In a major upset, seven-time Gold medallist India suffered their first ever loss in the Asian Games to South Korea in the men's Kabaddi group A game here on Monday.
India lost 23-24 to South Korea, who won the Bronze medal in the Incheon Games four years ago, in a match that went down to the wire.
This is the first defeat for India in 28 years at the Asian Games.
They will lock horns with Thailand in their final Group A game on Tuesday.
In the women's event, India continued their unbeaten streak cruising past Thailand 33-23 in their second group game.
The two-times champions dominated the contest from start to end, recording a comfortable win.
The team will take on Sri lankaon Tuesday followed by Indonesia.
Raina enters r16
palembang: India's singles specialists, including second seed Ramkumar Ramanathan and Ankita Raina, made impressive starts to their campaign, progressing to the pre-quarterfinals of the tennis event on Monday.
Ramanathan, who reached the finals of the Hall of Fame Championships last month, won the first set 6-0 against Wong Hong Kit but was stretched by the Hong Kong player in the second set before getting past 7-6 (4) on tie-break in a round of 32 match.
Prajnesh Gunneswaran, the 28-year-old from Chennai, had it easy against Indonesia Rifqi M Fitriadi, winning 6-2, 6-0 to progress to the last 16.
India's first match of the day was of Ankita Raina, who beat Beatrice Gumulya 6-2, 6-4 in a round of 32 match lasting almost two hours. Then it was the turn of Karman Kaur Thandi who had little difficulty in getting past Mongolian Jargal Altansarnai, 6-1, 6-0. In men's doubles, Ramanathan and Sumit Nagal, who formed a pairing at the last-minute, cleared the opening hurdle. They defeated Nepal's Abhishek Batola and Samrakshy Bajracharya 6-1, 6-1 to reach the round of 16.
Men's doubles top seeds Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan played their opening match in the pleasant evening weather.
(India vs Thailand: men’s kabaddi match start from 4 pm)