If Indian squash is as transparent at the glass-backed courts of the GBK Sports Complex here, the colour of the three medals bagged on Saturday could have been different.

Dipika Pallikal, Joshna Chinappa and Saurav Ghosal, all lost their singles semi-finals matches and settled for bronze medals. Pallikal first went down to hot favourite Nicol David of Malaysia 3-0 (7-11, 9-11, 6-11), matching her bronze winning show from the last edition at Incheon in 2014. Chinappa was then stunned by Malaysian teenager Sivasangari Subramaniam, 19, in four games (10-12, 6-11, 11-9, 7-11).