<figure id="attachment_3079387" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3079387" style="width: 1600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-3079387" src="https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/3a8582f1-pearly-thinaah-bernama-080625-1.webp" alt="pearly thinaah" width="1600" height="1000" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3079387" class="wp-caption-text">Top seeds Pearly Tan-M Thinaah are playing in the SEA Games for the first time. (Bernama pic)</figcaption></figure>
PETALING JAYA: National women’s doubles shuttlers Pearly Tan-M Thinaah kept their hopes of winning the gold medal at the SEA Games alive after a hard-fought victory over Indonesian pair Allessya Rose-Febi Setianingrum to advance to the final.
The world No 2 pair and top seeds in games held in Bangkok, Thailand, had to battle for 78 minutes before overcoming the 58th-ranked Indonesian pair 21-14, 19-21, 21-16.
The Malaysian duo are playing in the SEA Games for the first time.
In the final, they will face either Vietnam’s Bui Bich Phuong-Trang Vu Thi or Indonesian pair Febriana Dwipuji Kusuma-Meilysa Trias Puspitasari.

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