Soft tennis at the 2014 Asian Games | |
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Venue | Yeorumul Tennis Courts |
Dates | 29 September – 4 October |
Competitors | 87 from 13 nations |
Soft tennis at the 2014 Asian Games was held in Incheon, South Korea from September 29 to October 4, 2014. All events were held at the Yeorumul Tennis Courts.
Soft tennis is a racket game played on a court of two halves, separated by a net. Like regular tennis, it is played by individuals (singles) or pairs (doubles), whose object is to hit the ball over the net, landing within the confines of the court, with the aim of preventing one's opponent from being able to hit it back. Soft tennis differs from regular tennis in that it uses soft rubber balls instead of hard yellow balls.
The 2014 Asian Games, officially known as the 17th Asian Games, was a pan-Asian multi-sport event held in Incheon, South Korea. This was the third time South Korea hosted the Asian Games, and its' first time since 2002. Previously, it had also hosted the 1986 edition of the games.
Incheon, officially the Incheon Metropolitan City (인천광역시), is a city located in northwestern South Korea, bordering Seoul and Gyeonggi to the east. Inhabited since the Neolithic, Incheon was home to just 4,700 people when it became an international port in 1883. Today, about 3 million people live in the city, making it South Korea's third most-populous city after Seoul and Busan. The city's growth has been assured in modern times with the development of its port due to its natural advantages as a coastal city and its proximity to the South Korean capital. It is part of the Seoul Capital Area, along with Seoul itself and Gyeonggi Province, forming the world's fifth largest metropolitan area by population.
Soft tennis had team, doubles and singles events for men and women, as well as a mixed doubles competition.
P | Preliminary round | ¼ | Quarterfinals | ½ | Semifinals | F | Final |
Event↓/Date → | 29th Mon | 30th Tue | 1st Wed | 2nd Thu | 3rd Fri | 4th Sat | ||||||||||
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Men's singles | P | P | ¼ | ½ | F | |||||||||||
Men's doubles | P | ¼ | ½ | F | ||||||||||||
Men's team | P | ½ | F | |||||||||||||
Women's singles | P | P | ¼ | ½ | F | |||||||||||
Women's doubles | P | ¼ | ½ | F | ||||||||||||
Women's team | P | ½ | F | |||||||||||||
Mixed doubles | P | ¼ | ½ | F |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's singles | Kim Hyeong-jun | Edi Kusdaryanto | Kim Dong-hoon |
Zhou Mo | |||
Men's doubles | Kim Dong-hoon Kim Beom-jun | Lin Ting-chun Li Chia-hung | Lee Sang-gwon Park Kyu-cheol |
Ho Meng-hsun Lai Li-huang | |||
Men's team | Kim Beom-jun Kim Dong-hoon Kim Hyeong-jun Lee Sang-gwon Park Kyu-cheol | Takuya Katsura Koji Kobayashi Koichi Nagae Keiya Nakamoto Hidenori Shinohara | Ho Meng-hsun Lai Li-huang Li Chia-hung Lin Ting-chun Lin Yu-tse |
Li Ze Lin Chengwei Shi Xiaolin Zhang Yusheng Zhou Mo | |||
Women's singles | Kim Bo-mi | Chen Hui | Kim Ae-kyung |
Zhong Yi | |||
Women's doubles | Joo Og Kim Ae-kyung | Yoon Soo-jung Kim Ji-yeon | Nao Morita Hikaru Yamashita |
Cheng Chu-ling Chen Yi-chia | |||
Women's team | Joo Og Kim Ae-kyung Kim Bo-mi Kim Ji-yeon Yoon Soo-jung | Nao Kobayashi Kana Morihara Nao Morita Ayaka Oba Hikaru Yamashita | Chan Chia-hsin Chen Yi-chia Cheng Chu-ling Chiang Wan-chi Kuo Chien-chi |
Chen Hui Feng Zixuan Liu Ge Xin Yani Zhong Yi | |||
Mixed doubles | Kim Beom-jun Kim Ae-kyung | Zhou Mo Chen Hui | Park Kyu-cheol Kim Ji-yeon |
Prima Simpatiaji Maya Rosa |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 12 | |
2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | |
3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | |
5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Totals (5 nations) | 7 | 7 | 14 | 28 |
A total of 87 athletes from 13 nations competed in soft tennis at the 2014 Asian Games: [1]
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