India caved in without fight to South Korea, losing 0-3 in the quarter-finals, and crashed out of the women's table tennis competition at the Asian Games in Doha on Thursday night.
Following the defeat, India's men and women's teams bowed out of the tournament even before the formal opening of the Games.
The Indian women, who had on Wednesday beaten Uzbekistan 3-0 and suffered a 0-3 thrashing from North Korea in league matches, made it to the last eight because they figured in the three-team pool in which one win was enough to get into the knock-out stage.
The South Koreans handed India the same treatment that 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 rubber, 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 the match 11-5, 11-2, 11-13 and 11-4 to give South Korea 1-0 lead.
The next two matches were a 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, winning 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 resistance, going down 7-11, 4-11, 6-11.
The Indian men team had made an exit from the tournament on Wednesday itself, losing to Japan and China. This morning they won an inconsequential match against Yemen.
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