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    The Hindu

    NEW DELHI, September 26, 2009
    Two easy wins for India

    Defending champion India made a good start to its title-defence when
    it swept aside Sri Lanka and England by identical 4-0 score-lines in
    the first two rounds of the World Youth Under-16 Olympiad at Akhisar,
    Turkey.

    While second seed India and fellow joint leader fifth seed Georgia won
    by the biggest margins, top seed Russia dropped half a point to
    lowly-rated Turkey-Girls White and later drew 2-2 with sixth seed
    Azerbaijan to slip further in the standings.

    The competition follows the game-points system, and not match-points
    as adopted in the Olympiad and the World team championship. That means
    the margin of each victory assumes great importance in a team's final
    standing.

    Leading results:

    Second round: India beat England 4-0 (K. Priyadarshan bt Zhao
    Yang-Fan; Debashis Das bt Akash Jain; Girish Koushik bt S. Saravanan;
    Deepthamsh Reddy bt Samuel Walker); Greece lost to Georgia 0-4;
    Turkey-Turkauz bt Turkey-Red 3-1; Azerbaijan drew with Russia 2-2;
    Hungary bt Uzbekistan 2.5-1.5.

    First round: Russia bt Turkey-Girls White 3.5-0.5; Sri Lanka lost to
    India 0-4 (Y. Kuruwitage lost to Priyadarshan; Semuthu Pinto lost to
    Aditya Udeshi; Keshan Egodage lost to Girish Koushik; Thisura
    Munasinghe lost to Deepthamsh Reddy); Armenia bt Turkey White 3-1;
    Turkey-Girls Red lost to Hungary 0.5-3.5; Georgia bt South Africa `B'
    4-0.

    Top-10 standings (after two rounds): 1-2. Georgia, India (8 points
    each), 3. Turkey (7), 4. Armenia (6.5), 5. Hungary (6),
    6-7. Azerbaijan, Russia (5.5 each), 8-9. Uzbekistan, Turkey-Red (5
    each), 10. Turkey-White (4.5).

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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