Sébastien Grosjean defeated Yevgeny Kafelnikov in the final, 7–6(7–3), 6–1, 6–7(5–7), 6–4 to win the singles tennis title at the 2001 Paris Masters. Marat Safin was the defending champion, but lost in the third round to Andreas Vinciguerra.

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. • # 🇧🇷 Gustavo Kuerten (third round) • # 🇦🇺 Lleyton Hewitt (second round) • # 🇪🇸 Juan Carlos Ferrero (third round) • # 🇷🇺 Yevgeny Kafelnikov (final) • # 🇷🇺 Marat Safin (third round) • # 🇫🇷 Sébastien Grosjean (champion) • # 🇩🇪 Tommy Haas (semifinals) • # 🇬🇧 Tim Henman (second round) • # 🇪🇸 Àlex Corretja (second round) • # Roger Federer (second round) • # 🇫🇷 Arnaud Clément (second round) • # Goran Ivanišević (second round) • # 🇺🇸 Andy Roddick (second round) • # 🇦🇷 Guillermo Cañas (second round) • # 🇸🇪 Thomas Johansson (quarterfinals) • # 🇫🇷 Fabrice Santoro (second round)

Draw

Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Bottom half

Section 3

Section 4