Wheelchair tennis at the 2018 Asian Para Games | |
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Venue | Klub Kelapa Gading |
Location | Jakarta, Indonesia |
Dates | 7–12 October |
Wheelchair tennis at the 2018 Asian Para Games was held in Jakarta between 7 and 12 October 2018. [1]
* Host nation (Indonesia)
Rank | NPC | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Japan (JPN) | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
2 | South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
3 | China (CHN) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
4 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Sri Lanka (SRI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Thailand (THA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (6 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |
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Men's singles | Shingo Kunieda Japan | Takashi Sanada Japan | Kohei Suzuki Japan | |
Men's doubles | Shingo Kunieda and Takashi Sanada (JPN) | Im Ho-won and Lee Ha-gel (KOR) | Lasantha Ranaweera and Suresh Dharmasena (SRI) | |
Women's singles | Yui Kamiji Japan | Zhu Zhenzhen China | Momoko Ohtani Japan | |
Women's doubles | Huang Huimin and Zhu Zhenzhen (CHN) | Yui Kamiji and Manami Tanaka (JPN) | Wanitha Inthanin and Sakhorn Khanthasit (THA) | |
Quad singles | Kim Kyu-seung South Korea | Koji Sugeno Japan | Mitsuteru Moroishi Japan | |
Quad doubles | Mitsuteru Moroishi and Koji Sugeno (JPN) | Kim Kyu-seung and Kim Myung-je (KOR) | Huang Chu-yin and Huang Tzu-hsuan (TPE) |
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