Pearly Tan-M Thinaah, who were crowned champions at the Denmark Open last weekend, are hoping to secure a second consecutive World Tour title. (EPA Images pic)PETALING JAYA: Four Malaysian doubles pairs have secured semi-final spots at the French Open badminton championships after winning their quarter-final matches.
This is a record achievement at the prestigious BWF World Tour Super 750 championships.
And history beckons for world No 5 Pearly Tan-M Thinaah, who could add a second title being the only Malaysian women’s doubles pair to have won the crown in the tournament’s 117-year history, in 2022.
In the last eight match early this morning, the Malaysian pair defeated world No 9 Bulgarian sisters Gabriela Stoeva-Stefani Stoeva with a comfortble score of 21-12, 21-15 in a match that took 39 minutes.
