KUALA LUMPUR: Top women’s doubles pair Pearly Tan-M Thinaah hope to continue their positive streak when they face South Korea’s Lee Yu-lim-Shin Seung-chan in the semi-finals of the 2024 Malaysia Masters tournament tomorrow.
Featured as the tournament’s second seeds and last year’s finalists, they needed just 31 minutes to defeat Australia’s Setyana Mapasa-Angela Yu 21-16, 21-8 in today’s quarter-final round.
Thinaah, 26, said booking the first semi-final slot of the season was an achievement to be proud of, but she refused to be swayed by the success.
“We still want to improve ourselves. I think the South Koreans are not easy opponents so we just need to focus on each other and get a good rest before tomorrow’s game,” she told reporters here today.
Pearly, on the other hand, feels that the strategy and better preparation are the factors for today’s victory and she hopes that it will be maintained throughout the tournament.
Pearly-Thinaah’s performance this season was seen as uninspiring when they were shown the way out as early as the first round in the Malaysian Open, the French Open and the Asian Badminton Championships.
They were then eliminated in the second round of the India Open, besides being eliminated in the quarter-finals of the All England and the Indonesia Masters.
At the Malaysia Masters last year, Pearly-Thinaah emerged as runners-up after they were defeated by the South Korean pair, Baek Ha Na and Lee So Hee, 20-22, 21-8 and 17-21.
The other semi-final will be between tournament top seeds Rin Iwanaga-Kie Nakanishi of Japan and Bulgarian pair Gabriela Stoeva-Stefani Stoeva. - FMT
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