The 100th French Open 2001 took place from May 28th to June 10th 2001 in Paris , France .
In the main round 128 men and women took part in the individual competitions, in the doubles competitions the field of participants was limited to 64 pairings each.
Gustavo Kuerten defended his title in the men's singles and won the third and last Grand Slam title of his career. In the women's singles, Jennifer Capriati , who had already been in the semi-finals here in 1990 and is now celebrating a comeback, won the women's singles . As in 1999, Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes won the men's doubles, Virginia Ruano Pascual and Paola Suárez won the ladies doubles . Ruano also won the mixed title, alongside Tomás Carbonell .