<figure id="attachment_3079388" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3079388" style="width: 1600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3079388 size-full" src="https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/744a2f05-pearly-thinaah-bernama-080625-2.webp" alt="pearly thinaah" width="1600" height="1000" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3079388" class="wp-caption-text">Pearly Tan-M Thinaah have found Liu Sheng Shu-Tan Ning hard to crack, losing eight out of their 10 encounters so far. (Bernama pic)</figcaption></figure>
PETALING JAYA: Women’s doubles shuttlers Pearly Tan-M Thinaah’s hopes of their first World Tour Super 1000 title were dashed by world No 1 pair Liu Sheng Shu-Tan Ning from China in the Indonesia Open final.
World No 4 duo Pearly-Thinaah, who had been having a great run at the Istora Stadium in Jakarta, lost 25-23, 12-21, 19-21 in a marathon match lasting 86 minutes.
Despite the loss, Pearly-Thinaah can stand tall as they had shown remarkable fighting spirit in the championships, especially in the quarter-final and semi-final matches where they came from a game down to win the matches.
Pearly-Thinaah have now met the Chinese pair 10 times in their career and have only won twice.
The Malaysian pair had won four titles in their career so far and were hoping to make this their fifth and their first in the Super 1000 series, but this did not materialise.
Pearly-Thinaah won the Thailand Open title last month.
The Malaysian pair earned prize money of US$50,750 (RM214,570) as runners-up. The winners take home US$107,300 (RM453, 670).
Malaysia has been experiencing a title drought in the women’s doubles for 16 years, with Chin Ee Hui-Wong Pei Tty being the last winners in 2009.

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Chinese pair dashes Pearly-Thinaah’s hopes of first Super 1000 title

They lost to world No 1 pair Liu Sheng Shu-Tan Ning at the Indonesia Open in a marathon match lasting 86 minutes.

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