Malaysia Masters: Pearly-Thinaah breeze into semis

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Malaysia's No. 2 seed Pearly Tan and M. Thinaah sailed into the women's doubles semi-finals of the Malaysia Masters after beating Setyana Mapasa-Angela Yu of Australia 21-16, 21-8 in the quarterfinals on Friday (May 24). The Malaysian pair was the losing finalist in the 2023 edition.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 I think it's a good win for both of us.

00:09 We felt positive on court and compared to yesterday's match we think we did better today but we

00:16 still hope to do even better for tomorrow's game.

00:19 It's not easy to win the second set but we know that you have to beat the top pair. Do you feel that it's easy?

00:28 I don't think it's easy. But like I said just now, we prepared well since yesterday because we know that

00:35 they have upset a lot of seeded players in the previous tournament. So we prepared well for today's match and

00:41 I'm very happy for today's match.

00:44 The preliminaries and semifinals of the year, tomorrow you will face Korea. So you will be playing in the break?

00:51 I think it's not easy for Korea to play but for now we just want to focus on each other and get a good rest for

01:01 today before tomorrow's game.

01:03 Guys, you met them in the MAMATO Masters last year. It was quite a tough match but you managed to win.

01:08 So your thoughts on this pair? How do you feel?

01:12 As I said, we want to keep focus on our own strategy. We want to juggle momentum like today.

01:20 So we just hope to keep the consistency.

01:23 Are you guys feeling positive after reaching the first semifinal for the CIS? If your confidence is there?

01:29 It's been some time since we played the tournament also. So reaching the semifinals is definitely a good

01:36 achievement but definitely won't stop here. We still want to improve more on ourselves and be ready for tomorrow's match.

01:43 Thank you.

01:45 Thank you.

01:47 Thank you.

01:49 Thank you.

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