Thinaah Muralitharan

Thinaah Muralitharan (born 3 January 1998) is a Malaysian badminton player who entered the national team in 2013. She was the gold medalists in the women's doubles and mixed team event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Career
In 2021, Thinaah with her partner Pearly Tan, clinched their first BWF World Tour title in the Swiss Open.

In 2022, Thinaah and Tan claimed the French Open title, becomes the first ever Malaysian women's doubles to achieve this feat.

Personal life
Thinaah is the second child of S. Muralitharan, an engineer and Parimala Devi Kalalingam, a medical doctor. She has an older brother and a younger sister, Selinaah Muralitharan, who is a former Selangor state shuttler. She is fluent in four languages, namely Tamil (mother tongue), Bahasa Malaysia (national language), English and Mandarin, in which she picked up from her ethnic Chinese friends whilst she was studying at the Bukit Jalil Sports School. Since May 2020, Thinaah is pursuing a Bachelor of Education in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) at Open University Malaysia.

Commonwealth Games


Women's doubles

BWF World Tour (2 titles, 2 runners-up)
The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, 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.

Women's doubles

BWF International Challenge/Series (5 titles, 2 runners-up)
Women's singles

Women's doubles
 * BWF International Challenge tournament
 * BWF International Series tournament

Honours of Malaysia

 * Selangor :
 * Bintang Kecemerlangan Sukan Selangor (B.K.S.) (2023)