Vinesh Phogat was knocked out of the Asian Games selection trials here on Saturday after losing to Meenakshi Goyat 4-6 in a tense semifinal bout of the women’s 53kg event. The loss will dash Vinesh’s hopes of a comeback and her chances of securing a berth at the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan later this year.

“I have not failed. I was fighting a whole system, I was on one side and everyone else on the other. I had to fight for every point,” Vinesh said after her defeat, referring to her longstanding battle with the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI).