KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 11 — National top women’s doubles pair Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah had no trouble advancing to the quarter-finals of the 2025 Hong Kong Open Badminton Championships.
In their second-round match at the Hong Kong Coliseum, the second seeds and defending champions easily defeated Indonesia’s Febriana Dwipuji Kusuma-Meilyssa Trias Puspitasari 21-18, 21-17 in just 38 minutes.
Awaiting the world number two pair are either compatriots Go Pei Kee-Teoh Mei Xing or Taiwan’s Hsu Ya Ching-Sung Yu-Hsuan.
Meanwhile, it was disappointment for men’s doubles pair Man Wei Chong-Tee Kai Wun, who were eliminated by Taiwan’s Lee Jhe-Huei-Yang Po-Hsuan 17-21, 21-11, 15-21.
Earlier, national men’s doubles pair Wan Arif Wan Junaidi-Yap Roy King also advanced after defeating compatriots Choong Hon Jian-Muhammad Haikal Nazri 21-17, 21-19, setting up a clash with India’s Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty.
In another match, men’s singles shuttler Aidil Sholeh Ali Sadikin fell short, losing to sixth seed Christo Popov of France 17-21, 19-21. — Bernama