Tokyo: The country’s top women’s doubles team Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah advanced to the quarter-finals of the 2025 Japan Open Badminton Championship after defeating Taiwanese pair, Hsieh Pei Shan-Hung En Tzu, in the second round today. Starting as the third seeds, Pearly and Thinaah had no trouble taking the lead with a 21-14 win in the first set, before clinching the second set 21-16 in 35 minutes at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium.

According to BERNAMA News Agency, the Thailand Open champions are scheduled to meet South Korean pair, Jeong Na-eun-Lee Yeon Woo in the quarter-finals. Accompanying their progress was the national professional men’s doubles team Goh Sze Fei-Nur Izzuddin Rumsani when they easily defeated the Japanese pair, Hiroki Midorikawa-Kyohei Yamashita 21-19, 21-18. The pair, ranked number one in the world, will face the world number five, Fajar Alfian-Muhammad Shohibul Fikri of Indonesia in the quarter-finals.

Another men’s pair, Man Wei Chong-Tee Kai Wun, advanced when they defeated Huang Di-Liu Yang from China, 21-19, 14-21, 22-20. The sixth seeds of the tournament will face the third seeds from South Korea, Kim Won Ho-Seo Seung Jae in the quarter-finals.

Other results from the tournament included Malaysian men’s doubles team Ong Yew Sin-Teo Ee Yi defeating Chen Zhi Yi-Presley Smith of the USA 19-21, 21-14, 21-19. Nur Mohd Azriyn Ayub Azriyn-Tan Wee Kiong also advanced by beating fourth seeds Kim Astrup-Anders Skaarup Rasmussen from Denmark 21-16, 15-21, 21-19. In the mixed doubles, fourth seeds Chen Tang Jie-Toh Ee Wei secured victory over Jafar Hidayatullah-Felisha Pasaribu from Indonesia 17-21, 21-16, 21-12, while sixth seeds Goh Soon Huat-Shevon Lai Jemie won against Terry Hee Yong Kai-Jin Yu Jia from Singapore 21-14, 21-17. The second seeds Jiang Zhenbang-Wei Yaxin from China defeated Malaysian pair Hoo Pang Ron-Cheng Su Yin 21-9, 21-6.