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Women’s doubles stars Jongkolphan Kititharakul and Rawinda Prajongjai lost in the semi-finals of the US$1.2 million Indonesia Open badminton tournament on Saturday. The seventh seeded pair went down to Japan’s Nami Matsuyama and Chiharu Shida 15-21, 14-21 at the BWF World Tour Super 1000 event at the Istora sporting arena in Jakarta. A day after stunning Chinese top seeds Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan in the quarter-finals, Jongkolphan and Rawinda found their Japanese opponents too much to handle as they lasted just 42 minutes. Matsuyama and Shida will face either second seeds Lee So-Hee and Shi…