Alejandro Falla Ramírez is a retired professional male tennis player from Colombia. The left-hander turned pro in 2000 and achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 48 in July 2012. At the 2006 Wimbledon tournament, Falla upset 9th seed Nikolay Davydenko and at the 2007 Sony Ericsson Open he beat 9th seed Tommy Haas in straight sets. He reached the semifinals of the Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon in 2007, beating players such as the 5th seed Ivan Ljubičić.
Tomás Carbonell won in the final 7–6(14–12), 5–7, 6–2 against Christian Miniussi.
Jérôme Golmard was the defending champion but lost in the second round to Adrian Voinea.
Horacio de la Peña was the defending champion, but did not participate this year.
Andre Agassi defeated Tommy Haas in the final, 6–3, 6–3, 6–0 to win the men's singles tennis title at the 2002 Italian Open.
Markus Zoecke is a German former professional tennis player. Zoecke's primary weapon was a powerful serve that he could hit thanks to his height. He reached a highest singles ranking of No. 48 in March 1992. During his career he won one singles and one doubles title. He played three matches for the German Davis Cup team in 1992 and 1995.
Mariano Puerta was the defending champion but did not compete that year.
Jörn Renzenbrink is a retired professional tennis player from Germany.
Markus Hipfl is a former professional tennis player from Austria.
Gabriel Markus is a former professional tennis player from Argentina.
Eduardo Nicolás Espin is a former professional tennis player from Spain.
Adrian Voinea was the defending champion, but did not participate.
This article displays the qualifying draw for the Men's Singles at the 2001 French Open.
This article displays the qualifying draw for the Men's Singles at the 2000 Australian Open.
Alberto Martín was the defending champion but lost in the quarterfinals to Markus Hantschk.
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.
Karel Nováček was the defending champion but chose to compete in Hilversum at the same week, winning the tournament.
Tomás Carbonell and Francisco Roig were the defending champions, but Carbonell did not compete this year. Roig teamed up with Diego Pérez and lost in the semifinals to Horacio de la Peña and Vojtěch Flégl.
Christian Saceanu was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Richard Krajicek.
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