Odisha and Indian Oil International Master Padmini Rout has qualified to compete in the FIDE Women World Cup 2021, which is scheduled to take place from 10 July to 4 August in Sochi, Russia, simultaneously with the FIDE Open World Cup. The FIDE Women World Cup 2021 will be played in 7 rounds, knock-out system, with 103 players and a prize pool of 676,000 dollars.

As many as four players from India have qualified for the Women World Cup. Other three are GM Koneru Humpy, GM Dronavalli Harika and IM Bhakti Kulkarni. Padmini has qualified as the 2018 Asian Continental champion. Humpy and Harika have made it by rating, while Kulkarni has made the cut from Women Zonal 3.5 Championship.

Most of the participants for the Women World Cup are already known with Canada (Zone 3.2) as the only remaining federation to run qualifiers in early June. The participation list will be completed by June 5 after the selection of 39 players from 39 different federations.

Federations have been given the right to nominate any player from their rating list, according to the average rating of their five highest-rated women players in the December 2020 FIDE rating list.