PARIS, Aug 4 – The country’s top women’s doubles pair Pearly Tan-M Thinaah’s hopes of contributing Malaysia’s first medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics was dashed when they lost in the bronze medal playoff.
The 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games champions lost 11-21, 11-21 to world number four pair from Japan, Nami Matsuyama-Chiharu Shida at the Porte de La Chapelle Arena on a day that saw everything go wrong for the Malaysian pair who probably tried too hard.
Malaysia’s women’s doubles Pearly Tan and Thinaah Muralitharan in action against Japan’s Nami Matsuyama and Shiharu Shida in the bronze medal match of the badminton event at the Paris 2024 Olympics at Porte De La Chapelle Arena.
The national doubles pair continued to falter with easy mistakes in the second set, seeing Matsuyama-Shida record their 10th win against them.
