Tennis
Men's Singles Competition
- Shuzo Matsuoka
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- First round — Lost to Tim Henman (Great Britain) 6-7 3-6
Men's Doubles Competition
- Satoshi Iwabuchi and Takao Suzuki
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- First round — Defeated Juan-Carlos Bianchi and Nicolas Pereira (Venezuela) 6-4, 6-7, 8-6
- Second round — Lost to Sergi Bruguera and Tomás Carbonell (Spain) 7-6, 2-6, 5-7
Women's Singles Competition
- Ai Sugiyama
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- First round — Defeated Katarina Studenikova (Slovakia) 6-2 6-3
- Second round — Defeated Martina Hingis (Switzerland) 6-4 6-4
- Third round — Lost to Jana Novotná (Czech Republic) 3-6 4-6
- Kimiko Date
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- First round — Defeated Dally Randriantefy (Madagascar) 6-0 6-1
- Second round — Defeated Virag Csurgo (Hungary) 6-2 6-3
- Third round — Defeated Magdalena Maleeva (Bulgaria) 6-4 6-4
- Quarter Finals — Lost to Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (Spain) 6-4 3-6 8-10
- Naoko Sawamatsu
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- First round — Defeated Sung-Hee Park (South Korea) 6-3 4-6 6-3
- Second round — Lost to Lindsay Davenport (United States) 2-6 2-6
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