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Russian Championship. Premier League. 26th round. October 25. "Khimki" - "Luch-Energia", "Spartak" M - "Terek", "Rubin" - "Wings of the Soviets", "Shinnik" - "Spartak-Nalchik". October 26. "Tom" - "Zenit", "Amkar" - "Lokomotiv", "Moscow" - "Saturn".
St. Petersburg Zenit has an excellent opportunity to win its first victory in the Champions League. The wards of the Dutch specialist Dick Advocaat on Tuesday host the Belarusian BATE from the city of Borisov, which sensationally made it to the group stage. True, the modest club started the tournament very well, adequately resisting the Spanish Real in Madrid (0:2) and taking points from the famous Italian Juventus (2:2) at home in Minsk. The team from the Apennine Peninsula will play in Turin with Real Madrid on the same day. Position in Group H: Real Madrid - 6 points, Juventus - 4, BATE - 1, Zenit - 0.
Schedule of matches of the 3rd round in other quartets. October 21. Group "E". Villarreal (Spain) - Aalborg (Denmark), Manchester United (England) - Celtic (Scotland). Group "F". “Bayern” (Germany) - “Fiorentina” (Italy), “Steaua” (Romania) - “Lyon” (France). Group "G". Fenerbahce (Turkey) - Arsenal (England), Porto (Portugal) - Dynamo K (Ukraine). October 22. Group "A". Bordeaux (France) - CFR (Romania), Chelsea (England) - Roma (Italy). Group "B". Inter (Italy) - Anorthosis (Cyprus), Panathinaikos (Greece) - Werder Bremen (Germany). Group "C". Shakhtar (Ukraine) - Sporting (Portugal), Basel (Switzerland) - Barcelona (Spain). Group "D". Atlético (Spain) - Liverpool (England), PSV Eindhoven (Holland) - Marseille (France).
There are eight octets formed in the group stage of the UEFA Cup. The opponents play in one round, that is, each team will play two matches at home and away. On Thursday, CSKA hosts the Spanish “Deportivo”, but the capital’s “Spartak”, which is in group “D”, is not participating in this round, and fans of the “red-whites” will follow the results of the meetings “Udinese” (Italy) -- Tottenham (England), Dinamo (Zagreb, Croatia) -- NEK (Holland).
TENNIS. ATP tournaments. Basel (Switzerland), Lyon (France), St. Petersburg. WTA tournaments. Linz (Austria), Luxembourg.
Results of the draw for the St. Petersburg Open Championship with a prize fund of 1.049 million euros for Russian tennis players. 1/16 finals. Alexander Kudryavtsev (wc) -- Karlis Leinieks (Latvia, wc), Igor Kunitsyn -- Rainer Schuttler (Germany), Dmitry Tursunov -- Dominik Hrbaty (Slovakia), Marat Safin -- Sergey Stakhovsky (Ukraine), Mikhail Youzhny -- Ivar Navarro (Spain), Evgeny Korolev - Victor Ganescu (Romania), Mikhail Elgin (wc) - Filippo Volandri (Italy), Nikolay Davydenko - Chris Guccione (Australia). Davydenko is “seeded” number two, and the first racket of the competition, last year’s winner, Briton Andy Murray, will meet Serbian Viktor Troicki in the opening round.
For women, a BTA second category tournament is being held in Linz with a total bonus amount of $600 thousand. Ana Ivanovic (Serbia), Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland), Patty Schneider from Switzerland and our Vera Zvonareva are exempt from participation in the first round fights. In the 1/16 finals, Maria Kirilenko will play with one of the qualifiers; Nadezhda Petrova’s opponent will be Katerina Bondarenko (Ukraine).
HOCKEY. October 20--26. Continental Hockey League. Regular season. October 22. Champions League . 2nd round .
KHL match calendar this week. October 20. "Amur" - "Metallurg" Nk, "Lada" - "Spartak", "Avangard" - "Dynamo" Mn, "Barys" - "Dynamo" R, "Khimik" - "Dynamo" M, SKA - "Lokomotiv". October 21 . "Traktor" - "Torpedo", "Salavat Yulaev" - "Atlant", "Ak Bars" - "Vityaz", "Neftekhimik" - CSKA. October 22 . "Siberia" - "Metallurg" Nk, "Lada" - "Lokomotiv", "Avangard" - "Dynamo" R, "Barys" - "Dynamo" M, "Khimik" - "Dynamo" Mn, " Severstal - Spartak. October 23 . "Traktor" - "Atlant", "Avangard" - "Dynamo" R, CSKA - "Vityaz". October 24 . HC MVD - "Metallurg" MG, "Traktor" - "Amur", "Neftekhimik" - "Ak Bars". October 25. Avangard - Dynamo M, SKA - CSKA, Severstal - Salavat Yulaev. October 26. “Torpedo” - “Barys”, “Lokomotiv” - “Amur”, “Dynamo” R - “Ak Bars”.
The match between Avangard and Dynamo was supposed to take place on October 18, but was postponed for a week due to the tragic death of Omsk forward Alexei Cherepanov.
In the second round of the Champions League, Magnitogorsk will play away - Metallurg will have to play with the Finnish club Kärpät (Oulu). This will be the first match in the tournament for our team. “Salavat Yulaev”, which began the competition with a home defeat of “Ceske Budejovice” (7:1), is missing this game week.
VOLLEYBALL. October 21-22. Super League. Men. 4th round . October 25. Super League. Women. 1st round . October 26. Super League . Men. 5th round .
The central match of the fourth round is the game scheduled for Tuesday between the silver medalist of the previous championship, Odintsovo Iskra, and the winner of the 2008 Champions League, Zenit Kazan. The mentors who have recently led the Russian national team - Serbian Zoran Gajić (Iskra) and Vladimir Alekno, who worked with the national team in 2007-2008, will oppose each other. The highlight of the fifth round is the match between Lokomotiv-Belogorye and the capital's Dynamo. There is no doubt that the stands of the Belgorod Sports Palace "Cosmos" will be sold out (5,000 spectators).
12 clubs are taking part in the starting Super League championship among women's teams. CSKA ceased to exist, so Chelyabinsk Avtodor-Metar retained its place in the elite.
BASKETBALL. October 20, 22--23. Euroleague ULEB. 1st round . October 21. "Eurochallenge". First qualifying round. Return matches .
The right to open the next club championship of the Old World fell to the Spanish “Tau” and the Turkish “Fenerbahce” playing on Monday. CSKA will host the Italian Armani Jeans (Milan) on Wednesday. In the second most important continental tournament, which is jointly held by ULEB and FIBA-Europe, UNICS and Triumph will have to solve the difficult task of reaching the next round. After all, in the first match, the Kazan team lost to the Polish “Energia” (Charni) on the road – 62:76, and the Moscow Region club played a draw at home with the Belgian “Oostende” – 78:78 (draws are allowed in two-game matches).
MOUNTAIN SKIING. October 25-26. First stage of the World Cup. Solden (Austria ). Giant slalom (men, women).
SNOWBOARD. October 25. World Cup stage. London (UK). Acrobatics (men) .