Pearly brushes aside blister blip to march into second round

Women's doubles shuttlers Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah in action during training session at Badminton Association of Malaysia, Bukit Kiara. — FAIHAN GHANI/The Star

ODENSE: Playing with a blister is hard but doubles shuttler Pearly Tan somehow makes it look easy.

Yesterday, top pair Pearly and M. Thinaah had to go the distance to beat Tresa Jolly-Gayatri Gopichand of India 19-21, 21-17, 21-15 to reach the second round of the women’s doubles in the Denmark Open at Jyske Bank Arena.