KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's women's doubles Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah's semi-final hopes ended after their shock loss to India's Treesa Jolly-Gayathri Gopichand at the World Tour Finals (WTF) in Hangzhou, China, today.
World No 6. Pearly-Thinaah, who needed a win in Group A to stay alive, fell to a 21-19, 21-19 defeat against world No. 13 Treesa-Gayathri in 46 minutes.
The Malaysians went into the match with a good 6-1 head-to-head record before the India pair delivered the shock knockout.
Pearly-Thinaah lost their first group match to Japan's world No. 4 Nami Matsuyama-Chiharu Shida in three games on Wednesday. They will meet China's world No. 1 Liu Sheng Shu-Tan Ning in their final group match tomorrow.
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