India suffer defeat in men's and women's Sepaktakraw

INCHEON: Indian men's team went down fighting 1-2 to Japan, while their women counterparts were blanked 0-3 by Myanmar in the preliminary round of the Sepaktakraw event of the 17th Asian Games here today.

The Indian men had grabbed an impressive lead after the first regu but they found the going tough in the second and third regu to eventually lose 21-16, 18-21, 16-21 in a group A match that lasted two hours and 26 minutes.

The women's team too started its Group B match against Myanmar on a positive note, winning the first game 22-20 but its opponents came back strongly to clinch the next two games to go 1-0 up after the first regu, which went on for one hour and four minutes.

After that India lost the stomach to fight as they were no match for Myanmar, losing 4-21, 3-21 in the second regu and 8-21, 11-21 in the third regu respectively at the Bucheon Gymnasium here.