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Thinaah Muralitharan

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Malaysian doubles badminton player
In thisTamil name, there is nosurname or family name. The nameMuralitharan is apatronym, and the person should be referred to by theirgiven name,Thinaah.

Badminton player
Thinaah Muralitharan
தீனா முரளிதரன்
Thinaah at the 2022 Commonwealth Games medal ceremony.
Personal information
CountryMalaysia
Born (1998-01-03)3 January 1998 (age 27)
Klang,Selangor, Malaysia
Height1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Years active2013–present
HandednessRight
CoachRosman Razak
Women's & mixed doubles
Highest ranking2 (WD withPearly Tan, 29 July 2025)
282 (XD withTee Kai Wun, 3 March 2020)
Current ranking2 (WD with Pearly Tan, 11 November 2025)
BWF profile

Thinaah MuralitharanBKS (born 3 January 1998) is a Malaysianbadminton player. She and her partnerPearly Tan won thewomen's doubles silver medals at the2025 World Championships and reached thewomen's doubles semi-finals at the2024 Summer Olympics. They also won gold medals in both thewomen's doubles and themixed team events at the2022 Commonwealth Games. They became the first ever Malaysian World Championship medalists and Olympic semi-finalists in the women's doubles event. Their results at the World Championships and the Olympic Games made them the most successful Malaysian badminton women's doubles pair in the history.[1][2][3]

Career

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In 2021, Thinaah and Tan clinched their first BWF World Tour title at theSwiss Open.[4]

In 2022, Thinaah and Tan claimed theFrench Open title, becoming the first ever Malaysian women's doubles pair to achieve this feat.[5]

Thinaah and her partner Tan best result in 2023 were finalists in theMalaysia Masters andHong Kong Open.[6][7]

Thinaah and Tan became the first ever Malaysian women's doubles pair to advance to the semi-finals of an Olympic Games at the2024 Paris Olympics. Ranked 13th in the world at the time, they were drawn alongsideChen Qingchen andJia Yifan from China,Mayu Matsumoto andWakana Nagahara from Japan, andApriyani Rahayu andSiti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti from Indonesia, ranked 1st, 6th, and 9th in the world respectively.[8] Having successfully advanced from the group stage with a 2–1 record, they defeated then ranked 7th in the worldKim So-yeong andKong Hee-yong from Korea in the quarter-finals in straight sets, before falling to Chen and Jia in the semi-finals and Japan'sNami Matsuyama andChiharu Shida in the bronze medal match.

Thinaah and Tan reached their first final in 2024 at theKorea Open, finished as runner-up to home pairJeong Na-eun andKim Hye-jeong.[9]

Personal life

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Thinaah is the second child of S. Muralitharan and Parimala Devi Kalalingam.[10] She has an older brother and a younger sister, Selinaah Muralitharan, who is a former Selangor state shuttler.[11] She is fluent in all four main languages spoken in Malaysia:Tamil,Malay,English, andMandarin, in which she picked up from herethnic Chinese friends whilst studying atBukit Jalil Sports School.[12][13] In October 2024, Thinaah graduated with a Bachelor of Education inTeaching English as a Second Language (TESL) atOpen University Malaysia. She was also conferred a special sports icon award during the convocation.[14]

Awards

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YearAwardCategoryResult
2022Selangor Sports Awards2021-2022 Selangor SportswomanWon[15]
National Sports AwardsNational women's team (with Pearly Tan)Won[16]
2023Nambikkai Star Icon AwardsBest Sports PersonalityWon[17]
2024Dr. Ambedkar International AwardWon[18]
Open University Malaysia 28th ConvocationSports IconWon[14]

Honours

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Honours of Malaysia

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Achievements

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World Championships

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Women's doubles

YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResultRef
2025Adidas Arena,
Paris, France		MalaysiaPearly TanChinaLiu Shengshu
ChinaTan Ning		14–21, 22–20, 17–21SilverSilver[20]

Commonwealth Games

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The six medallists in the women's badminton doubles at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Left to right:Chloe Birch andLauren Smith (England),Pearly Tan and Thinaah Muralitharan (Malaysia),Treesa Jolly andGayathri Gopichand (India).

Women's doubles

YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResultRef
2022National Exhibition Centre,
Birmingham, England		MalaysiaPearly TanEnglandChloe Birch
EnglandLauren Smith		21–5, 21–8GoldGold[21]

BWF World Tour (6 titles, 7 runners-up)

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The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018,[22] is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by theBadminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tours are divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, and the BWF Tour Super 100.[23]

Women's doubles

YearTournamentLevelPartnerOpponentScoreResultRef
2021Swiss OpenSuper 300MalaysiaPearly TanBulgariaGabriela Stoeva
BulgariaStefani Stoeva		21–19, 21–121st place, gold medalist(s)Winner[24]
2022French OpenSuper 750Malaysia Pearly TanJapanMayu Matsumoto
JapanWakana Nagahara		21–19, 18–21, 21–151st place, gold medalist(s)Winner[25]
2023Malaysia MastersSuper 500Malaysia Pearly TanSouth KoreaBaek Ha-na
South KoreaLee So-hee		20–22, 21–8, 17–212nd place, silver medalist(s)Runner-up[6]
2023Hong Kong OpenSuper 500Malaysia Pearly TanIndonesiaApriyani Rahayu
IndonesiaSiti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti		21–14, 22–24, 9–212nd place, silver medalist(s)Runner-up[7]
2024Korea OpenSuper 500Malaysia Pearly TanSouth KoreaJeong Na-eun
South KoreaKim Hye-jeong		12–21, 11–212nd place, silver medalist(s)Runner-up[9]
2024Hong Kong OpenSuper 500Malaysia Pearly TanChinaLiu Shengshu
ChinaTan Ning		21–14, 21–141st place, gold medalist(s)Winner[26]
2024Arctic OpenSuper 500Malaysia Pearly TanChina Liu Shengshu
China Tan Ning		12–21, 17–212nd place, silver medalist(s)Runner-up[27]
2025Indonesia MastersSuper 500Malaysia Pearly TanSouth Korea Kim Hye-jeong
South KoreaKong Hee-yong		12–21, 21–17, 18–212nd place, silver medalist(s)Runner-up[28]
2025Thailand OpenSuper 500Malaysia Pearly TanSouth Korea Jeong Na-eun
South KoreaLee Yeon-woo		21–16, 21–171st place, gold medalist(s)Winner[29]
2025Indonesia OpenSuper 1000Malaysia Pearly TanChina Liu Shengshu
China Tan Ning		25–23, 12–21, 19–212nd place, silver medalist(s)Runner-up[30]
2025Japan OpenSuper 750Malaysia Pearly TanChina Liu Shengshu
China Tan Ning		15–21, 14–212nd place, silver medalist(s)Runner-up[31]
2025Arctic OpenSuper 500Malaysia Pearly TanJapanRin Iwanaga
JapanKie Nakanishi		21–7, 21–91st place, gold medalist(s)Winner[32]
2025Japan MastersSuper 500Malaysia Pearly TanJapan Rin Iwanaga
Japan Kie Nakanishi		22–20, 21–191st place, gold medalist(s)Winner[33]

BWF International Challenge/Series (5 titles, 2 runners-up)

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Women's singles

YearTournamentOpponentScoreResult
2018Iran Fajr InternationalMalaysiaLee Ying Ying11–8, 11–6, 9–11, 11–91st place, gold medalist(s)Winner
2018Dutch InternationalDenmarkJulie Dawall Jakobsen21–17, 15–21, 11–212nd place, silver medalist(s)Runner-up

Women's doubles

YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
2018Malaysia InternationalMalaysia Payee Lim Peiy YeeChinese Taipei Cheng Yu-chieh
Chinese Taipei Chung Kan-yu		21–17, 21–141st place, gold medalist(s)Winner
2019Malaysia InternationalMalaysiaPearly TanIndonesiaFebriana Dwipuji Kusuma
IndonesiaRibka Sugiarto		21–16, 11–21, 21–181st place, gold medalist(s)Winner
2019Sydney InternationalMalaysia Pearly TanChinese Taipei Cheng Yu-chieh
Chinese Taipei Tseng Yu-chi		17–21, 21–17, 13–212nd place, silver medalist(s)Runner-up
2019India InternationalMalaysia Pearly TanMalaysiaTeoh Mei Xing
MalaysiaYap Ling		21–18, 21–141st place, gold medalist(s)Winner
2019Bangladesh InternationalMalaysia Pearly TanIndiaK. Maneesha
IndiaRutaparna Panda		22–20, 21–191st place, gold medalist(s)Winner
 BWF International Challenge tournament
 BWF International Series tournament

References

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