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Hockey. NHL. Regular season . “Chicago” – “Vancouver” – 4:2, “Anaheim” – “Carolina” – 1:2.
After two game weeks of the regular season, the list of the league’s top scorers according to the “goal plus pass” system is headed by two Russians, who scored ten points each. Washington forward Alexander Semin scored six goals and made four assists; Pittsburgh's Evgeni Malkin had two and eight assists respectively. Among the snipers, the first place is taken by the Austrian Tomas Vanek (Buffalo), who turned on the red light seven times behind the opponent's goal. The best “plus-minus” for Russian defender Andrei Markov and his Montreal teammate Finn Saku Koivu is “plus-seven” each.
Minnesota and Edmonton, who played four matches each, did not suffer a single defeat. At the other pole of the standings are Philadelphia and Tampa Bay, who in five meetings have never experienced the joy of victory.
Murray wins the Masters in Madrid
British tennis player Andy Murray defeated Frenchman Gilles Simon in the final of the Masters tournament with a prize fund of 2.27 million euros in Madrid - 6:4, 7:6 (8:6). This is the second victory of the 21-year-old native of Scotland at competitions of this level. Andy won his previous title at the Masters even before the Olympics on the courts of Cincinnati (USA). Now he has seven tournaments won on his record, four of them this season. Madrid finalist Simon immediately rose six steps in the world rankings and entered the top 10 of the ATP individual classification for the first time. In the championship race, he takes ninth place (331 points) and really claims to be included in the Shanghai Masters Cup. The Frenchman is separated by only six points from the coveted eighth position, which now belongs to the Argentinean Juan Martin Del Potro.
Among women, Venus Williams won the second category BTA competition with a total bonus of 600 thousand dollars in Zurich (Switzerland). The American turned out to be stronger than the Italian Flavia Pennetta in the final - 7:6 (7:1), 6:2. The list of tennis players who have already qualified for the final WTA Championship was expanded last week by Svetlana Kuznetsova.
CSKA took the start in the Russian Championship
Basketball. Super League. Men. CSKA - "Ural Great" - 100:72, "Lokomotiv-Rostov" - "University-Ugra" - 78:77, "Yenisey" - "Khimki" - 70:95.
The last of the 12 participants in the championship to start was CSKA, which had previously visited North America, where it lost two friendly matches to NBA clubs Orlando and Toronto. In the meeting with the Perm team, the army team made more than half of the three-point shots made (7/13). Trajan Langdon hit the target three times from inside the six-yard line. The top scorers for the winners were Slovenian Erazim Lorbek (19 points) and Lithuanian Ramunas Siskauskas (15), while Vanya Plisnic scored for the guests. The Serb brought his team 27 points, with all five of his long-range shots reaching the target.
Nothing interesting happened in the Women's Super League last weekend, as teams of completely different classes met. Even after the reduction of the “A” division from 12 to ten teams, there are many matches where the advantage of one of the opponents reaches 30 points or more. So, for example, “Spartak” (Vidnoe) defeated Chelyabinsk “Slavyanka” - 115:43, and the capital’s “Dynamo” left no chance to its teammates from Novosibirsk - 102:57.
Tottenham can't get out of the bottom
Football. English Championship. 8th round. Middlesbrough - Chelsea - 0:5, Arsenal - Everton - 3:1, Liverpool - Wigan - 3:2, Aston Villa - Portsmouth " -- 0:0, "Bolton" -- "Blackburn" -- 0:0, "Fulham" -- "Sunderland" -- 0:0, "Manchester United" -- "West Bromwich" -- 4:0 , Hull - West Ham - 1:0, Stoke City - Tottenham - 2:1. The match between Newcastle and Manchester City ended late yesterday evening. Leading: Chelsea, Liverpool - 20 points, Hull - 17, Arsenal - 16.
Premier League debutants Hull secured a third win in a row, again by the narrowest of margins, and remain sensationally in the top group. Amri Zaki's double did not help Wigan escape defeat, but the Egyptian himself topped the list of scorers with seven goals. In the 2006 season, this player was under contract with the capital's Lokomotiv, but did not play a single match for the railway workers, after which he went home. Outsider Tottenham, for which Russian national team forward Roman Pavlyuchenko plays, scored two points in eight matches and set a club anti-record. There has never been a worse start to the English Championship in Spurs' 126-year history. Pavlyuchenko came on as a substitute in the match against Stoke City half an hour before the final whistle, but was not remembered for anything special.
Spanish Championship. 7th round. Atlético - Real Madrid - 1:2, Espanyol - Villarreal - 0:0, Valencia - Numancia - 4:0, Racing - Deportivo -- 0:0, Sporting -- Osasuna -- 2:1, Betis -- Mallorca -- 3:0, Malaga -- Getafe -- 2:1, Valladolid "- "Recreativo" - 1:1, "Athletic" - "Barcelona" - 0:1, "Almeria" - "Sevilla" - 0:1. Leading: Valencia - 19, Sevilla, Villarreal - 17, Barcelona, Real Madrid - 16.
German Championship. 8th round. Bochum - Borussia M - 2:2, Cologne - Energie - 1:0, Karlsruhe - Bayern - 0:1, Hertha - Stuttgart " -- 2:1, "Eintracht" -- "Bayer" -- 0:2, "Hannover" -- "Hoffenheim" -- 2:5, "Wolfsburg" -- "Arminia" -- 4:1, " Werder - Borussia D - 3:3, Hamburg - Schalke - 1:1. Leading: Hamburg - 17, Hoffenheim - 16, Bayer - 15, Hertha - 14.
Provincial Bundesliga debutant Hoffenheim continues to amaze fans and experts. This is the third victory with a big score, and in the last four meetings Hoffenheim scored a dozen goals. Bosnian Vedad Ibisevic scored a double and is the tournament's top scorer with nine goals.
French Championship. 9th round. "Monaco" - "Nice" - 1:2, "Paris Saint-Germain" - "Lorient" - 3:2, "Caen" - "Grenoble" - 2:2, "Bordeaux" - “Toulouse” – 2:1, “Sochaux” – “Le Havre” – 1:1, “Nantes” – “Saint-Etienne” – 1:0, “Lyon” – “Lille” – 2 :2, Le Mans - Nancy - 2:0, Auxerre - Rennes - 0:0, Valenciennes - Marseille - 1:3. Leading: Lyon - 20, Marseille - 19, Le Mans, Bordeaux, Toulouse - 17.