SQUASH
China Open: Anahat makes successful begin; Abhay, Senthilkumar bow out
Reigning girls’s Nationwide champion Anahat Singh made a successful begin on the China Open in Shanghai on Tuesday, whereas compatriots Velavan Senthilkumar and Abhay Singh misplaced within the males’s opening spherical.
The 17-year-old Anahat, ranked 38 on the planet, beat Egypt’s Menna Hamed 11-6, 11-8, 11-3 within the Spherical of 32 of the PSA Gold occasion, and can subsequent meet Egyptian eighth seed and world No. 15 Sana Ibrahim.
Abhay misplaced to Baptiste Masotti, the French world No. 17, successful 11-8, 11-7, 11-4, whereas Senthilkumar went all the way down to higher-ranked Egyptian Mohamed Abouelghar 8-11, 12-14, 6-11.
-Staff Sportstar
MOTORSPORT
Indian racing prodigy Atiqa Mir stormed to a historic pole place earlier than ending third on the rostrum within the opening spherical of the System 1 Academy-backed COTFA UAE karting collection in Abu Dhabi.
The ten-year-old is the primary Indian to be supported by System 1. Already a part of the Champions of the Future Academy (COTFA) worldwide collection, Atiqa, final month, was picked by System 1 Academy for the two-round COTFA UAE championship.
With extra eyeballs on this championship, there was extra stress to ship and Atiqa didn’t disappoint.
She clinched the pole place, changing into the first-ever feminine on the planet to realize this feat within the COTFA mini class earlier than including a warmth win to a profitable weekend.
She capped off a memorable week by ending third within the remaining.
Atiqa was coming into the weekend after a stellar October when she secured a number of podiums throughout championships together with a race win on the RMC Championship.
“It was an excellent weekend for me speed-wise, I bought pole in qualifying. I needed the win within the remaining however got here away with third, I’ll be taught from this weekend and try to enhance,” stated the quick studying racer from Jammu and Kashmir.
The COTFA collection is run on equal gear and engines to make sure a stage taking part in discipline for all drivers, empowering the actual expertise to shine by.
-PTI
BADMINTON
Teen shuttler Naishaa loses in Kumamoto Masters Japan qualifiers
Teenage Indian shuttler Naishaa Kaur Bhatoye did not qualify for the principle draw of the Kumamoto Masters Japan after struggling a straight-game loss to New Zealand’s Shaunna LI within the qualifiers on Tuesday.
The 17-year-old Indian went down 17-21, 18-21 to her higher-ranked opponent in 32 minutes within the girls’s singles qualification spherical of the Tremendous 500 event.
India will thus haven’t any illustration within the girls’s singles occasion, whereas Lakshya Sen and HS Prannoy will start their males’s singles marketing campaign within the USD 475,000 occasion on Wednesday.
-PTI
FOOTBALL
Indian midfielder Rivka Ramji joins Singapore’s Lion Metropolis Sailors
Indian midfielder Rivka Ramji has signed with Singapore top-tier facet Lion Metropolis Sailors, the membership introduced on Tuesday.
{The teenager} was a part of the India Beneath-19 crew that gained the South Asian Soccer Federation (SAFF) U-19 Girls’s Championship final February, and featured within the Indian Girls’s League with Sethu FC within the 2024-25 season.
Rivka is considered one of 4 international signings made by the Sailors, as they put together for his or her maiden AFC Girls’s Champions League (AWCL) group stage marketing campaign in Vietnam.
The three-time Girls’s Premier League champion (Singapore) will face Australia’s Melbourne Metropolis on November 13, earlier than taking over host Ho Chi Minh Metropolis Girls’s FC on November 16 and Philippines’ Stallion Laguna on November 19.
-Staff Sportstar
GOLF
Vani Kapoor eyes sixth win of the season
Vani Kapoor will attempt to finish a six title haul when she tees up on the fifteenth Leg of the Girls’s Professional Golf Tour this week on the Jaypee Greens Wishtown Golf Course.
A five-time winner this season, Vani is effectively forward of the sphere within the Order of Advantage, and he or she can also be in search of back-to-back wins on the Rs. 17 lakh occasion.
Vani, with earnings of Rs. 18,86,167, has an enormous lead over her buddy and closest rival, Amandeep Drall (Rs. 15,08,467). Whereas Vani has 5 wins in 11 begins this season, Amandeep has two wins in 13 begins.
Vani has divided her time between the Women European Tour and the Girls’s Professional Golf Tour this season as she has been looking for her kind on the worldwide scene this 12 months.
She did have a top-10 on the Girls’s Indian Open in October, however is now wanting on the 2026 season.
Jasmine Shekar, who has performed all 14 occasions on the schedule thus far this season, has earnings of Rs. 13,43,000 and has gained as soon as this 12 months. She is mendacity third on the Order of Advantage, whereas Sneha, one of many three a number of winners in 2025, is fourth with Rs. 12,81,900.
Other than Vani, Amandeep and Sneha, the opposite main contenders will embody Ridhima Dilawari, Heena Kang, Khushi Khanijau, Neha Tripathi, Vidhatri Urs and Lavanya Jadon.
The occasion has 36 gamers together with three amateurs, Saanvi Somu, Mahreen Bhatia and Shambhavi Chaturvedi.
-PTI
Shubhankar lies tied sixth in DP World Tour Qualifying Faculty
Indian golfer Shubhankar Sharma was positioned tied sixth after the fourth spherical of the DP World Tour Last Stage Qualifying Faculty at Infinitum’s Lakes and Hills programs.
With rounds of 70-69-66-67, he was 14-under however eight photographs behind the chief, Zander Lombard. There are two extra rounds left within the six-round remaining stage of the Q-Faculty.
Sharma, who has had a tough 2025 season on the DP World Tour this 12 months, has beforehand been ranked as excessive as sixty fourth on OWGR. This 12 months he missed 17 consecutive cuts after the Hero Indian Open held in March.
The season noticed him lose his tour card and return to the Q Faculty in a bid to retain taking part in privileges.
The 29-year-old, who has beforehand gained two titles on the DP World Tour, said throughout the DP World India Championships that he has struggled with gear modifications all year long and was but to discover a mixture that labored for him.
Issues have seemed higher this week, although 36 holes stay to be performed.
-PTI
Manu posts 66 for clubhouse lead on day considered one of Trident Open
Manu Gandas produced a six-under 66 to take the lead on the opening day of the inaugural Rs. 1 crore Trident Open on the Chandigarh Golf Membership.
The seasoned Shamim Khan, the winner of PGTI’s final occasion Shaurya Bhattacharya, and Bangladesh’s Md. Somrat Sikdar had been all tied for second place at four-under 68.
The primary spherical couldn’t be accomplished on Tuesday as play was suspended as a consequence of fading gentle at 5:30 p.m. native time. Twelve gamers out of a complete of 126 weren’t capable of end their first spherical.
Akshay Sharma was the highest-placed among the many Chandigarh-based gamers as he returned a 69 to be tied fifth within the clubhouse.
PGTI Rating chief Yuvraj Sandhu and Angad Cheema, two of the highest names within the discipline who’re additionally taking part in at their dwelling course, carded scores of 72.
Gandas, the 2022 PGTI Order of Advantage champion, gained his final title in early 2024. Nevertheless, he has proven indicators of getting again to successful methods with numerous good leads to latest occasions.
The Gurugram-based golfer, at present 14th within the PGTI’s benefit listing, has posted six top-10s, together with two runner-up finishes in his final seven begins on the PGTI.
-PTI
ATHLETICS
Inaugural version of Nationwide Indoor Athletics Championships to be held in Bhubaneswar in January
The inaugural version of the Nationwide Indoor Athletics Championships will probably be held in Bhubaneswar in January.
The state-of-the-art facility at Kalinga Stadium Advanced within the Odisha capital will host the occasion, although the precise date is but to be determined.
“The Nationwide Indoor Championships was on playing cards and we’ve included it within the 2026 home calendar,” Athletics Federation of India (AFI) President Bahadur Singh Sagoo stated.
The addition of the Nationwide Indoor Championships, for the primary time within the athletics calendar, is consistent with the AFI bidding for the 2028 Asian Indoor Championships.
In keeping with Sagoo, aside from the Nationwide Indoor Championships, the AFI additionally plans to conduct separate indoor competitors in pole vault (women and men) and heptathlon.
Occasions for the indoor heptathlon for males, to be held over two days, will probably be 60m, lengthy leap, shot put, excessive leap, 60m hurdles, pole vault and 1,000m.
The primary 4 occasions will probably be held on the primary day, whereas the remaining three occasions will probably be held on day two of the competitors.
-PTI
HOCKEY
Beighton Cup 2025: Indian Navy beats Uttar Pradesh; PNB wins in opposition to Indian Oil
Indian Navy rode on Mohit’s brace to beat Uttar Pradesh XI 4-1 within the Beighton Cup on the Vivekananda Hockey Stadium right here on Tuesday.
The outcomes:
Punjab Nationwide Financial institution 2 (Ningombam 17, Naveen 22) bt Indian Oil 0
Indian Navy 4 (Sundra 13, Mohit 17, 45, Sanjit 54) bt Uttar Pradesh XI 1 (Kaif 50).
– Staff Sportstar
Revealed on Nov 11, 2025