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BENGALURU – Defending Champion Japan Gave India a reality check on the opening day as they drubbed India 103-27 here for the FIBA Women’s Asia Cup 2019 at the Sree Kanteerava Indoor Stadium on Tuesday. Himawari Akaho, with 23 points, top-scored for Japan supported by Sanae Motokawa (16) while Saki Hayashi and Evelyn Mawuli who scored 11. For India, only double digit scorer was Shireen Limaye with 11 points. With their quick and precise passing up front and tight-marking India themselves find difficult to score and the initial quarter itself letting Japanese in control at 28-7 and ended the first half trailing 11-39. Japan coached by Tom Hovasse- outscore India in the last quarter 22 to 3 to register a massive 103-57 win. On Wednesday, India will take on South Korea, who defeated Chinese Taipei 48-44 Other matches of the day last edition runner up Australia rout Philippines 125-57,Australian Coach Sandy Brondello managed the rotations carefully with no one even reach the 20 minutes played. Regardless of the shortened individual playing time, 9 players found their way to score in double-digits while China takes times to settle after leading 21-17 at the half time interval before blasting the third quarter with a 42-29 and winning in at 67-44 Results: Group A: South Korea: 48 (Minjeong Kim 10,Hyeeon Bee9) bt Chinese Taipei: 44 (I-Hsiu Cheng 10)(12-14,10-10,17-11,9-9); Japan: 103 (Himawari Akaho 23, Sanae Motokawa 16, Saki Hayashi 11, Evelyn Mawuli 11, Moeko Nagaoka 10) bt India: 27 (Shireen Limaye 11,Anjana P G4,Jeena P S 4)(28-7,22-11,31-6,22-3). Group B: Australia: 123 (Ezi Magbegor 18, Jenna O’Hea 17, Cayla George 11, Sara Blicavs 11, Bec Allen 11, Abby Bishop 11, Steph Talbot 11, Lauren Marie Nicholshon 10,Nicole Seekamp9) bt Philippines: 57 (Gemma Miranda 17, Afril Bernardino 15)(38-16,23-18,25-6,42-17); China: 67 (Yuan Li 13, Shao Ting 13, Tongtong Wu 10) bt New Zealand: 44 (Micaela Cocks 10)(8-8,13-9,21-12,25-15).