Pearly-Thinaah sign new four-year contract with BAM

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National women's doubles pair Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah will continue to don the national jersey until the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games after signing a new four-year contract with the Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) on Thursday (July 10).   Read more at https://tinyurl.com/ymzbx97j   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news  SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar  LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:01National No. 1 women's double shuttlers Perlitan and Mthina

00:05will continue to don the national jersey until the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.

00:12They signed a new four-year contract with the Badminton Association of Malaysia on Thursday evening.

00:19At 6.31pm today.

00:21I signed today but effective day too is something that I cannot disclose.

00:26Again, I can't share the amount.

00:30Unless it is enough.

00:32Hopefully, can you?

00:35Yeah, I mean, it's not either parties to prolong the four contracts

00:40just because our tournament was already back to back and all.

00:43But we are really relieved that everything has come to an agreement.

00:49The World No. 3 pair, whose contract with BAM ended in December last year,

00:55finally agreed to the New Deal after months of negotiations for better perks

00:59incentives and salaries.

01:01The pair and BAM President Tunku Datuk Sri Zafrul Abdul Aziz made the announcement in a press conference

01:08soon after both parties inked the agreement.

01:11Perlitan will be evaluated based on key performance indicators and any additional incentives will depend on their results.

01:21They will take part in back-to-back tournaments this month, starting with the Japan Open from July 15th to 20th,

01:27followed by the China Open and the World Championships in Paris.

01:31Reports said that the pair had agreed to remain with the national team, despite their original demands not being fully met.

01:38It is believed that they had initially requested a salary of over one million ringgit, but BAM remained firm during negotiations.

01:47Lights out.

01:48�

02:03Sounds.

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