India [ Images ] suffered a 0-3 drubbing at the hands of sixth seeds China to slump to their second consecutive defeat in the Junior Davis Cup Asia/Oceania qualifying round on Tuesday.

India, who went down 1-2 to Chinese Taipei in the first round robin match, will now fight to avoid relegation.

The home side, now placed third in Group D, play bottom placed Sri Lanka [ Images ] tomorrow to stay in the Asia-Oceania group.

Two teams from the group would qualify for the World Group.

In the first singles at Delhi [ Images ] Lawn Tennis Association here, India's number two Fatehdeep Singh went down to Ze-Yu Li 4-6, 3-6 in one hour and 35 minutes.

In the second singles, India's top player Sheikh Abdullah hung on for a while in the first set but was blown away by Si-Yu Liu in the second to lose 3-6, 0-6 in a one hour 15 minute match.

Garvit Batra and Fatehdeep Singh then lost to Ze-Yu Li and Zhi-Cheng Zhu in the inconsequential doubles 1-6, 2-6 in 55 minutes.