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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