Young talent Padmini Rout caused a big upset in the World junior girls chess championship defeating top seed and hot favourite D Harika in the second round here on Friday.

It turned out to be a memorable day for the Orissa-based Padmini as she registered the biggest victory of her career in what was a brilliant finish after Harika missed her chance to get a draw.

Important results: (II round, Indians unless specified): Wang Hao (Chn, 2) bt Sanikidze Tornike (Geo, 1); Avetik Grigoryan (Arm, 1.5) drew with Daniel Stellwagen (Ned, 1.5); Maxim Rodshtein (Isr, 2) bt Hrant Melkumyan (Arm, 1); Abhijeet  Gupta (1) lt to Gawain Jones (Eng, 2); Sasha Kaplan (Isr, 2) bt Amin Bassem (Egy, 1); Amin Nasri (Iri, 1) lt to G N Gopal (2); Viacheslav Kulakov (Rus, 1) lt to Parimarjan Negi (2); Shamieh Mahmoud (Lib, 1) lt to G Rohit (2); Ashwin J (1.5) bt Ivan Galic (Cro, 0.5); D Arngrimsson (Isl, 0) lt to Deepan Chakkravarthy (1); Z Javakhadze (Geo, 0) lt to R Arun Karthik (1); Abhishek Das (1) bt Z Martin (Cze, 0).

Girls: Padmini Rout (2) bt D Harika (1); Elena Tairova (Rus, 1) lt to Sarah Hoolt (Ger, 2); Tatevik Airapetian (Arm, 1.5) drew with Mongontuul Bathuyag (Mgl, 1.5); Vera Nebolsina (Rus, 2) bt Anna Gasik (Pol, 1); Sona Pertlova (Cze, 1) lt to Eesha Karavade (2); Simona Limontaite (Ltu, 1) lt to Bela Khotenashvili (Geo, 2); Sopiko Guramishvili (Geo, 2) bt Haritomeni Markantonaki (Gre, 1); Mary Ann Gomes (2) bt P Priya (1); Madona Bokuchava (Geo, 1) lt to Soumya Swaminathan (2).