Thinaah Muralitharan

In 2021, Thinaah and Tan clinched their first BWF World Tour title at the Swiss Open.^[4]

In 2022, Thinaah and Tan claimed the French Open title, becoming the first ever Malaysian women's doubles pair to achieve this feat.^[5]

Thinaah and her partner Tan best result in 2023 were finalists in the Malaysia Masters and Hong Kong Open.^[6][7]

Thinaah and Tan 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.^[8] 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.

Thinaah and Tan reached their first final in 2024 at the Korea Open, finished as runner-up to home pair Jeong Na-eun and Kim Hye-jeong.^[9]

In 2025, Thinaah enjoyed a breakthrough season alongside her women's doubles partner Pearly Tan, achieving historic and consistent success on the world stage. The duo became the first Malaysia women's doubles to reach the final of the BWF World Championships, capturing the silver medal.^[10] They also secured multiple BWF World Tour title, including victories at the Thailand Open,^[11] Arctic Open,^[12] and Japan Masters.^[13] Their strong performances led them to occupy the BWF ranking of number 2 in July 2025,^[14] and qualified for the Tour Finals in Hangzhou and reached the semi-final.^[15] Thinaah and Tan also ended Malaysia's long wait for women's doubles gold at the SEA Games.^[16]

The next year, Thinaah and Tan won their first title in the Indonesia Masters by January.^[17]

Thinaah is the second child of S. Muralitharan and Parimala Devi Kalalingam.^[18] She has an older brother and a younger sister, Selinaah Muralitharan, who is a former Selangor state shuttler.^[19] She is fluent in all four main languages spoken in Malaysia: Tamil, Malay, English, and Mandarin, in which she picked up from her ethnic Chinese friends whilst studying at Bukit Jalil Sports School.^[20][21] In October 2024, Thinaah graduated with a Bachelor of Education in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) at Open University Malaysia. She was also conferred a special sports icon award during the convocation. ^[22]