All games drawn in game 1 as rating favorites will have white in game 2

Quarterfinals (game 1)

Aronian, Levon - Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime ½-½
Grischuk, Alexander - Ding, Liren ½-½
Vitiugov, Nikita - Yu, Yangyi ½-½
Xiong, Jeffery - Radjabov, Teimour ½-½