jordi Burillo
3. Nicolás Lapentti
4. Wayne Black
5. Andrei Merinov
6. Jens Knippschild
7. Rodolphe Gilbert
8. Gastón Etlis
9. Cristiano Caratti
10. Miguel Pastura
11. Dick Norman
12. Filip Dewulf
13. Wolfgang Schranz
14. Alberto Martín
15. Salvador Navarro
16. Ramón Delgado

Lucky losers

1. Marcelo Charpentier
2. Frederik Fetterlein
3. József Krocskó

Qualifying draw

Key

• Q = Qualifier
• WC = Wild card
• LL = Lucky loser
• Alt = Alternate
• SE = Special exempt
• PR = Protected ranking
• ITF = ITF entry
• JE = Junior exempt
• w/o = Walkover
• r = Retired
• d = Defaulted
• SR = Special ranking

External links

• 1997 French Open – Men's draws and results at the International Tennis Federation