FOOTBALL
The Indian Beneath-20 girls’s soccer crew will play two pleasant matches towards Uzbekistan on November 29 and December 2, 2025, on the FC Madras Academy in Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu.
Each matches, being held throughout the FIFA Girls’s Worldwide Match Window, shall be performed behind closed doorways.
Head coach Joakim Alexandersson named a 24-member squad for these video games, which can kind a part of India’s preparations for the AFC U-20 Girls’s Asian Cup 2026.
The Younger Tigresses have been drawn with Japan, Australia and Chinese language Taipei in Group C of the Asian Cup. Uzbekistan has additionally certified for a similar and has been positioned in Group B with DPR Korea, Korea Republic and Jordan.
India has been tenting on the FC Madras Academy since November 11. Final month, the Younger Tigresses performed two pleasant matches towards Kazakhstan U-19 in Shymkent, profitable 3-2 and drawing 1-1.
FULL SQUAD
Goalkeepers: Melody Chanu Keisham, Monalisha Devi Moirangthem, Ribansi Jamu.
Defenders: Alina Chingakham, Cindy Remruatpuii Colney, Juhi Singh, Nishima Kumari, Remi Thokchom, Sahena TH, Shubhangi Singh, Thoibisana Chanu Toijam, Viksit Bara.
Midfielders: Anju Chanu Kayenpaibam, Arina Devi Nameirakpam, Bhumika Devi Khumukcham, Khushbu Saroj, Monisha Singha, Neha.
Forwards: Babita Kumari, Deepika Pal, Lhingdeikim, Shilji Shaji, Sibani Devi Nongmeikapam, Sulanjana Raul.
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GOLF
It was a blended opening day for India as Aditi Ashok, a a number of winner on the Women European Tour, shot 3-under 69 to be tied tenth after the primary day on the Andalucia Costa del Sol Open de Espana in Malaga.
She was three photographs behind Denmark’s Smilla Tarning Soenderby and Thailand’s Trichat Cheenglab who shared the lead at six-under-par.
Aditi started on the primary and bogeyed the third however made up on the fourth.
She turned in even par. She started the again 9 with an eagle on Par-5 tenth however gave away a shot on Par-5 twelfth. She landed two birdies on the sixteenth and the seventeenth for a 69.
Rookie Avani Prashanth (71) was the subsequent finest Indian at T-Twenty seventh, whereas Hitaashee Bakshi, who made the season-ending occasion on the power of her third place end at Hero Girls’s Indian Open final month, carded 73 and was T-45.
Pranavi Urs, who lately received a title taking part in in a subject that included males in a house occasion on the brand new IGPL Tour, shot 2-over 74, as did Diksha Dagar. Each had been T-49.
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CYCLING
The inaugural version of the Pune Grand Tour, the nation’s first-ever Union Cycliste Internationale 2.2 class Street Race, shall be held from January 19 to 23.
Hosts India will subject two groups for which the Biking Federation of India (CFI) will maintain the Nationwide Championship cum choice trials from December 2 to six at Sambalpur, Odisha. The shortlisted athletes will additional be evaluated by a Nationwide Street Race in Pune on December 28.
The presence of two Indian groups – ‘India A’ and ‘India B’- is ready to supply a broader platform for rising and seasoned cyclists alike to reveal their prowess on a nationwide and worldwide stage.
The Tour will characteristic four-stages 437-km difficult routes that may wind by the landscapes of Pune district
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MOTORSPORT
Indian racing sensation Atiqa Mir outpaced a battery of world-class male drivers to qualify fourth within the COTFA worldwide karting sequence, the best end for a feminine within the championship’s historical past.
With the sequence supported by Components 1 Academy, it was the proper stage for Atiqa to showcase her uncommon expertise, and the 11-year-old did that with an unprecedented fourth place in qualifying of the mini class earlier than ending in the identical place within the last on Day 1.
The Components 1 Academy and Akcel GP-backed driver missed the rostrum spot by simply 0.07 seconds, a testomony to the extremely aggressive nature of the grid.
Within the last on Day 2, Atiqa got here up with one other spectacular effort in qualifying, setting the fifth quickest time.
She was in podium competition for almost all of the race. A daring overtake on the final lap put her in fourth place, and with a podium at stake, Atiqa understandably pushed herself to the restrict, resulting in a lack of three locations. She nonetheless managed to complete a creditable seventh out of 28 drivers.
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Revealed on Nov 28, 2025