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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Famous quotes containing the word tennis:
“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“[My one tennis book] was very, very old. It had a picture of Bill Tilden. I looked at the picture and that was how I learned to hold the racket.”
—Maria Bueno (b. 1939)
“I know some of my self-worth comes from tennis, and it’s hard to think of doing something else where you know you’ll never be the best. Tennis players are rare creatures: where else in the world can you know that you’re the best? The definitiveness of it is the beauty of it, but it’s not all there is to life and I’m ready to explore the alternatives.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)