The Indian duo of Jameeludd Mohammed and Ravinder Redd Sara started their beach volleyball campaign at the Asian Games on a losing note suffering a 0-2 defeat at the hands of their Japanese opponents in their opening pool match in Guangzhou on Tuesday.

The pair of Jameeludd and Ravinder were out-classed 14-21, 10-21 in 35 minutes in their first Pool F match at the Beach Volleyball Venue.

The other two teams in Pool F are the Thai combination of Panupong Toyam and Niphon Nimnuan and Qatar's Assa Mahmoud Ahmed and Is Hassan Al Sheeb.

Earlier, the Indian pair of Kasi Viswanadha Raju and Kiran Kumar Reddy lost their opening round match against rivals Kazakhstan.

Raju and Reddy lost 1-2 (12-21, 22-20, 15-17) to the duo of Dimitry Yakovlev and Alexey Kuleshov in a 52-minute Pool E contest.