Star Indian paddler Manika Batra crashed out of the women's singles in the World Table Tennis Championships Finals after a first round defeat, while Sathiyan Gnanasekaran advanced to the second round in the men's singles, in Houston, on Wednesday.
Sharath Kamal also bowed out of the men's singles after losing in the first round and Ayhika Mukherjee advanced to the women's singles second round.
Olympian Batra, the country's highest-ranked women's player, went down 3-4 (11-5, 15-13, 8-11, 4-11, 6-11, 11-4, 7-11) to Brazil's Bruna Takahashi.
Compatriots Sutirtha Mukherjee and Madhurika Patkar lost to South Korea's Choi Hyo-joo (11-8, 4-11, 5-11, 0-11, 4-11) and Japan's Saki Shibata (7-11, 4-11, 3-11, 8-11) respectively.
Ayhika Mukherjee, the lone Indian winner in the women's singles, beat Egypt's Farah Abdel-Aziz 4-2 (11-7, 14-16, 8-11, 11-6, 11-9, 11-6).
She will face Japan's Hina Hayata, the current world No 18, in the round of 64.
Batra, had a good outing in the Tokyo Olympics, has paired with Sathiyan in the mixed doubles. They got a bye in the round of 64.
Batra and Archana Kamath also got a first round bye in the women's doubles.
In the men's singles, Gnanasekaran, who participated in the Tokyo Games, beat Ukraine's Yaroslav Zhmudenko 4-0 (11-2, 11-9, 11-4, 11-3) to set up a clash against the Table Tennis Federation of Russia's Vladimir Sidorenko in the round of 64.
The other three Indian men's singles players -- Sharath Kamal, Anthony Amalraj and Harmeet Desai -- lost in the first round.
Four-time Olympian Sharath Kamal lost to Belgium's Cedric Nuytinck 1-4 (11-9, 5-11, 6-11, 7-11, 9-11) while Harmeet Desai was blanked 0-4 (9-11, 7-11, 7-11, 4-11) by Germany's Benedikt Duda.
Amalraj went down to Nigeria's Bode Abiodun 3-4 (6-11, 11-5, 11-5, 8-11, 12-10, 9-11, 6-11).
Sharath Kamal is still in the fray in the mixed doubles. He and Archana Kamath beat the Algerian pair of Sami Kherouf and Katia Kessaci 3-0 (11-7, 11-6, 11-7) to make it to the second round.
Sharath is also paired with Sathiyan in men's doubles. The duo got a first round bye.
