1997 US Open – Men's singles qualifying

Men's singles qualifying
1997 US Open

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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

1. Gianluca Pozzi (First round)
2. Tomas Nydahl (Second round)
3. Olivier Delaître (First round)
4. Wayne Black (Qualified)
5. Oleg Ogorodov (Qualified)
6. Sébastien Lareau (First round)
7. Nicolas Escudé (Qualifying Competition, Lucky loser)
8. Ionuț Moldovan (Second round)
9. Dick Norman (Qualifying Competition)
10. Bernd Karbacher (Second round)
11. Răzvan Sabău (First round)
12. Geoff Grant (Qualified)
13. Daniel Nestor (Qualified)
14. Nicklas Kulti (First round)
15. Kevin Ullyett (First round)
16. Doug Flach (First round)
17. Fernon Wibier (Qualifying Competition)
18. Eyal Erlich (First round)
19. Andrei Merinov (First round)
20. Neville Godwin (First round)
21. Dirk Dier (Qualifying Competition)
22. Jaime Oncins (Qualified)
23. Rainer Schüttler (Second round)
24. Gastón Etlis (First round)
25. Allen Belobrajdic (Qualifying Competition)
26. Michael Tebbutt (Qualified)
27. Eyal Ran (Second round)
28. David Rikl (Qualifying Competition)
29. Luis Herrera (First round)
30. Christophe Van Garsse (Qualifying Competition)
31. Alejandro Hernandez (Qualifying Competition)
32. Cristiano Caratti (Qualified)

Qualifiers

1. Cristiano Caratti
2. Patrick Baur
3. Tuomas Ketola
4. Wayne Black
5. Oleg Ogorodov
6. John van Lottum
7. Michael Tebbutt
8. Laurence Tieleman
9. Tommy Ho
10. Jimy Szymanski
11. Jaime Oncins
12. Geoff Grant
13. Daniel Nestor
14. Michael Sell
15. Peter Wessels
16. Todd Larkham

Lucky losers

1. Nicolas Escudé

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 US Open – Men's draws and results at the International Tennis Federation