Favourites India endured a forgettable 0-4 drubbing at the hands of China in the women's hockey semifinals, a result that not only pushed the team out of the gold medal race but also denied it a direct entry to the Paris Olympics.
Last edition's silver medallist India, the highest-ranked team in the tournament at world number seven, was no match to world number China, who were the bronze medallist in 2018 in Jakarta.
Jiaqi Zhong (25th minute), Meirong Zou (40th), Meiyu Liang (55th) and Bingfeng Gu (60th) scored the goals for China.
"Definitely not the result we were looking for today. I'm quite disappointed with the performance of my team," skipper Savita said.
"We knew that China is a good team, but our team is quite good too. Maybe it wasn't our day today, as we were not able to execute the plans we had made for this game. We gave it away.