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 | |||||||
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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 |
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Men's singles | Toshiki Uematsu ![]() | Chang Yu-sung![]() | Yoon Hyoung-wook![]() |
Chen Yu-hsun![]() | |||
Men's team | ![]() Hayato Funemizu Sora Hirooka Riku Uchida Takafumi Uchimoto Toshiki Uematsu | ![]() Chang Yu-sung Chen Po-yi Chen Yu-hsun Lin Wei-chieh Yu Kai-wen | ![]() Mario Harley Alibasa Hemat Bhakti Anugerah Tio Juliandi Hutauruk Fernando Sanger Sunu Wahyu Trijati |
![]() Kim Byung-gook Kim Hyun-soo Kim Tae-min Lee Hyeon-su Yoon Hyoung-wook | |||
Women's singles | Mun Hye-gyeong![]() | Noa Takahashi![]() | Li Denglin![]() |
Ma Yue![]() | |||
Women's team | ![]() Haruka Kubo Kurumi Onoue Tomomi Shimuta Noa Takahashi Emina Watanabe | ![]() Cheng Chu-ling Hsu Chiao-ying Huang Shih-yuan Kuo Chien-chi Lo Shu-ting | ![]() Ji Da-young Ko Eun-ji Lee Min-seon Lim Jin-ah Mun Hye-gyeong |
![]() Fu Xiaochen Li Denglin Ma Yue | |||
Mixed doubles | ![]() Toshiki Uematsu Noa Takahashi | ![]() Riku Uchida Tomomi Shimuta | ![]() Lin Wei-chieh Huang Shih-yuan |
![]() Kim Hyun-soo Mun Hye-gyeong |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | ![]() | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
2 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
3 | ![]() | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
4 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
5 | ![]() | 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]
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