Indian men spikers' dream run in the Asian Games came to a screeching halt after they were thumped 0-3 by Thailand in the quarter-finals at the Zhongda Gymnasium in Guangzhou on Sunday.
After impressive wins against Japan and Qatar in the league stages, the Indian men's volleyball team failed to register a hat-trick of wins, going down fighting 20-25, 23-25, 22-25 to Thailand in the last eight round.
Naveen Manidurai scored 14 points for the Indians, but that was never enough to save the his side.
The Indian women spikers, had an equally bad day as they slumped to their third consecutive defeat in four matches after being thrashed 0-3 by Kazakhstan in their preliminary Group B match.
The Indian eves were no match for their Kazakh rivals who spanked them 18-25, 9-25, 10-25 in little more than an hour.
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