Eight men's volleyball teams, including Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong and Macao, entered preliminary round 2 while Mongolians and Maldivians had to end their Asiad journey.

The eight winners will compete for another two seats of quarterfinals against India and Thailand while host Qatar has directly entered the last eight with five world championship participants, namely China, Japan, South Korea, Iran and Kazakhstan.

Two of the three matches scheduled on Tuesday were canceled as Maldives and Palestine quit from the matches for illness and traveling difficulties respectively.

The withdrawal of the two teams awarded a default win to Chinese Taipei and United Arab Emirates, which entered the preliminary round 2 as the top finishers of Pool C and Pool D respectively.

Bahrain stunned Mongolia in straight sets 25-16, 25-15,25-16 and entered the next preliminary round along with Lebanon from Pool A.

In Pool B, Saudi Arabia and Macao of China had been guaranteed to reach round 2 as Indonesia quit before the event opened on Sunday.

According to the schedule, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong and Macao were drawn in one group with Thailand and Bahrain while India, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates are in the other. Only the top finishers of two groups qualified for the quarterfinals.

"We have a chance to win our first match in round 2 against Macao as Saudi Arabia had defeated Macao in round 1 and our quality is almost the same with that of Saudi Arabia," said Sanicic Aleksandar, Bahrain's head coach, who led his team to finish fourth at the just-ended Arabian Championship.

"But we will make full preparations for the match. We have recorded Macao's last match and we will study it carefully," said Aleksandar.