Etsuko Inoue
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Etsuko Inoue is a retired female tennis player from Japan
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Inoue twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: in 1984
(Los Angeles, California
) and 1988
(Seoul, South Korea). In 1982 she became the first winner of the women's tennis competition at the Asian Games
.
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
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Inoue twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: in 1984
Tennis at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Tennis returned to the Summer Olympic Games for the second time in 60 years at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, United States, but it was only a demonstration sport like it had been the previous time in 1968...
(Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
) and 1988
Tennis at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Tennis returned to the Summer Olympic Games at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, having been left out since the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. Tennis had been a demonstration sport at the 1984 Summer Olympics....
(Seoul, South Korea). In 1982 she became the first winner of the women's tennis competition at the Asian Games
Tennis at the Asian Games
Tennis is part of the Asian Games program. It has been played at each edition of the games since 1958, with the exception of 1970. Men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, and mixed doubles have been contested each time...
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