| Soft tennis at the 2022 Asian Games | |
|---|---|
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| Venue | HOC Tennis Centre |
| Dates | 3–7 October 2023 |
| Competitors | 97 from 12 nations |
Soft tennis at the 2022 Asian Games was held at the Hangzhou Olympic Center Tennis Centre, Hangzhou, China from 3 to 7 October 2023.
Soft tennis had team and singles events for men and women, as well as a mixed doubles competition.
| P | Preliminary rounds | ¼ | Quarterfinals | ½ | Semifinals | F | Final |
| Event↓/Date → | 3rd Tue | 4th Wed | 5th Thu | 6th Fri | 7th Sat | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's singles | P | P | ¼ | ½ | F | |||||||
| Men's team | P | ½ | F | |||||||||
| Women's singles | P | ¼ | ½ | F | ||||||||
| Women's team | P | ½ | F | |||||||||
| Mixed doubles | P | ¼ | ½ | F | ||||||||
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's singles | Toshiki Uematsu  Japan | Chang Yu-sung Chinese Taipei | Yoon Hyoung-wook South Korea |
| Chen Yu-hsun Chinese Taipei | |||
| Men's team |  Japan Hayato Funemizu Sora Hirooka Riku Uchida Takafumi Uchimoto Toshiki Uematsu |  Chinese Taipei Chang Yu-sung Chen Po-yi Chen Yu-hsun Lin Wei-chieh Yu Kai-wen |  Indonesia Mario Harley Alibasa Hemat Bhakti Anugerah Tio Juliandi Hutauruk Fernando Sanger Sunu Wahyu Trijati |
 South Korea Kim Byung-gook Kim Hyun-soo Kim Tae-min Lee Hyeon-su Yoon Hyoung-wook | |||
| Women's singles | Mun Hye-gyeong South Korea | Noa Takahashi Japan | Li Denglin China |
| Ma Yue China | |||
| Women's team | Japan Haruka Kubo Kurumi Onoue Tomomi Shimuta Noa Takahashi Emina Watanabe | Chinese Taipei Cheng Chu-ling Hsu Chiao-ying Huang Shih-yuan Kuo Chien-chi Lo Shu-ting | South Korea Ji Da-young Ko Eun-ji Lee Min-seon Lim Jin-ah Mun Hye-gyeong |
 China Fu Xiaochen Li Denglin Ma Yue | |||
| Mixed doubles | Japan Toshiki Uematsu Noa Takahashi | Japan Riku Uchida Tomomi Shimuta | Chinese Taipei Lin Wei-chieh Huang Shih-yuan |
| South Korea Kim Hyun-soo Mun Hye-gyeong |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan (JPN) | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 2 | South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 3 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | China (CHN) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 5 | Indonesia (INA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (5 entries) | 5 | 5 | 10 | 20 | |
A total of 97 athletes from 12 nations competed in soft tennis at the 2022 Asian Games: [1]
Cambodia (10) China (3) Chinese Taipei (10)
India (10) Indonesia (7) Japan (10)
Mongolia (10)
North Korea (3)
Philippines (10) South Korea (10)
Thailand (10)
Vietnam (4)
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