<figure id="attachment_3078898" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3078898" style="width: 1600px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-3078898" src="https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/634c38bc-pearly-thinaah-bernama-pic-7625.webp" alt="Pearly Thinaah" width="1600" height="1000" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3078898" class="wp-caption-text">Pearly Tan-M Thinaah are hoping to add the Indonesia Open title to the Thai Open title they won last month. (Bernama pic)</figcaption></figure>
PETALING JAYA: National women’s doubles shuttlers Pearly Tan-M Thinaah stormed into the final of the Indonesia Open in Jakarta this evening after defeating their Chinese opponents, making it their third final appearance this season.
The world No 4 pair, who won the Thai Open title last month, had to labour for 63 minutes before beating Li Yi Jing-Luo Xu Min 12-21, 21-17, 21-11 in a match that saw them take an 8-0 lead in the decider before emerging as winners.
An epic showdown awaits Pearly-Thinaah in the final as their opponents will be world No 1 pair Liu Sheng Shu-Tan Ning from China who swept aside South Korea’s world No 3 duo Baek Ha Na-Lee So Hee in straight games.
The top Chinese pair have always been difficult opponents for the Malaysians.
Today&#8217;s win marks the third time that Pearly-Thinaah will be playing in a final this season. Their first final appearance was also at the Istora Stadium in Jakarta during the Indonesia Masters in January, where they lost to South Korea&#8217;s Kim Hye Jeong-Kong Hee-Yong.
Last month, they won the Super 500 Thailand Open, and now, they are in the hunt for their first title in the Super 1000 series, which offers a total prize money of US$1.45 million (RM6.13 million).
Pearly-Thinaah have won a total of four BWF World Tour titles to date.
The winners of the doubles events tomorrow will earn US$107,300 (RM452, 289), and the runners-up US$50,750 (RM214,520). The semi-finalists take home US$20,300 (RM85,898).

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Pearly-Thinaah make superb comeback to enter Indonesia Open final

The world No 4 pair rally from a game down to defeat China’s Li Yi Jing-Luo Xu Min in their semi-final clash.

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