“It feels great. When you see the final score, winning with one and a half rounds to spare, everything looks smooth, but that wasn’t really the case. It was a crazy tournament. Kudos to Javokhir, he kept fighting until the very end. I’m just happy I managed to get through. My strategy today was simply not to do anything stupid. Ironically, I managed to do exactly that in the second game. I was completely winning but didn’t take the draw when I had the chance, and I ended up losing. That was exactly what I wanted to avoid. Still, I felt the quality of my games was good, so I just tried to stay in control and not overpush,” Praggnanandhaa said after the win.
