Hong Kong's men's and women's badminton teams were shown no mercy by superpowers China and Indonesia as they were whitewashed out of the Asian Games yesterday. The women's team were given a torrid time in a 5-0 hammering by favourites and reigning Uber Cup champions China, while the men went down by an identical score to Indonesia. Hong Kong coach Chan Chi-choi's verdict after watching China's women sweep aside their Hong Kong opponents was blunt. They are unbeatable, he said. 'There are a lot of world class teams and players here,' Chan said. 'Indonesia . . . Malaysia - they are both strong but I think even if they had been playing China today the result would have been the same,' he added. 'They are in a class of their own. Nobody, not even Indonesia, can stop them.' For Hong Kong's young side it was more useful experience in the bag. For China, spearheaded by world number one Ye Zhaoying , it was just another day in the office. The highlight for Hong Kong, if a 5-0 defeat can have one, came in Ye's 11-1, 13-11 win over Ling Wan-ting. After hardly getting a look-in during the first game, Ling soon found herself 7-1 down in the second, but came back with some determined grafting to take a 10-8 lead. But when she fluffed a straight-forward smash with the court at her mercy, Ling's chance of forcing a third game was gone. Grateful for the let-off, Ye turned the screw and came back to clinch the match. 'Ling played very well, much better than expected,' Chan said. 'But the key difference was self-confidence. She could have won the second game but she missed an easy smash . . . she didn't have the self-belief.' Ling's loss was followed by defeats for Ng Ching, beaten 11-5, 11-1 by Gong Zhichao, and Koon Wai-chee, who crumbled to an 11-5, 11-0 loss at the racquet of Zhang Ning. Qing Yiyuan and Tang Hetian saw off Tung Chau-man and Chan Mei-mei in the first doubles match and the whitewash was completed in the final game, when world number one pair Ge Fei and Gu Jun breezed past Ling and Koon 15-2, 15-6. While Hong Kong's women failed to take a game from their opponents, the SAR's men fared slightly better in their defeat against Indonesia, the reigning Thomas Cup champions. Tam Kai-chuen rocked Hendrawan Hendrawan in the opening singles rubber, when he took the first game 15-12. Hendrawan showed his class for the remainder of the match though, taking the next two games 15-4, 15-2 to snuff out any fanciful Hong Kong thoughts of an upset. Liu Kwok-wa was next up for Hong Kong. Although he briefly held Taufik Hidayat at one game all, he ran out of steam in the decider, eventually losing 5-15, 15-11, 6-15. Indonesia took an unbeatable 3-0 lead in the tie in the doubles when Chandra Wijaya and Tony Gunawan outplayed Chow Kin-man and Yau Kwun-yuen, winning 15-6, 15-1. Ng Wei went down 15-7, 15-2 to Santoso Budi and it was left to Rexy Mainake and Ricky Subagdja to complete the masterclass with a 15-7, 15-4 win over Ma Che-kong and Liu Kwok-wa. 'The boys played bravely but Indonesia are so strong. We've had a terrible draw in both the men's and women's events - we probably had to play the best two teams here,' Chan said.