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Football. Spanish Championship . 2nd round. “Barcelona” – “Racing” – 1:1, “Valladolid” – “Atlético” – 2:1, “Sevilla” – “Sporting” – 4:3, “Malaga” – “Atlético” -- 0:0, Recreativo -- Espanyol -- 0:1, Getafe -- Betis -- 0:0, Villarreal -- Deportivo -- 1:0, Mallorca - Osasuna - 1:1, Real Madrid - Numancia - 4:3, Almeria - Valencia - 2:2. Leading : Espanyol - 6 points, Valencia, Almeria, Sevilla, Getafe, Villarreal - 4 each.
Barcelona, with new head coach Josep Guardiola, has already lost five points in the first two rounds. Meanwhile, Real managed to recover from the opening defeat, while scoring the club's 5000th goal in the national championships. Its author was Jose Maria Gutierrez.
English Championship. 4th round. Liverpool - Manchester United - 2:1, Blackburn - Arsenal - 0:4, Fulham - Bolton - 2:1, Newcastle - Hull -- 1:2, "Portsmouth" -- "Middlesbrough" -- 2:1, "West Bromwich" -- "West Ham" -- 3:2, "Wigan" -- "Sunderland" -- 1:1, Manchester City - Chelsea - 1:3, Stoke City - Everton - 2:3. Leading: Chelsea, Liverpool - 10 points each, Arsenal - 9.
French Championship . 5th round. "Lyon" - "Nice" - 3:2, "Le Mann" - "Toulouse" - 1:2, "Valenciennes" - "Grenoble" - 1:1, "Auxerre" - "Nancy" " -- 1:1, "Rennes" -- "Le Havre" -- 1:1, "Monaco" -- "Lorien" -- 2:0, "Bordeaux" -- "Marseille" -- 1:1, " Caen - Saint-Etienne - 2:0, Sochaux - Lille - 1:1, PSG - Nantes - 1:0. Leading : Lyon - 13 points, Marseille - 11, PSG, Grenoble 10 each.
The permanent champion of the country in recent years, Lyon, having once again lost a number of its main players before the season, does not intend to relinquish its leadership even for a week. Having lost by two goals during the meeting with Nice, the Lyon team snatched victory thanks to a penalty in the 4th minute. added time.
German Championship. 4th round. Werder - Energie - 3:0, Hamburg - Bayer - 3:2, Hertha - Wolfsburg - 2:2, Borussia D - Schalke " -- 3:3, "Hoffenheim" -- "Stuttgart" -- 0:0, "Cologne" -- "Bayern" -- 0:3, "Hannover" -- "Borussia" M -- 5:1, "Bochum" - "Arminia" - 2:0. The leaders are: Hamburg - 10 points, Bayern, Schalke, Borussia D - 8 each.
Czech will save Rakhimov
FOOTBALL. Russian Championship. Matches of the 21st round. "Spartak-Nalchik" - "Lokomotiv" - 0:1 (Torbinsky 57) , CSKA - "Luch-Energia" - 4:1 (Dzagoev 38, Vagner Love 58, Krasic 78, 90 - Shevchenko 68) . The leaders are : Rubin - 45 points, Dynamo - 36, Amkar, CSKA - 35 each.
Last week Lokomotiv was tasked with winning all the remaining matches of the national championship. However, already in Nalchik the team almost failed the task. Remaining in the minority after Kambolov's removal already on the 16th minute, the guests constantly defended, and goalkeeper Cech, newly acquired by the railway workers, had to constantly enter the game. This time Lokomotiv managed without goalkeeper errors, and the victory for Rashid Rakhimov's team was brought by Torbinsky's stray shot from long range. Meanwhile, the Brazilian forward of CSKA Vagner Love, having scored the 9th goal, led the scorers' race.
Tennis players updated ratings
ATP and BTA published new ratings. In the top ten women everything remained unchanged. The American Serena Williams is in the lead (4091 points), followed by two Serbian athletes, Jelena Jankovic (3965) and Ana Ivanovic (3532). Next come four Russians: Elena Dementieva, Dinara Safina, Maria Sharapova and Svetlana Kuznetsova. Williams Jr. also holds the lead in the BTA championship race (3680). The best of the Russians, Safina, is third (3123).
The top three in the men's rankings are as follows: Spaniard Rafael Nadal (7000), Swiss Roger Federer (5930) and Serbian Novak Djokovic (4855). Russian Nikolay Davydenko is sixth (2400). In the ATP championship race, the trio of tennis players leading the list are similar: Nadal (1265), Federer (921) and Djokovic (875). Davydenko is fifth. Let us remind you that “tickets” to the final tournaments will be given to those athletes who take the first eight places in the championship races.
In other news from the tennis world, one can note the change in the status of the women's tournament in Bali (Indonesia), which this season had a modest prize fund of 225 thousand dollars. Starting next year, the competition will be called the Tournament of Champions (the total amount of bonuses is 600 thousand dollars) and will be held from November 4 to 8 in the indoor arena of the International Exhibition Center. The tournament format will also be changed. Now 12 tennis players will take part in it, divided into four triples. Only those athletes who win victories in the so-called International Series tournaments, which will include about thirty competitions, will be able to qualify for participation. In fact, the Tournament of Champions will become the second division of the final BTA championship. A tennis player who wins three International Series and Tournament of Champions tournaments will receive a bonus of $1 million.
Contador won two Vuelta stages in a row
Alberto Contador from Astana won his second victory in a row at the prestigious Vuelta cycling race. The Spaniard strengthened his lead in the general classification, ahead of teammate Levi Leipheimer (USA) by 1 minute 7 seconds.
The Spaniard covered Sunday's 158.4 km mountain stage from Oviedo to Fuentes de Inferno in 4:16.01. Second with a lag of 2 seconds. It was the same Leipheimer who finished in this segment. The best of the Russians, Alexander Kolobnev (CSC), finished the race in 57th place. He ranks 46th in the overall standings.
Euro 2009 basketball host cities confirmed
In Munich, at a meeting of the commission of the continental branch of the International Basketball Federation, the arenas where the 2009 European Championships will be held were approved. The women's tournament will take place June 7-20 in Latvia. The preliminary round matches will take place in Liepaja and Valmiera, and the final stage in Riga. The men's championship is hosted by Poland, inviting participants to Gdansk, Poznan, Warsaw and Wroclaw. The second round matches are scheduled in Bydgoszcz and Lodz, and the decisive matches in Katowice, at the Spodek Sports Palace. The 1999 European Women's Championship was already held here.