FOOTBALL
India U20 ladies to play 4 pleasant matches towards Swedish golf equipment
The Indian U20 ladies’s group will play 4 pleasant matches towards Swedish golf equipment throughout its ongoing preparatory camp in Sweden.
The Younger Tigresses will tackle the senior groups of Hammarby IF on February 19, Taby FK on February 22, Enskede IK Dam on February 25, and Karlbergs BK on February 28 as a part of their preparations for April’s AFC U20 Girls’s Asian Cup in Thailand.
India U20 ladies arrived in Sweden on February 5 and have been coaching on the Bosön Nationwide Sports activities Centre in Lidingo, close to Stockholm.
India will face Japan (April 2), Australia (April 5) and Chinese language Taipei (April 8) in Group C of the AFC U20 Girls’s Asian Cup Thailand 2026.
– Group Sportstar
TENNIS
Bhambri-Gorannson pair exits Qatar Open, Bhosale-Plipuech duo loses in Dubai
Yuki Bhambri and Rutuja Bhosale, India’s top-ranked female and male doubles gamers respectively, suffered defeats with their respective companions on the ATP and WTA occasions in Doha and Dubai on Wednesday.
Bhambri and his Swedish companion Andre Goransson misplaced 6-4, 6-4 to the top-seeded all-British pair of Julian Money and Lloyd Glasspool within the quarterfinals of the Qatar Open, an ATP 500 occasion.
Bhosale and Thailand’s Peangtarn Plipuech went down 6-3, 7-6(4) to the fourth-seeded Kazakh-Serbian pair of Anna Danilina and Aleksandra Krunic within the spherical of 16 of the Dubai Championships, a WTA 1000 occasion.
On the ITF ladies’s USD 1,00,000 occasion in Bengaluru, Shrivalli Bhamidipaty progressed to the second spherical because the native wildcard defeated Malta’s Francesca Curmi 7-6(4), 6-4. Nonetheless, teenager Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi misplaced 6-1, 1-6, 6-0 to Russia’s Polina Iatcenko whereas Vaidehee Chaudhari suffered a 6-4, 6-0 defeat towards top-seeded Australian Talia Gibson.
– Group Sportstar
GOLF
DP World Gamers Championship: Shaurya takes four-shot lead
In a single day chief Shaurya Bhattacharya fired an eight-under 62 within the second spherical to take a four-shot lead within the DP World Gamers Championship on the par-70 Tollygunge Membership course in Kolkata on Wednesday.
Shaurya (64, 62) produced a bogey-free spherical, together with an eagle and 6 birdies, to whole 14-under 126. Kshitij Naveed Kaul (67, 63) rose seven spots to take the second place with an combination of 130.
– Group Sportstar
Revealed on Feb 18, 2026