Guangzhou, Nov 15 (IANS) India lost 1-3 to China and had to be content with a silver in the men's snooker team event at the Asian Games here Monday.

The trio of Yasin Merchant, Aditya Kumar and Brijesh Damani went down to Junhui Ding, Liang Wenbo and Tian Pengfei 16-70, 51-46, 27-68, 0-96 at the Asian Games Town Gymnasium.

By coming second, the Indian team bettered its bronze medal show in the Doha edition four years ago.

The silver in snooker is India's third in the cue sport event of the Asian Games.

Pankaj Advani won the gold in billiards singles while Alok Kumar secured a bronze in the men's 8-ball pool singles Sunday.

Merchant, Mehta and Damani earlier blanked Pakistan 3-0 en route to the final.

Asian Games Tennis: India Lose to Chinese Taipei, Get Bronze 

India had to settle for a bronze in the men's tennis event after losing 1-2 to top seeds Chinese Taipei in the semifinals here Monday.

India's Somdev Devvarman drew the tie with a 6-2, 7-6(4) victory over Ti Chen after Sanam Singh went down fighting 7-6(3), 2-6, 6-7 (5) to Tsung Hua Yang in the first rubber.

Somdev and Sanam then combined for the deciding doubles but Yang and Chu-Huan Yi scraped through 4-6, 6-7(1).

India No.1 and Commonwealth gold medallist Somdev kept the team afloat after his clash of one hour and 39 minutes against Chen, who raised his game by several notches in the second set. Chen had replaced Taipei's top ranked player Lu Yen-hsun, who pulled out due to a waist injury.

After losing the first set in 37 minutes, Chen opened up a 4-1 lead in the second before the 106th-ranked Indian broke back in the ninth game to stretch the set to a tie-breaker, where he prevailed.

In the keenly fought doubles match, the Indians after exchanging early breaks were a bit unlucky when in the ninth game a cross-court return from Sanam was called out and brought up two set points for Chen-Yang, who wasted no time in converting these.

In the second set, the Indians pulled off an early break and were serving for the set but Sanam dropped his serve. The Indians also failed to take the advantage of the three break points in the next game and the set spilled into a tie-breaker, which turned out to be a one-sided affair.