New Delhi, July 24 -- India's Koneru Humpy outclassed China's Tingjie Lei in a thrilling comeback to storm into the final of the FIDE Women's World Cup on Thursday to set up a summit clash date with compatriot Divya Deshmukh on Thursday. Both Humpy and Tingjie fought hard in eight games but it was the Indian grandmaster who won 5-3 in the semifinal.

In the first two classical games in the semifinal, Humpy and Tingjie played long-fought draws, where no player gained advantage, thus forcing them to tie-breaks, which were played as Rapid games.

The scoreline didn't change as the first two games in Rapid were draws. It was the third Rapid game that saw the Chinese GM found her groove as she capitalised on a blunder from Humpy in the endgame...