Apr 23, 2025 09:39 PM IST
Koneru Humpy wins the Pune Grand Prix, her eighth title, surpassing Hou Yifan. She and Zhu Jiner tie on factors; Humpy claims gold on tiebreaks.
Bengaluru: Koneru Humpy arrived for the ultimate spherical of the Pune Grand Prix on Wednesday with the White items and a win on her thoughts. China’s Zhu Jiner, who was tied on factors with the Indian, had related ambitions. Each ended up profitable their respective Spherical 9 video games, ending the event on 7/9 and splitting the Grand Prix factors and prize cash.
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 sport in opposition to Poland’s Alina Kashlinskaya.
That is Humpy’s document eighth Grand Prix title, surpassing Hou Yifan’s depend of titles.
With this win, Humpy moved to second place within the 2024-2025 Fide Ladies’s Grand Prix standings. Each Humpy and Zhu had been awarded 117.5 factors every. Russia’s Aleksandra Goryachkina presently leads the Grand Prix standings with 308.34 factors, Humpy is at 279.17 and Zhu at 235.
The Fide Ladies’s Grand Prix is a sequence of six tournaments which is able to decide two gamers who qualify for the 2026 Ladies’s Candidates event. The Pune Grand Prix was the fifth leg of the sequence and the sixth and closing leg can be performed in Vienna, Austria between Might 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 by means of 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 superb probability 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 in opposition to 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 in opposition to Alina within the penultimate spherical which proved to be essential in her with the ability to end on high in Pune.
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