Unlike on board 3, where everything went as Laysa planned, the game between Medina and Harika Dronavalli on board 2 was definitely the game that Medina wanted to get over as quickly as possible. In this clash, she was getting outplayed even from the beginning of the game, not being able to get any room to breathe, just within the first ten moves.
Harika Dronavalli really showed why she was one of the best women's players in the world, playing a clean game without any nonsense shenanigans allowed on the board.
The woman managed to take advantage of Medina's eagerness to rush forward at the beginning of the game to push back, locking all of Medina's pieces on her own territory without any room to move freely. Even though the Indonesian IM didn't really make that much of a mistake, Harika managed to occupy a lot of strategic squares, which in the end allowed the Indian GM to slowly convert it into her own advantage.
