Round 3 matchups:
Upper bracket
Matveeva (2412) vs. Ushenina (2476)
T. Konsintseva (2511) vs. Kosteniuk (2510)
Stefanova (2550) vs. Gaponenko (2468)
Cramling (2544) vs. Ruan (2499)
Lower bracket
Koneru (2622) vs. Hoang Thanh (2487)
Shen Yang (2445) vs. N. Kosintseva (2460)
Yifan Hou (2577) vs. Sedina (2344)
Mkrtchian (2436) vs. Harika (2461)
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
something wrong! where is Harika in this?
probably Dronavalli vs. Mkrtchian,
not Mkrtchian vs. Mkrtchian
Where Mkrtchian vs Mkrtchian 🙂
Koneru and Hou Yifan are the 2 top rated players.
Why are they in the same low bracket ?
HT
Because the World champion Xu Yuhua was seeded first.