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Russian Championship. Premier League. 5th round. April 13. "Kuban" - "Saturn". April 14. "Zenit" - "Dynamo", "Luch-Energia" - "Amkar", "Wings of the Soviets" - "Rostov", "Rubin" - "Moscow", "Lokomotiv" - "Khimki". April 15. "Tom" - "Spartak" (M), CSKA - "Spartak" (Nch). First division. April 10. 4th round . On Tuesday, Manchester United (England) and Italian Roma (first game score 1:2), Valencia (Spain) and English Chelsea (1:1) meet in the Champions League. On Wednesday there will be matches between Bayern Munich and Italian Milan (2:2), English Liverpool and PSV Eindhoven from Holland (3:0). Perhaps, only in the last pair the outcome of the confrontation based on the sum of the two fights is not in doubt.
The Spanish Osasuna, competing in the UEFA Cup, provided themselves with the same margin of safety before the return home match, scoring three unanswered goals against Bayer Leverkusen on the road in Germany. The remaining pairs of the second most important continental club tournament are: Werder (Bremen, Germany) - AZ-67 from the Dutch city of Alkmaar (0:0), Benfica (Portugal) - Espanyol (2: 3), “Tottenham” (England) – “Seville” (1:2). Russian national team forward Alexander Kerzhakov, who plays for Sevilla, scored the winning goal in the first match, doing it in the 36th minute. This game started out worse than ever for the hosts - they conceded very quickly, when the stopwatch hand had not yet completed two full circles. The Spanish club equalized the score from the penalty spot - Frederic Kanoute scored.
PROFESSIONAL BOXING. April 14. Fight for the WBA world title Nikolay Valuev (Russia) - Ruslan Chagaev (Uzbekistan). Stuttgart (Germany).
Both rivals never left the professional ring defeated.
BASKETBALL. April 10. ULEB Cup. Final. Real (Madrid, Spain) - Lituvos Rytas (Vilnius, Lithuania). Charleroi (Belgium). April 11. FIBA European Cup. Women. Final. Dynamo (Moscow) - Faenza (Italy). Return match (first game - 74:61). April 12. Euroleague ULEB . Quarterfinals. The third matches of the series up to two victories .
Two participants in the “Final Four” of the ULEB Euroleague, which will take place on May 4-6 in Athens, are already known. This is the Spanish club Tau from Vitoria, which defeated the Greek Olympiacos last week (84:59 at home, 95:89 two days later away), and the host of the decisive matches of the tournament, Panathinaikos, which eliminated the capital's Dynamo from the draw ( 80:58, 73:65).
Third matches will be needed in the series between the current champion CSKA and last year's finalist Israeli Maccabi (Tel Aviv), two Spanish teams - Unicaja and Barcelona. The army team, having confidently dealt with the opponent on their court 80:58, broke their record streak of 18 consecutive victories in one tournament in the Promised Land - 56:68. In Tel Aviv, five minutes after the long break, the “red-blues” were close to a crushing defeat, losing in the presence of 10,500 spectators by a gigantic difference - 27:49. Slovenian CSKA forward Matjaz Smodis had an unusually weak match, missing all nine field goals. Center David Andersen brought only three points to the guests. The most productive player for the losers was Venezuelan Oscar Torres, who transferred from Khimki during the season - 12 points.
Barcelona took revenge late on Thursday for their defeat in Malaga (75:91) with the most popular score in the Euroleague quarterfinals - 80:58. Real mysticism - this result was recorded three times in two days.
HOCKEY. April 10--11, 13. Russian Championship. Super League. Final. "Ak Bars" - "Metallurg" (MG). The third, fourth and fifth matches of the best-of-three series . April 13-14. Test matches. Switzerland - Russia. Chaux-de-Fonds, Langenthal.
It’s a more than strange situation: the Russian national team is playing on the same day when the decisive meeting of the Super League final could take place. Last week, the national team began preparations for the 2007 World Cup without players from the four strongest teams in the country (Avangard, Magnitogorsk, CSKA and Ak Bars) and, of course, NHL players, still in an experimental squad. Goalkeepers: Koshechkin (Lada), Varlamov (Loko), Barulin (Khimik). Defenders: Bykov “Khimik”, Kulyash, Misharin (both “Dynamo”), Emelin, Kondratyev (both “Lada”), Valentenko (“Neftekhimik”), Grebeshkov. Forwards: Nepryaev, Shafigullin, Artyukhin, Mikhnov (all Loko), Kharitonov (Dynamo), But (SKA), Schastlivy, Mozyakin, Vorobiev, Leshchev (all Khimik), Zhmakin (Lada "), Antipov ("Salavat Yulaev").
Test matches ahead of the Moscow World Championship starting on April 27 began on March 29 with a super sensation. Hungary defeated the Turin Olympic winners Swedes - 2:1 in overtime. There are 13 more friendly matches taking place this week. Our group rival Denmark will play twice in Germany (April 12 and 14), another neighbor of the Russians in Quartet “D” Finland will host Latvia on Friday.
VOLLEYBALL. April 10--15. European Junior Championships. Brno (Czech Republic). April 11--16. European Junior Championships. Vienna, Krems (Austria). April 13--15. Super League. Men. Tournament for 9th-12th places. 2nd round. Permian. April 14. Super League. Women . 20th round .
In the men's tournament for the right to retain registration in the super league for the next season (the two worst teams are relegated to the major league “A”), after the first round played in Novokuybyshevsk, an extremely tense situation developed. Local NOVA, which was three points away from the saving zone, won all its matches at home and pulled itself two steps closer due to the failures of Novosibirsk Lokomotiv. The current position of the teams: Neftyanik Bashkortostan - 20 points, Lokomotiv (NS) - 19, NOVA and Prikamye - 18 each. The clubs participating in the playoffs are resting this week. Semi-finals and series for 5th-8th places will start only on April 16th.
At the European Junior Championships, tickets to the World Championships in this age category, which will take place in August, will be competed for. Tickets to Mexico will be given to the top six girls' teams and five boys' teams.
TENNIS. April 9--15. ATP tournaments. Valencia (Spain). Priming. Prize fund 353,450 euros. Houston (USA). Priming. 416 thousand dollars WTA tournament (1st category). Charleston (USA). Green clay. $1.34 million .
TABLE TENNIS. Stage of the “Pro Tour” series. Brazilian Open. Belo Horizonte.
According to the preliminary application, the Russian national team will be represented at this stage by the newly crowned champion of the continent Svetlana Ganina, silver medalists of Euro 2007 Oksana Fadeeva, Irina Kotikhina, Yulia Prokhorova, Fedor Kuzmin, bronze winner Alexey Smirnov and others.
CYCLE HIGHWAY. April 9--14. "Vuelta of the Basque Country" (Spain). April 11. Ghent - Wevelgem (Belgium). April 15. Paris - Roubaix (France).
Of the three Pro Tour events this week, the most significant is the 105th Paris-Roubaix race, which dates back to 1896.
"FORMULA-1". April 15. "Bahrain Grand Prix".