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Australia defeated Korea 3-2 and New Zealand beat Belgium 4-3 in the opening women's Group A games of the Rabobank Hockey World Cup in the Netherlands on Saturday.

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Australia and Korea played out a thrilling match in their opening Group A game of the Rabobank Hockey World Cup in the Netherlands on Saturday.

Korea's Park Mihyun fired the ball across the circle to an unmarked Cheon Eunbi for a 1-0 lead.

The Hockeyroos came back into the game when Emily Hurtz equalised.

Anna Flangan had already completed the comeback for Australia when she converted a penalty stroke to make it 3-1.

Korea pulled one back but 3-2 it finished.

Whatever you can do, we can do better was the message as New Zealand and Belgium scored seven goals between them in their Group A clash.

Krystal Forgesson opened the scoring before New Zealand raced into a 4-0 lead.

But Barbara Nelen started the comeback before Belgium scored twice more. Nevertheless, the Black Sticks' didn't come unstuck and ran out 4-3 victors.