Soft tennis at the 2006 Asian Games

Soft tennis at the 2006 Asian Games
Venue	Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex
Dates	2–8 December 2006
Competitors	67 from 10 nations

Soft tennis was a discipline of the tennis competitions at the 2006 Asian Games. Competition took place from December 2 to December 8. All events were held at Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex.

Singles, Doubles, and Team events were held in this competition, Chinese Taipei finished first in medal table by winning three gold medals.

Schedule

P

Preliminary rounds

¼

Quarterfinals

½

Semifinals

F

Finals

Event↓/Date →	2nd Sat		3rd Sun		4th Mon				5th Tue		6th Wed		7th Thu	8th Fri
Men's singles									P	¼	½	F
Men's doubles														P	¼	½	F
Men's team	P	¼	½	F
Women's singles									P	¼	½	F
Women's doubles														P	¼	½	F
Women's team	P	¼	½	F
Mixed doubles					P	¼	½	F

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Wang Chun-yen  Chinese Taipei	Hidenori Shinohara  Japan	Nam Taek-ho  South Korea
Men's doubles	Chinese Taipei Li Chia-hung Yang Sheng-fa	South Korea Kim Jae-bok You Young-dong	Japan Shigeo Nakahori Tsuneo Takagawa
Men's team	Japan Noaya Hanada Tatsuro Kawamura Shigeo Nakahori Hidenori Shinohara Tsuneo Takagawa	Chinese Taipei Li Chia-hung Lin Shun-wu Wang Chun-yen Yang Sheng-fa Yeh Chia-lin	South Korea Jong Young-pal Kim Jae-bok Nam Taek-ho We Hyu-hwan You Young-dong
Women's singles	Chiang Wan-chi  Chinese Taipei	Jiang Ting  China	Miwa Tsuji  Japan
Women's doubles	Japan Harumi Gyokusen Ayumi Ueshima	Japan Hiromi Hamanaka Miwa Tsuji	South Korea Kim Kyung-ryun Lee Kyung-pyo
Women's team	South Korea Kim Ji-eun Kim Kyung-ryun Lee Bok-soon Lee Kyung-pyo Min Soo-kyoung	Japan Harumi Gyokusen Hiromi Hamanaka Miwa Tsuji Eri Uehara Ayumi Ueshima	Chinese Taipei Chiang Wan-chi Chou Chiu-ping Fang Yen-ling Lan Yi-yun Yang Hui-ju
Mixed doubles	South Korea We Hyu-hwan Kim Ji-eun	South Korea You Young-dong Kim Kyung-ryun	Japan Tsuneo Takagawa Harumi Gyokusen

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	3	1	1	5
2	Japan (JPN)	2	3	3	8
3	South Korea (KOR)	2	2	3	7
4	China (CHN)	0	1	0	1
Totals (4 entries)		7	7	7	21

Participating nations

A total of 67 athletes from 10 nations competed in soft tennis at the 2006 Asian Games:

•  China (7)
•  Chinese Taipei (10)
•  Japan (10)
•  Kyrgyzstan (2)
•  Maldives (5)
•  Mongolia (9)
•  Nepal (5)
•  Philippines (7)
•  South Korea (10)
•  Tajikistan (2)

References

• Official website

External links

• soft-tennis.org