| In the first match of the quarterfinals of the Russian Cup, CSKA basketball players in Moscow beat Novosibirsk Lokomotiv - 123:78. This victory was the 43rd consecutive victory for the capital's army team, won in official meetings. CSKA's unique series began on May 28 last year with the last game of the super final against UNICS Kazan. This season, head coach Dusan Ivkovic's team won 22 matches in the national championship, 3 in the Russian Cup and another 17 in the ULEB Euroleague. The last victory in the tournament of the strongest teams on the continent was given to the “red-blues” with great difficulty. On the road, they overcame the resistance of Real Madrid only in overtime - 95:94. Ilya TRISVIATSKY
Our girls are successfully playing in Indian Wells
Russians Mikhail Youzhny, Igor Andreev, Nikolay Davydenko and Dmitry Tursunov, who permanently reside in the United States, dropped out of the fight at the first men's tennis tournament of the Masters series this season with a prize fund of $2,724,600 in Indian Wells.
There are 96 participants in the main draw of these competitions, so 32 players were bypassed in the first round. In the starting circle, Tursunov lost to the Argentine Agustin Calleri - 2:6, 6:3, 3:6, Andreev capitulated to the Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero - 3:6, 3:6. Yuzhny and Davydenko, who started the tournament from the second round, also suffered defeats. Mikhail lost to the Swede Thomas Enquist - 4:6, 1:6, Nikolai failed to cope with the wild card holder, American tennis player James Blake - 3:6, 6:7 (6:8). Late yesterday evening Moscow time, Marat Safin met with Finn Jarkko Nieminen in the 1/32 finals.
Here, in Indian Wells, a women's tournament of the first category of the BTA is being held in parallel with a total bonus amount of $2.1 million. Of the 13 Russian women who made it into the main draw, eight of our compatriots reached the third round. Elena Likhovtseva, Galina Voskoboeva, Alisa Kleybanova, Alina Zhidkova and Elena Bovina dropped out of the competition at an early stage, and the latter lost to Maria Kirilenko in the Russian derby - 3:6, 1:6. Maria Sharapova, seeded third, defeated American Angela Haynes in the second round - 6:1, 6:2. Two-time Grand Slam finalist Elena Dementieva also defeated US representative Abigail Spears - 6:2, 7:6 (7:5), 2004 US Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova defeated Eva Birnerova (Czech Republic) - 6:3, 6:2. Anna Chakvetadze, Evgenia Linetskaya, Nadezhda Petrova, Dinara Safina also made it to the 1/16 finals. Of the leading Russian players, only Anastasia Myskina misses the competition in Indian Wells. Ilya TRISVIATSKY
“San Antonio” was left without leaders
Basketball. NBA. Regular season . "Miami" - "New Jersey" - 90:65, "Charlotte" - "Lakers" - 116:117, "Atlanta" - "Golden State" - 92:105, "New Orleans" -- "Milwaukee" -- 111:107, "San Antonio" -- "Denver" -- 87:90, "Portland" -- "Memphis" -- 80:66.
San Antonio lost its second match in a row after being left without its leaders Tim Duncan and Argentine Manu Ginobili, the 2004 Athens Olympic champion. Duncan has an injury to his right ankle, Zhinobili pulled his groin. Russian national team forward Nikolai Khryapa played for Portland for 13 minutes and during that time managed to make seven rebounds without scoring a single point. The day before, in a lost match with Memphis (82:94), our Andrei Kirilenko from Utah scored 25 points and made 13 rebounds. Vladimir ILYIN
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