| Event: | Soft tennis |
| Games: | 1998 Asian Games |
| Venue: | Thammasat Tennis Field |
| Dates: | 11–15 December 1998 |
| Competitors: | 86 |
| Nations: | 11 |
| Prev: | 1994 |
| Next: | 2002 |
Soft tennis was a discipline of the tennis competitions at the 1998 Asian Games. Competition took place from December 11 to December 15. All events were held at the Tennis Field 3 in Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand.
There were four doubles and team events at the competition.
| P | Preliminary rounds | ¼ | Quarterfinals | ½ | Semifinals | F | Finals |
| Event↓/Date → | 11th Fri | 12th Sat | 13th Sun | 14th Mon | 15th Tue | ||||
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| P | ¼ | ½ | F | ||||||
| P | P | ½ | F | ||||||
| P | ¼ | ½ | F | ||||||
| P | P | ½ | F | ||||||
| Men's doubles | Kuo Hsu-tung Fang Tung-hsien | Liao Nan-kai Yeh I-ming | Jun In-soo You Young-dong | |
| Men's team | Choi Ji-hun Jun In-soo Kim Hee-soo Kim Kyung-han You Young-dong | Fang Tung-hsien Kuo Hsu-tung Liao Nan-kai Sie Shun-feng Yeh I-ming | Takahisa Hirayama Hideyuki Kitamoto Shigeo Nakahori Hironobu Saito Tsuneo Takagawa | |
| Women's doubles | Kang Ji-sook Lee Mi-kyung | Lin Li-jung Cheng Shu-chen | Naoko Higashi Yuko Miyaji | |
| Women's team | Kang Ji-sook Lee Mi-hwa Lee Mi-kyung Yang Kum-yo Yoon Sun-kyung | Naoko Higashi Satoko Ishikawa Yuko Miyaji Shino Mizukami Tomoka Oku | Chang Shu-chuan Cheng Shu-chen Hsu I-chia Lin Li-jung Lin Mei-ling |
A total of 86 athletes from 11 nations competed in soft tennis at the 1998 Asian Games: