Tennis at the 1978 Asian Games

Tennis at the 1978 Asian Games
Dates	10–19 December 1978

Tennis was contested at the 1978 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand from December 10 to December 19, 1978. Tennis had doubles and singles events for men and women, as well as a mixed doubles competition.

Indonesia dominated the competition, finishing first in medal table with 3 gold medals.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Atet Wijono  Indonesia	Shigeyuki Nishio  Japan	Tetsu Kuramitsu  Japan
			Nadir Ali Khan  Pakistan
Men's doubles	Indonesia Yustedjo Tarik Hadiman	China Xu Meilin Gu Minghua	India Shyam Minotra Chiradip Mukerjea
			Thailand Pichet Boratisa Charuek Hengrasmee
Men's team	Indonesia Hadiman Yustedjo Tarik Gondo Widjojo Atet Wijono	Pakistan Jamil Ahmed Nasir Munir Ahmed Altaf Hussain Nadir Ali Khan	China Gu Minghua Sun Chunlai Wang Fuzhang Xu Meilin
			Japan Tetsu Kuramitsu Shigeyuki Nishio Etsuo Uchiyama
Women's singles	Lee Duk-hee  South Korea	Chen Juan  China	Kiyoko Nomura  Japan
			Sonoe Yonezawa  Japan
Women's doubles	South Korea Lee Duk-hee Yang Jeong-soon	Japan Kimiyo Hatanaka Kiyoko Nomura	China Chen Juan Yu Liqiao
			Thailand Suthasini Sirikaya Sirikanya Hoonsiri
Women's team	Japan Kimiyo Hatanaka Matsuko Matsushima Kiyoko Nomura Sonoe Yonezawa	South Korea Kim Nam-sook Kim Soo-ok Lee Duk-hee Yang Jeong-soon	Indonesia Lita Sugiarto Yolanda Soemarno Ayi Sutarno Elvis Tarik
Mixed doubles	Thailand Charuek Hengrasmee Suthasini Sirikaya	Japan Etsuo Uchiyama Matsuko Matsushima	Indonesia Hadiman Ayi Sutarno
			Japan Shigeyuki Nishio Kimiyo Hatanaka

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Indonesia (INA)	3	0	2	5
2	South Korea (KOR)	2	1	0	3
3	Japan (JPN)	1	3	5	9
4	Thailand (THA)	1	0	2	3
5	China (CHN)	0	2	2	4
6	Pakistan (PAK)	0	1	1	2
7	India (IND)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		7	7	13	27

References

• Asian Games Roll of Honour (1962-2006)

External links

• OCA website