Women Grandmasters Nisha Mohota and Kruttika Nadig had it easy against Sachini Ranasinghe of Sri Lanka and Monalisa Khamboo of Nepal respectively in the fifth round.

Results: (Indians otherwise stated)

Men (Round-7) :- GM Praveen Thipsay (5.5) drew IM K Rathnakran (4.5); GM Neelotpal Das (6) beat Surbir Lama of Nepal (2.5); GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (5) beat Ahmed Ashraf of Maldives (1) ; GM Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh (4.5) lost to IM Sriram Jha (5.5); Hapurachchi HLM of Sri Lanka (1) lost to Amir Karim of Pakistan (2); GM Reefat Bin-Sattar of Bangladesh (2) beat Gillani Tunveer of Pakistan (2.5); Kesav Malla of Bhutan(0) got bye

Women (Round-5):- IM Tania Sachdev (4) drew with WGM Swathi Ghate (1); Sachini Ranasinghe of Sri Lanka (1) lost to WGM Nisha Mohota (3) ; Monalisa Khumboo of Nepal (0) lost to WGM Kruttika Nadig (3.5) ; Sultana Sharmin Shirin of Bangladesh (2.5) got bye.