India's hopes in snooker suffer blow

India's Yasin Merchant bowed out of the snooker singles event losing to China's Jin Long in the preliminary round in Busan on Friday.

Yasin, who teamed up with Rafath Habib to fetch India their first and only gold in the Games, lost 1-3 to his Chinese opponent.

India met with a similar fate in the billiards Pool nine ball singles event too with Dharminder Lilly losing 4-11 to Singapore's Choon Tey Kiat.