Jakarta: In a case of so-near-and-yet-so-far once again, the Indian duo of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa was ousted from the women's doubles quarter-finals of the World Badminton Championships here on Friday.

Jwala and Ashwini, seeded 13th, were looking to repeat their performance of the 2011 Worlds when they clinched the bronze, but several errors against the unseeded Japanese combine of Naoko Fukuman and Kurumi Yonaoat cost them the match at the 9,000-seater Istora Senayan.