The defeat against Chinese Taipei put India out of the tennis team event at the Asian Games.
The former national champion easily beat Chih Hao Chen of Chinese Taipei to qualify.
Chinese Taipei's Yeu Tzuoo Wang and Korea's warhorse Mi-Ra Jeon have been given top billing in the men's and women's singles respectively at the Asian Tennis Championships, beginning on Tuesday.
Reena Kumari and Sumangala Sharma advanced to the second knock-out round, but Dola Banerjee bowed out in the women's individual 70 metres archery event at the Olympic Games.
India's schedule at the Asian Games: Day 4
India beat Chinese Taipei to take the bronze and clinch a place in the World Youth Cup.
Young Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth continued his rampaging run in Kowloon and set up a semifinal clash with top seed Chinese Chen Long at the Hong Kong Super Series.
Chin-Wei Chan clinched the singles title in the US dollar 25,000 MSLTA ITF Women's Tennis Championship in Mumbai.
The Indian golfer's registered 12-under 272 to finish tied third at the Brunei Open.
The Indian ace was joint fifth after the second round in the Brunei Open.
The Indian stalwart stamped his return with a seven-under-par 64 to take the first round lead.
Chin-Wei Chan of Chinese Taipei and Montinee Tangphong of Thailand will clash in the US $ 10,000 tournament final.
The 28-year-old from Hyderabad, a winner of the Indonesia Masters, semi-finalist at Malaysia Masters and quarter-finalist at the All England Championship, saw US$36,825 added to her career earnings.
Arvind Bhat continued his impressive run to enter the men's singles quarter-finals of the $120,000 German Open Grand Prix Gold after posting a straight-game victory over Daren Liew of Malaysia in Mulheim an der Ruhr.
Sindhu, who had finished runners-up at the last edition in Dubai, will have a tough task at hand as she has been clubbed with defending champion Akane Yamaguchi of Japan, World No 1 Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei and USAs' Beiwen Zhang in Group A.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
Top seed K Srikanth suffered a straight-games defeat, but three other Indians, including Ajay Jayaram and H S Prannoy, advanced to the second round of the US $120,000 Macau Open Grand Prix Gold on Tuesday.
Chetan Anand, Abhinn Shyam Gupta and Nikhil Kanetkar advanced to the second round of the All England Open Badminton tournament.
The Indian stalwart opened up a four-shot lead at the halfway stage of the US$830,000 Asia Japan Okinawa Open.
Karan Rastogi booked a semi-final berth at the Australian Open junior tennis championships in Melbourne.
After six successive losses in 13 meetings, PV Sindhu finally got the better of her nemesis World No. 1 Tai Tzu Ying.
Nehwal has had a troubled run in this year as she has now faced exits from a tournament in the first round five times.
The duo completed an Indian sweep winning the boy's and girl's event respectively of the Asian Junior Tennis Championship.
The Indian youngster went down to ninth seed Yi Chu-Huan of Chinese Taipei at the Canadian Open junior tennis championships.
Thailand amateur Pornanong Phatlum won the Hong Kong Ladies Masters.
On a day of upsets in the ATP Challenger, the Indian ace lost to Chinese Taipei qualifier Ti Chen.
Veteran Indian tennis star Leander Paes and doubles partner Czech Radek Stepanek entered the US Open men's doubles pre-quarterfinals with a straight-set victory in the second round in New York.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Thursday.
Despite a crash in training that hampered his preparation, India's five-time Winter Olympian Shiva Keshavan put in a dominating performance to clinch the gold medal at the Asian Luge Championship in Nagano.
Check out India's report card on the fifth day of the 2016 Olympics.
India's Karan Rastogi and partner Yi Chu-Huan won the doubles title in the Grade I 40th Astrid Bowl Charleroi Belgian International Junior Championships.
The promising Indian youngster and partner Yi Chu-Huan of Chinese Taipei lost the doubles final in a Grade A tournament in Milan, Italy.
Young men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty too entered the quarter-finals after getting past Chinese Taipei's Liao Min Chun and Su Ching Heng 21-17, 21-16 in the second round.
The top seed beat Ankita Bhambri 7-6, 6-4 in the semi-finals of the ITF women's tennis tournament in New Delhi.
The World No 25 pair of Satwiksairaj and Chirag put a gallant fight in the second game but couldn't stop the two-time All England Champions from Indonesia, going down 12-21, 24-26 in a 42-minute match.
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