Indian Women TT team loses 0-3 to South Korea, out of contention

Doha, Nov 30 (UNI) India women's team campaign collapsed as they caved in without fight to South Korea 0-3 in the quarter finals and crashed out of the Table Tennis competition of the Asian Games here tonight.

With this, India's men and Women teams bowed out of the tournament even before the formal opening of the Games.

Indian women, who had yesterday beaten Uzbekistan 3-0 and suffered a 0-3 thrashing from North Korea in the league matches, made it to the last eight because they figured in three-team pool in which one win was enough for getting into the knock out stage.

The South Koreans handed India the same treatment which their estranged neighbour North Korea had given to the South Asian champions.

Only Paulomi Ghatak could snatch a game from Kyung Ah Kim in the whole tie as Mouma Das and Shamin Kumaresan went down in straight games.

In the first match against Kyung Ah Kim, Paulomi after losing the first two games bounced back to win the third but that was all she managed to achieve as Kim hit back strongly in the fourth to wrap up th match 11-5, 11-2, 11-13 and 11-4 to give South Korea 1-0 lead.

The next two matches were wash out for the Indians as Mouma Das found Mi Young Park too hot to handle. Park took only 11 minutes to dispose of Mouma 11-6, 11-5, 11-6 to make it 2-0.

Bang Bang Kwak completed the tally as she put it across Shamini Kumarsan. The Indian threw in the towel without much resistanc and went down 7-11, 4-11, 6-11.

The Indian men team had made their exit from the tournament yesterday itself, losing to Japan and China. This morning they won an inconsequential match against Yemen.

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