| Pearly Tan 陈康乐 | |
| Birth Name: | Pearly Tan Koong Le |
| Country: | Malaysia |
| Birth Date: | 2000 3, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia |
| Height: | 1.64 m |
| Years Active: | 2015-present |
| Handedness: | Right |
| Coach: | Lee Meng Yean Hoon Thien How Rexy Mainaky |
| Event: | Women's & mixed doubles |
| Highest Ranking: | 5 (WD with Thinaah Muralitharan, 31 January 2023) 74 (XD with Man Wei Chong, 17 March 2020) |
| Current Ranking: | 6 |
| Date Of Current Ranking: | WD with Thinaah Muralitharan, 19 November 2024 |
| Bwf Id: | F228EF99-698B-4162-A308-A20C3C422FB7 |
Pearly Tan Koong Le (; born 14 March 2000) is a Malaysian badminton player. An Olympian, she and Thinaah Muralitharan created history by becoming the first ever Malaysian semi-finalists at the women's doubles event at the 2024 Summer Olympics. At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Tan and Muralitharan became gold medalists in the women's doubles and mixed team event.[1] [2]
Tan and her then partner Toh Ee Wei became silver medalists in the girls' doubles events at the 2018 Asian and World Junior Championships.[3] After brief partnerships with Teoh Mei Xing and Lim Chiew Sin in 2019, she went on to win her first senior title at the 2019 Malaysia International Series the same year with her current (as of August 2024) partner Thinaah Muralitharan.
In 2021, Tan and her partner Thinaah Muralitharan clinched their first BWF World Tour title at the Swiss Open.[4]
In 2022, Tan and Muralitharan claimed the French Open title, becoming the first ever Malaysian women's doubles pair to achieve this feat.[5]
In 2023, Tan set a new world record for the fastest women's badminton smash at 438 kilometers per hour. She is the first female badminton player to hold that world record.[6]
Tan and Muralitharan became the first ever Malaysian women's doubles pair to advance to the semi-finals of an Olympic Games at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Ranked 13th in the world at the time, they were drawn alongside Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan from China, Mayu Matsumoto and Wakana Nagahara from Japan, and Apriyani Rahayu and Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti from Indonesia, ranked 1st, 6th, and 9th in the world respectively.[7] Having successfully advanced from the group stage with a 2–1 record, they defeated then ranked 7th in the world Kim So-yeong and Kong Hee-yong from Korea in the quarter-finals in straight sets, before falling to Chen and Jia in the semi-finals and Japan's Nami Matsuyama and Chiharu Shida in the bronze medal match.
Tan was born in Alor Setar, Kedah to Tan Chai Ling and badminton coach Tan Seng Hoe.[8] Her father runs the Alor Setar Racquet Club (ASRC), which is also the childhood club of national shuttlers Lee Zii Jia and Jacky Kok.[9]
| 2022 | National Sports Awards | National women's team (with Thinaah Muralitharan) | [10] |
Women's doubles
Girls' doubles
Girls' doubles
The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018,[13] is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tours are divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, and the BWF Tour Super 100.[14]
Women's doubles
| Year | Tournament | Level | Partner | Opponent | Score | Result | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Swiss Open | Super 300 | Thinaah Muralitharan | Gabriela Stoeva Stefani Stoeva | 21–19, 21–12 | Winner | ||
| 2022 | French Open | Super 750 | Thinaah Muralitharan |  Mayu Matsumoto Wakana Nagahara | 21–19, 18–21, 21–15 | Winner | ||
| 2023 | Malaysia Masters | Super 500 | Thinaah Muralitharan |  Baek Ha-na Lee So-hee | 20–22, 21–8, 17–21 | Runner-up | [15] | |
| 2023 | Hong Kong Open | Super 500 | Thinaah Muralitharan |  Apriyani Rahayu Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti | 21–14, 22–24, 9–21 | Runner-up | [16] | |
| 2024 | Korea Open | Super 500 | Thinaah Muralitharan | Jeong Na-eun Kim Hye-jeong | 12–21, 11–21 | Runner-up | [17] | |
| 2024 | Hong Kong Open | Super 500 | Thinaah Muralitharan |  Liu Shengshu Tan Ning | 21–14, 21–14 | Winner | [18] | |
| 2024 | Arctic Open | Super 500 | Thinaah Muralitharan | Liu Shengshu Tan Ning | 12–21, 17–21 | Runner-up |
Women's doubles
| Year | Tournament | Partner | Opponent | Score | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Malaysia International | Thinaah Muralitharan | Febriana Dwipuji Kusuma Ribka Sugiarto | 21–16, 11–21, 21–18 | Winner | |
| 2019 | Sydney International | Thinaah Muralitharan | Cheng Yu-chieh Tseng Yu-chi | 17–21, 21–17, 13–21 | Runner-up | |
| 2019 | India International | Thinaah Muralitharan | Teoh Mei Xing Yap Ling | 21–18, 21–14 | Winner | |
| 2019 | Bangladesh International | Thinaah Muralitharan |  K. Maneesha Rutaparna Panda | 22–20, 21–19 | Winner |
Mixed doubles
| Year | Tournament | Partner | Opponent | Score | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | India International | Chia Wei Jie | Hoo Pang Ron Cheah Yee See | 15–21, 15–21 | Runner-up | |
| 2019 | Malaysia International | Man Wei Chong | Dong Weijie Chen Xiaofei | 16–21, 19–21 | Runner-up |
BWF International Challenge tournament
BWF International Series tournament