China recovered from two consecutive defeats by wining on Friday 4-1 over South Africa on the 3rd date of the Group B, of the Women's Field Hockey World Cup being hosted in Rosario city, 300km to Buenos Aires, Argentina's capital.

The goals were scored by Ren Ye at the minute 26, Fun Baorong at the minute 44 and Gao Lihua scored two, one at the minute 58 and the other at the 60.

Meanwhile, South Africa's goal was scored by Jennifer Wilson at the minute 4. With this triumph, China got its first three points at the World Cup.

The match was played at 9:00 a.m. local time (1200 GMT) in the stadium of Rosario, which was supposed to be played on Thursday, but was suspended due to the pouring rain.

The next matches of the Group B are England (6 points) vs South Korea (3) and Argentina (6) vs Spain (0).

The matches for the Group A will be Germany (6) vs India (0), the Netherlands (6) vs Australia (6) and Japan (0) vs New Zealand (0).

Top two teams of each group will qualify for the semifinals, to be played on September 11.