The experienced Surya Shekhar Ganguly, GM Raunak Sadhwani and GM Karthik Venkatraman scored comfortable victories while M Pranesh played out a draw to advance to the second round while IM Aronyak Ghosh defeated GM Mateusz Bartel of Poland to force a tie-breaker in the FIDE World Cup 2025 her
World Junior champion GM Pranav V, GM Pranesh M and the experienced GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly began their FIDE World Cup 2025 campaign with comfortable victories, while Women's World Cup winner Divya Deshmukh's spirited fight wasn't enough to salvage a draw in the first match of the opening r