Jakarta Aug 25 (IANS) Indian women racqueteers Dipika Pallikal Karthik and Joshana Chinappa settled for bronze in the squash women s singles after going down in their respective semi-final matches of the 18th Asian Games here on Saturday.
While Dipika lost 0-3 (7-11 9-11 6-11) to defending champion and former World No.1 Nicol David of Malaysia Joshana went down 1-3 (5-11 10-12 11-5 10-12) to another Malaysian Sivasangari Subramaniam.
The 26-year old Dipika had beaten Japanese Kobayashi Misaki 3-0 in the quarter-finals while Joshana beat Hong Kong s Chan Ho Ling by a similar margin to advance to the last four stage.
At the Asiad both losing semi-finalists bag a bronze and there is no bronze medal play-off.
David has won the Asian Games singles titles four times earlier.

--IANS dm-tri/bg