Koneru Humpy wins Pune GP

Humpy, nonetheless, was declared Pune GP winner on superior tiebreak of most video games with Black and took house the gold medal. Jiner, took silver and the third place went to 19-year-old Indian IM Divya Deshmukh, who drew her closing spherical recreation towards Poland’s Alina Kashlinskaya.

That is Humpy’s document eighth Grand Prix title, surpassing Hou Yifan’s rely of titles.

With this win, Humpy moved to second place within the 2024-2025 Fide Girls’s Grand Prix standings. Each Humpy and Zhu have been awarded 117.5 factors every. Russia’s Aleksandra Goryachkina at present leads the Grand Prix standings with 308.34 factors, Humpy is at 279.17 and Zhu at 235.

The Fide Girls’s Grand Prix is a collection of six tournaments which can decide two gamers who qualify for the 2026 Girls’s Candidates match. The Pune Grand Prix was the fifth leg of the collection and the sixth and closing leg shall be performed in Vienna, Austria between Could 5-16. Humpy has already accomplished her stipulated three tournaments (that gamers are required to play out of six) and her path to the Candidates via the Grand Prix route will now hinge on the outcomes of Zhu, Anna Muzychuk and Tan Zhongyi. As issues stand, 22-year-old Zhu holds a very good likelihood at qualification.

The 38-year-old Humpy – who received the ladies’s world speedy title final 12 months and was by no means fairly in bother towards Bulgarian IM Nurgyul Salimova within the closing spherical, took down Zhu in Spherical 7 earlier than she salvaged a draw from the jaws of defeat towards Alina within the penultimate spherical which proved to be essential in her with the ability to end on prime in Pune.