Veteran player Rani Rampal failed to make the cut after she failed to recover from an injury she sustained after the Tokyo Olympics.
India Women came up with an inspired show as they scored three goals in a span of four minutes to seal the match 4-0.
India and USA are once again set to lock horns in the second match of the tie on Wednesday.
Manpreet Singh returns as captain to lead an 18-member Indian team in the upcoming Commonwealth Games 2022.
India needed an outright win over the Netherlands to earn a shot at the title but that was not the case as the Dutch denied a valiant Indian attack a win in the second match of the tie.
India's men's & women's hockey teams have flown out to Belgium to compete in the FIH Pro Hockey league which will give them enough game time ahead of the mega event.
The Indian women's team is comfortably placed at the third spot in the FIH Pro League table with 22 points in eight games. As of now, they are just behind table toppers Argentina (38 points) and the Netherlands in second place (26 points).
India, who had topped the five-team league standings with three wins and one draw en route final, ended their campaign with an unbeaten record.
India defeated Japan 1-0 to win the Bronze medal in the Asia Cup 2022. Rajkumar Pal scored an early goal as an inexperienced India dished out a fine performance to outclass Japan in Jakarta on Wednesday.
Korea will now take on Malaysia in the final on Wednesday, while India will play Japan in the third-fourth place classification match
Just a day after Malaysia's Razie Rahim scored a hat-trick in a thrilling contest that ended in a draw, defending champions India would look for a win against South Korea to proceed into the finals of the Asia Cup men's hockey tournament.
In the Super 4s, India, Japan, South Korea and Malaysia will play each other once with the top two teams progressing to the final.
The India men's hockey team pumped in a record 16 goals to beat Indonesia 16-0 and qualify for the knockout stage of the Asia Cup 2022 on Thursday.
Japan put on an absolute exhibition as they literally went through the Indian team to beat them 5-2 n a group A league match of the men's Asia Cup hockey championship
The Defending champions took the lead in the ninth minute when Karthi Selvam scored his first international goal for India. However, Abdul Rana equalized in the 59th minute from a penalty corner
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