Soft tennis at the 2006 Asian Games | |
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Venue | Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex |
Dates | 2–8 December 2006 |
Competitors | 67 from 10 nations |
Soft tennis was a discipline of the tennis competitions at the 2006 Asian Games. Competition took place from December 2 to December 8. All events were held at Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex.
Singles, Doubles, and Team events were held in this competition, Chinese Taipei finished first in medal table by winning three gold medals.
P | Preliminary rounds | ¼ | Quarterfinals | ½ | Semifinals | F | Finals |
Event↓/Date → | 2nd Sat | 3rd Sun | 4th Mon | 5th Tue | 6th Wed | 7th Thu | 8th Fri | |||||||||||
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Men's singles | P | ¼ | ½ | F | ||||||||||||||
Men's doubles | P | ¼ | ½ | F | ||||||||||||||
Men's team | P | ¼ | ½ | F | ||||||||||||||
Women's singles | P | ¼ | ½ | F | ||||||||||||||
Women's doubles | P | ¼ | ½ | F | ||||||||||||||
Women's team | P | ¼ | ½ | F | ||||||||||||||
Mixed doubles | P | ¼ | ½ | F |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's singles | Wang Chun-yen Chinese Taipei | Hidenori Shinohara Japan | Nam Taek-ho South Korea |
Men's doubles | Chinese Taipei Li Chia-hung Yang Sheng-fa | South Korea Kim Jae-bok You Young-dong | Japan Shigeo Nakahori Tsuneo Takagawa |
Men's team | Japan Noaya Hanada Tatsuro Kawamura Shigeo Nakahori Hidenori Shinohara Tsuneo Takagawa | Chinese Taipei Li Chia-hung Lin Shun-wu Wang Chun-yen Yang Sheng-fa Yeh Chia-lin | South Korea Jong Young-pal Kim Jae-bok Nam Taek-ho We Hyu-hwan You Young-dong |
Women's singles | Chiang Wan-chi Chinese Taipei | Jiang Ting China | Miwa Tsuji Japan |
Women's doubles | Japan Harumi Gyokusen Ayumi Ueshima | Japan Hiromi Hamanaka Miwa Tsuji | South Korea Kim Kyung-ryun Lee Kyung-pyo |
Women's team | South Korea Kim Ji-eun Kim Kyung-ryun Lee Bok-soon Lee Kyung-pyo Min Soo-kyoung | Japan Harumi Gyokusen Hiromi Hamanaka Miwa Tsuji Eri Uehara Ayumi Ueshima | Chinese Taipei Chiang Wan-chi Chou Chiu-ping Fang Yen-ling Lan Yi-yun Yang Hui-ju |
Mixed doubles | South Korea We Hyu-hwan Kim Ji-eun | South Korea You Young-dong Kim Kyung-ryun | Japan Tsuneo Takagawa Harumi Gyokusen |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
2 | Japan (JPN) | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
3 | South Korea (KOR) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
4 | China (CHN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Totals (4 entries) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 |
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