Soft tennis was a discipline of the tennis competitions at the 1998 Asian Games. Competition took place from December 11 to December 15. All events were held at the Tennis Field 3 in Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Soft tennis at the 1998 Asian Games | |
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Venue | Thammasat Tennis Field |
Dates | 11–15 December 1998 |
Competitors | 86 from 11 nations |
There were four doubles and team events at the competition.
Schedule
editP | Preliminary rounds | ¼ | Quarterfinals | ½ | Semifinals | F | Finals |
Event↓/Date → | 11th Fri |
12th Sat |
13th Sun |
14th Mon |
15th Tue | ||||
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Men's doubles | P | ¼ | ½ | F | |||||
Men's team | P | P | ½ | F | |||||
Women's doubles | P | ¼ | ½ | F | |||||
Women's team | P | P | ½ | F |
Medalists
editEvent | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's doubles |
Chinese Taipei Kuo Hsu-tung Fang Tung-hsien |
Chinese Taipei Liao Nan-kai Yeh I-ming |
South Korea Jun In-soo You Young-dong |
Men's team |
South Korea Choi Ji-hun Jun In-soo Kim Hee-soo Kim Kyung-han You Young-dong |
Chinese Taipei Fang Tung-hsien Kuo Hsu-tung Liao Nan-kai Sie Shun-feng Yeh I-ming |
Japan Takahisa Hirayama Hideyuki Kitamoto Shigeo Nakahori Hironobu Saito Tsuneo Takagawa |
Women's doubles |
South Korea Kang Ji-sook Lee Mi-kyung |
Chinese Taipei Lin Li-jung Cheng Shu-chen |
Japan Naoko Higashi Yuko Miyaji |
Women's team |
South Korea Kang Ji-sook Lee Mi-hwa Lee Mi-kyung Yang Kum-yo Yoon Sun-kyung |
Japan Naoko Higashi Satoko Ishikawa Yuko Miyaji Shino Mizukami Tomoka Oku |
Chinese Taipei Chang Shu-chuan Cheng Shu-chen Hsu I-chia Lin Li-jung Lin Mei-ling |
Medal table
editRank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | South Korea (KOR) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
2 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
3 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Totals (3 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
Participating nations
editA total of 86 athletes from 11 nations competed in soft tennis at the 1998 Asian Games:
- China (10)
- Chinese Taipei (10)
- Japan (10)
- Kazakhstan (4)
- Maldives (5)
- Mongolia (8)
- Nepal (5)
- Philippines (10)
- South Korea (10)
- Thailand (10)
- Vietnam (4)