Bopanna loses to lowly ranked Chinese

India's woes in men's tennis continued at the Asian Games with the country's number one singles player and eighth seed Rohan Bopanna crashing out with a straight set defeat to Sun Peng of China in the first round on Saturday.

Bopanna, ranked 277th in the world, played timidly against a player ranked more than 400 places below him and was beaten 6-3 6-3 in the round of 32 clash that lasted one hour twenty-six minutes.

The Indian men had earlier failed to impress in the team event and lost in the first round against Chinese Taipei.