After Coonu Hampi, Divya Deshmukh has also reached the semifinals of the Chess Fide Women's World Cup 2025. With this, for the first time, two Indian women have been able to make it to the tournament semifinals.
On Sunday, Coonu Hampi became the first Indian woman to arrive in the semifinals. The tournament is being played in Georgia's batumi.
Divya defeated Harika Dronavalli in a tie break In the quarter -finals played on Monday, Divya Deshmukh defeated Harika Dronavalli in the same and fixed its place in the semifinals. Both Divya and Harika's classical matches were drawn and in a tie-break, Divya won both matches and entered the semifinals. Now in the semifinals, it will face Tan Zhongi.
Konnaru Humpy beats a Chinese player At the same time, Konaru Humpy defeated China's Song Yuxin and fixed his place in the semifinals. He won the first game, while the second game was a draw. He will now play against China's Lei Tingji in the semifinals.
For the first time four Indian women players reached the quarter -finals For the first time in this tournament, four Indian women players reached the quarter -finals. In addition to Konera Hampi, Harika Dronavalli, R. Vaishali and Divya Deshmukh secured their place in the quarter -finals.
Vaishali was defeated Vaishali Rameshbabu suffered a defeat against China's third -seeded Tan Zhongi. With this, his campaign ended in the tournament. Vaishali defeated Kazakhstan's Merurt Kamlidanova and fixed his place in the quarter -finals.
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