The Indian recurve archers' will return empty-handed from the 18th Asian Games with both the men and women sides crashing out in the quarter-finals of the team events, in Jakarta, on Saturday.
After witnessing a disappointing campaign in the individual recurve events, the onus was on the men's and women's teams to make up for the poor show but it was not to be.
The Indian women's team lost 2-6 to formidable Chinese Taipei.
The Indians, represented by Ankita Bhakat, Promila Daimary and Deepika Kumari lost 0-2, 0-2, 2-0, 0-2 against the Chinese Taipei trio of Chien-Ying Lei, Chia-Mao Peng and Yating Tan to bow out of the competition.
The Indian women had earlier defeated Mongolia 5-3 in the previous round.
It was a similar script for the men's recurve team as well as they lost 1-5 against favourites Korea in the quarterfinals.
The Indian men's team of Jagdish Choudhary, Atanu Das and Viswash started brightly to hold the Korean trio of Woojin Kim, Wooseok Lee and Jinhyek Oh 1-1 in the first set before the Koreans up their ante to pocket the next two sets with identical 2-0 margin and seal a place in the semifinals.
The Indian men had defeated Vietnam 5-3 in the previous round to set up a clash against the Koreans.
Pavitra through to quarters
Indian boxer Pavitra (60kg) advanced to the quarter-finals of the Asian Games after out-classing Pakistan's Rukhsana Perveen in a bout that did not go beyond the opening round, in Jakarta, on Saturday.
Pavitra, who is a former National Games gold-medallist, was at her ferocious best in the contest, resulting in two knockdowns for Rukhsana in the first round.
After that, the referee didn't take long to stop the contest in the Indian's favour.
The score-sheet at that point was unanimously 10-8 in Pavitra's favour.
The 31-year-old is making her debut at the Games, having replaced former world and Asian champion L Sarita Devi in the lightweight category.
Pavitra has been an Asian Championships bronze-medallist, albeit in the 57kg category.
She had claimed a gold medal in the Asian Games test event held earlier this year in the country.
Sepaktakraw: India lose 0-2 to South Korea
The Indian men's sepaktakraw regu team lost to South Korea in a group match of the 18th Asian Games in Palembang.
India lost 0-2 (6-21 7-21) to South Korea in their opening men's regu preliminary Group B match.
The Indian team plays against Malaysia tomorrow before taking on Nepal and China later in the tournament.
Earlier this week, India had won a historic Asian Games bronze medal in men's regu team competition.
Sepaktakraw is a volleyball-style sport in which players use their feet, head, knees and chest to hit the ball across the net. They are not allowed to use their hands.
Weightlifter Vikas Thakur finishes 8th
Indian weightlifters' listless campaign in the 18th Asian Games came to an end today as Vikas Thakur finished eighth in the men's 94kg category competition.
Thakur lifted a total of 335kg (145kg+190kg).
After two unsuccessful attempts, Thakur managed to lift 145kg in his snatch.
In the clean and jerk, he successfully lifted 190 kg but faltered in his final two attempts of 197kg.
For the 24-year-old Indian, a total of 335 kg was a climb down from the Commonwealth Games earlier this year, where he lifted his personal best of 351 kg (159kg+192kg) to win a bronze medal.
Reigning Olympic champion Iran's Sohrab Moradi broke the world record in snatch in his total lift of 410 kg (189kg+221kg) to clinch the gold, while Elbakh Fares of Qatar won the silver with a lift of 381 kg (166kg+215kg).
The bronze went to Sumpradit Sarat of Thailand who lifted 380kg (170kg+210kg).
Yesterday, Rakhi Halder failed to register even a single lift in the women's 63kg category.
Earlier this week, Ajay Singh and Sathish Sivalingam had finished fifth and 10th respectively in the men's 77kg category.