The Indian women's handball team went down to their Chinese counterparts in a Group A match of the 18th Asian Games here on Sunday.
In their third match of the Handball preliminary round, the Indian women suffered a 21-36 defeat and are now almost out of the competition.
The Indian eves had earlier lost to Kazakhstan 19-36 in their first game before going down 18-45 to South Korea.
Maninder Kaur (10) was the top-scorer for India but it was not enough as India were outclassed 9-19 in the first period and then 12-17 in the second period.
India will now face North Korea in their final outing on August 21.
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