Gustavo Kuerten defeated Hicham Arazi in the final, 6–3, 6–2, 6–4 to win the singles tennis title at the 2001 Monte Carlo Masters. Cédric Pioline was the defending champion, but lost in the third round to Arazi.

Seeds

• # 🇷🇺 Marat Safin (first round) • # 🇧🇷 Gustavo Kuerten (champion) • # 🇸🇪 Magnus Norman (second round) • # 🇷🇺 Yevgeny Kafelnikov (first round) • # 🇪🇸 Àlex Corretja (first round) • # 🇫🇷 Arnaud Clément (first round) • # 🇪🇸 Juan Carlos Ferrero (second round) • # 🇬🇧 Tim Henman (quarterfinals) • # 🇫🇷 Sébastien Grosjean (semifinals) • # 🇸🇰 Dominik Hrbatý (first round) • # 🇸🇪 Thomas Enqvist (second round) • # 🇦🇷 Franco Squillari (second round) • # Wayne Ferreira (first round) • # 🇫🇷 Cédric Pioline (third round) • # Roger Federer (quarterfinals) • # 🇪🇸 Carlos Moyá (second round)

Draw

Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Bottom half

Section 3

Section 4

Qualifying

Qualifying seeds

• # Nicolás Massú (first round) • # 🇪🇸 Joan Balcells (qualified) • # 🇪🇸 Alberto Martín (qualified) • # 🇦🇷 Agustín Calleri (qualifying competition) • # 🇸🇰 Karol Kučera (qualified) • # Ivan Ljubičić (qualified) • # 🇦🇷 Mariano Zabaleta (first round) • # 🇸🇪 Magnus Gustafsson (qualified) • # 🇪🇸 Galo Blanco (qualified) • # Michel Kratochvil (qualifying competition) • # Jan Siemerink (first round) • # 🇷🇺 Mikhail Youzhny (qualified) • # 🇫🇷 Antony Dupuis (qualifying competition) • # 🇨🇿 Sláva Doseděl (first round) • # 🇷🇺 Andrei Stoliarov (first round) • # 🇦🇲 Sargis Sargsian (first round)

Qualifiers

• # 🇦🇹 Markus Hipfl • # 🇪🇸 Joan Balcells • # 🇪🇸 Alberto Martín • # 🇷🇺 Mikhail Youzhny • # 🇸🇰 Karol Kučera • # Ivan Ljubičić • # 🇪🇸 Galo Blanco • # 🇸🇪 Magnus Gustafsson

Qualifying draw

First qualifier

Second qualifier

Third qualifier

Fourth qualifier

Fifth qualifier

Sixth qualifier

Seventh qualifier

Eighth qualifier