| Tennis at the 1982 Asian Games | |
|---|---|
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| Venue | R. K. Khanna Tennis Complex |
| Dates | 22 November – 4 December 1982 |
Tennis competitions at the 1982 Asian Games in Delhi were held from 22 November to 4 December 1982 at the R. K. Khanna Tennis Complex in New Delhi, India. [1] [2]
South Korea dominated the competition winning four gold medals.
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's singles | Yustedjo Tarik  Indonesia | Kim Choon-ho  South Korea | Liu Shuhua  China |
| Men's doubles |  South Korea Kim Choon-ho Lee Woo-ryong | South Korea Song Dong-wook Jeon Yeong-dae |  China Liu Shuhua Ma Keqin |
| Men's team |  Indonesia Hadiman Yustedjo Tarik Donald Wailan-Walalangi Tintus Arianto Wibowo |  India Nandan Bal Enrico Piperno Jayant Rikhye Srinivasan Vasudevan | China Liu Shuhua Ma Keqin You Wei |
| Women's singles | Etsuko Inoue  Japan | Kim Soo-ok South Korea | Yu Liqiao China |
| Women's doubles | South Korea Shin Soon-ho Kim Nam-sook | Japan Junko Kimura Kazuko Ito | Japan Masako Yanagi Etsuko Inoue |
| Women's team | South Korea Kim Nam-sook Kim Soo-ok Seol Min-kyung Shin Soon-ho | China Duan Lilan Wang Ping Yu Liqiao Zhu Xiaoyun | Japan Etsuko Inoue Kazuko Ito Junko Kimura Masako Yanagi |
| Mixed doubles | South Korea Kim Choon-ho Shin Soon-ho | Japan Ichiro Nakanishi Etsuko Inoue | Japan Yoshitomo Onishi Masako Yanagi |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Korea (KOR) | 4 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 2 | Indonesia (INA) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | Japan (JPN) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 4 | China (CHN) | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 5 | India (IND) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals (5 entries) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 | |
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