Japan beat back strong comeback from Chinese Taipei to win the Asian Games soft tennis men's team title at the Khalifa Soft Tennis Courts here on Sunday.

Japan revenged their loss to Chinese Taipei in the 2005 East Asian Games men's team final by beating the opponents 2-1 in one hour and 35 minutes.

"After having won the first doubles, the players felt under pressure. They did not perform as we expected in the singles and second doubles," said Chinese Taipei team coach Kuo Hsu Tung.

Chinese Taipei made a winning start as Li Chia Hung/Yang Sheng Fa claimed the first doubles rubber following a 5-1 breezing win over Japanese pair of Naoya Hanada/Tatsuro Kawamura.

The second rubber was also lopsided but it was Japanese' turn to draw the blood when Hidenori Shinohara beat Wang Chun Yen from Chinese Taipei 4-1 without a hitch.

In the second doubles match, Chinese Taipei's Lin Shun Wu and Yeh Chia Lin rallied from three games down to make it 3-all but Shigeo Nakahori and Tsuneo Takagawa took the following two games in a row to claim the 5-3 victory for Japan.

"I am not satisfied with myself. I hope to get the gold. I could not play as normal because I felt the pressure," said singles player Wang Chun Yen.

"The eye injury of Yeh Chia Lin before the start of the Asian Games affected his performance, especially on the net," Kuo added.