Srinath Narayanan, former coach of Grandmaster Divya Deshmukh, compared her to ex-India captain MS Dhoni. He said, "Her strength is, I think, turning up in those big moments, crunch situations. Like how Mahendra Singh Dhoni used to win the matches in the last over." The 19-year-old became the first-ever Indian to win the Women's Chess World Cup.