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Hockey. NHL. Regular season. "New Jersey" - "Dallas" - 5:0, "Ottawa" - "Florida" - 1:3, "Philadelphia" - "San Jose" - 6:7 B - Semenov " S" (0+1), "St. Louis" -- "Detroit" -- 3:4 -- Datsyuk "D" (0+2), "Chicago" -- "Edmonton" -- 3:0.
Chicago head coach Jule Quenneville said that he is completely satisfied with the team's goaltending line. “We are in no hurry. Both goalies deserve a chance to prove themselves. So both Yue and Khabibulin will get playing time,” AP quotes the coach as saying. Nikolai Khabibulin himself was pleased with his performance in the “dry” match with Edmonton. “They are a fast team, but we were better this evening. I would like to note our defense, which played just fine. They really helped me keep our goal intact,” Khabibulin complimented his teammates.
Davydenko left the tournament in St. Petersburg
Following the losing Russians Dmitry Tursunov, Igor Kunitsyn, Alexander Kudryavtsev and Teimuraz Gabashvili, one of the main favorites of the competition, the first racket of Russia Nikolai Davydenko, left the tennis tournament in St. Petersburg. The reason for this was an injury to his left hand, which he received in the opening match after an unsuccessful fall on the court. The next day, doctors put a splint on the tennis player’s left hand, and Davydenko held a special press conference, where he said that the hand injury would prevent him from fully preparing for the next tournament in Paris. At the moment, doctors have prescribed physiotherapeutic procedures for the player, and he must not remove the bandages from his arm for at least a week. Davydenko has already flown from St. Petersburg to Germany and on Wednesday, regardless of the progress of treatment, should appear in Paris. According to him, if the pain goes away and the inflammation goes away, he will be able to play in the French capital. Otherwise, he will have to return to Germany to begin preparations for the final tournament in Shanghai, which does not have much time left.
Due to Davydenko’s refusal to further participate in the St. Petersburg Open, his opponent, Russian Mikhail Elgin, advanced to the third round early.
Another of our compatriots, Marat Safin, had a successful start. In two sets with a score of 6:2, 6:4, he beat the talented Ukrainian Sergei Stakhovsky. After the match, Safin did not belittle the merits of his opponent and said that it was not very pleasant to play against young and promising tennis players. “These guys, as a rule, have a great desire to beat an opponent who is higher in the ranking, to show their best side, which allows them to rise higher in the ranking with minimal costs. Sergei is now approximately in his sixth or seventh decade. But he plays great, and I don’t consider his victory in Zagreb a sensation. I've been following Stakhovsky's career for a long time, he works great on the back line. What he lacks is experience. But it will come in time. I think that in a couple of years Stakhovsky will be a very dangerous tennis player, he can enter the top twenty. I wouldn’t engage in mischief when going on court against him,” Safin said.
Other results include the victory of Scotsman Andy Murray over Serbian Viktor Troitsky (6:3, 6:3) and the success of Andrey Golubev, representing Kazakhstan, in the game against Olivier Rochus from Belgium - 6:1, 6:4.
Brisbane tennis center to be named after Rafter
A tennis center planned for construction in Brisbane, Australia, will be named after legendary player Patrick Rafter. The new arena, designed for 5.5 thousand seats, will officially open in January. It is here that an international tournament will be held next year, which is preparatory to the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam tournament of the season.
Serbian players Novak Djokovic and Ana Ivanovic and Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis have already confirmed their participation in the competition in Brisbane. Russian Igor Kunitsyn and Latvian Ernests Gulbis also plan to take to the court of the new center.
ARAF tightens anti-doping measures
At the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF) coaching council held in Sochi, a decision was made aimed at strengthening the fight against doping. Its essence is that starting from 2009, athletes who have not passed six out-of-competition doping tests will not be allowed to participate in the summer championships of the country, where athletes will be selected - participants in the largest international competitions of the season. “We have decided to strengthen monitoring of 250-300 people who are on the national team roster and actually apply for participation in official international tournaments. The preventive measure, which was supported by all coaches - and they are now responsible for doping violations of students at the level of disqualification - will be implemented by our order by the recently created Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RusADA). And our order does not mean at all that RusADA cannot check someone more than the ordered quota. I would like to emphasize that these six checks of ours do not include the programs of the IAAF and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), as well as competitive tests,” RusAF President Valentin Balakhnichev told the All Sport agency.
FIFA President was involved in an accident
FIFA President Joseph Blatter was not injured in a car accident, the culprit of which, apparently, was himself, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Zurich newspaper Blick. The incident occurred on Saturday evening in the canton of Bern near the city of Spiez. According to the newspaper, Blatter, in his car, while trying to overtake, hit a car going in the same direction. As a result, Blatter's car was carried across the double center line into the oncoming lane, where another car crashed into it, the driver of which was slightly injured. Both cars were seriously damaged.
FIFA spokesman Hans Klaus declined to comment on the incident. A cantonal police spokesman said today that "the investigation into the cause of the accident has not yet been completed." At the same time, he made it clear that the culprit of the accident was most likely Blatter himself, who “carelessly performed an overtaking maneuver.”