HOCKEY
Deepika’s area aim in opposition to Netherlands nominated for Poligras Magic Ability Award
Indian Girls’s Hockey Crew ahead Deepika has been nominated for the Poligras Magic Ability Award for her unimaginable solo area aim in opposition to World No.1, the Netherlands, in the course of the 2024-25 FIH Hockey Professional League season.
Deepika’s iconic second came about in February 2025 in the course of the Bhubaneswar leg of the FIH Hockey Professional League when the Indian Crew defeated the Netherlands in shootout after a 2-2 draw on the Kalinga Stadium.
Within the thirty fifth minute, Deepika dribbled down the left flank brilliantly as she went across the Netherlands’ backline, kissed the baseline, dinked the ball over a defender’s stick and completed the transfer with an exquisite strike previous the keeper and into the online.
“That aim in opposition to the Netherlands is among the most particular moments of my profession. All the pieces simply clicked and it helped us equalise and win the sport in shootout,” the 21-year-old attacker mentioned.
The winner of the Poligras Magic Ability Award is set by hockey followers the world over by means of a web based vote.
– Crew Sportstar
SQUASH
Rathika Seelan finishes runner-up at Girls’s Metropolis of Better Shepparton Worldwide 2025
Rathika Seelan, seeded eighth, achieved her finest end result on overseas soil by ending runner-up on the Girls’s Metropolis of Better Shepparton Worldwide 2025, held on the Goulburn Valley Squash Centre, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia.
Within the semi-final, Rathika battled previous her opponent in a five-game thriller to win 11–6, 7–11, 4–11, 11–9, 11–9 in 47 minutes.
She went down within the last to the defending champion Gigi Yeung, shedding 5–11, 2–11, 5–11.
This efficiency follows her title win on the HCL Indian Tour in Could final 12 months.
– Crew Sportstar
GOLF
Diksha strikes up three spots in Irish Open
Diksha Dagar closed her third spherical with a birdie to realize three locations to maneuver to Tied 53rd on the 2025 KPMG Girls’s Irish Open on the Women European Tour.
Diksha with playing cards of 75-73-73 is 2-over. She moved three locations up from her earlier T-56th when she made the lower on the road.
English newbie Lottie Woad continued her wonderful kind, firing a bogey-free 67 (-6) to carry a seven-shot lead heading into the ultimate day.
– PTI
Bhullar strikes as much as Tied-Twenty fourth in Morocco
Gaganjeet Bhullar leapt a dozen locations upwards within the third spherical as he added a spherical of 2-under 71 to maneuver to T-Twenty fourth place within the Worldwide Sequence Morocco.
Bhullar, a 11-time winner on the Asian Tour, had 4 birdies in opposition to two bogeys to maneuver from T36. His finest end this season in an Worldwide Sequence occasion has been T-24.
The opposite Indian within the area to make the lower, Ajeetesh Sandhu (75) was T-65.
Scott Vincent was rewarded for a late birdie on the seventeenth gap that edged him forward by one shot on the finish of the third spherical within the USD 2 million Worldwide Sequence Morocco.
Vincent’s spherical was considered one of solely two bogey-free rounds of the day.
– PTI