Tennis at the 1958 Asian Games

Tennis was contested at the 1958 Asian Games in New National Tennis Courts, Tokyo, Japan from May 25 to May 30, 1958. Tennis had doubles and singles events for men and women, as well as a mixed doubles competition.

Tennis at the 1958 Asian Games
Venue	New National Tennis Courts
Dates	25–30 May
Competitors	60 from 15 nations

A total of 60 tennis players from 15 nations competed in tennis at the 1958 Asian Games, Japan and the Philippines dominated the events winning all five gold and silver medals.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Raymundo Deyro  Philippines	Felicisimo Ampon  Philippines	Johnny Jose  Philippines
			Miguel Dungo  Philippines
Men's doubles	Philippines Felicisimo Ampon Raymundo Deyro	Philippines Johnny Jose Miguel Dungo	Ceylon Rupert Ferdinands Bernard Pinto
			South Vietnam Võ Văn Bảy Võ Văn Thành
Women's singles	Sachiko Kamo  Japan	Desideria Ampon  Philippines	Liu Shang-ku  Republic of China
			Reiko Miyagi  Japan
Women's doubles	Japan Sachiko Kamo Reiko Miyagi	Philippines Desideria Ampon Patricia Yngayo	Republic of China Liu Shang-ku Chan Shiao-miao
			Malaya Gladys Loke Katherine Leong
Mixed doubles	Japan Yoshihisa Shibata Reiko Miyagi	Philippines Miguel Dungo Patricia Yngayo	Philippines Felicisimo Ampon Desideria Ampon
			Republic of China Kao Teng-ko Chan Shiao-miao

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	3	0	1	4
2	Philippines (PHI)	2	5	3	10
3	Republic of China (ROC)	0	0	3	3
4	Ceylon (CEY)	0	0	1	1
	Malaya (MAL)	0	0	1	1
	South Vietnam (VNM)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 nations)		5	5	10	20

Participating nations

A total of 60 athletes from 15 nations competed in tennis at the 1958 Asian Games:

Burma (1)  Ceylon (4)  Hong Kong (6)  Indonesia (4)  Iran (4)  Japan (6)  Malaya (4)  Nepal (2)

Pakistan (2)  Philippines (6)  Republic of China (6)  Singapore (4)  South Korea (4)  South Vietnam (3)  Thailand (4)

References

• Asian Games Roll of Honour (1958-2006)

External links

• OCA website