India endured another disappointing day in table tennis competitions at the Asian Games with only the men's doubles pair of Achanta Sharath Kamal and Subhajit Saha progressing to the pre-quarters stage at the Guangzhou Gymnasium in Guangzhou on Tuesday.
The Commonwealth Games gold medallist pair of Sharath Kamal and Saha lived up to their billing and took little time in outclassing Husain Albahrani and Mansour Alenezy of Kuwait 3-0 in their opening round encounter.
The Indian duo took just 12 minutes to get the better of Albahrani and Alenezy 11-7, 11-4, 11-4 and set up a clash against the Korean pair of Jungwoo Lee and Sang Eun Oh.
If Sharath Kamal and Saha's match was a cakewalk, their compatriots Soumyadeep Roy and Anthony Amalraj were shown the door in the first round by Korean combination of Yuk Cheung and Li Ching.
Roy and Amalraj offered little resistance as the Korean duo sent them packing (0-3) 5-11, 5-11, 7-11 in merely 13 minutes.
India's challenge also came to a halt in the mixed doubles event as the pair of Sharath Kamal and Kumaresan Shamini went down fighting 2-3 to Seiya Kishikawa and Ai Fukuhara of Japan in the pre-quarterfinals.
Sharath and Shamini gave a tough fight to their opponents before bowing down 12-10, 4-11, 11-8 2-11, 6-11 in their second round encounter which lasted little more than half-an-hour.
