Federer won his seventh tournament in a row

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The first racket of the world, Swiss tennis player Roger Federer, defeated our Mikhail Youzhny in the final of the ATP competition in the largest city of the United Arab Emirates, Dubai - 6:4, 6:3. This is Federer's seventh tournament in a row that the Basel native has won. In total, taking into account two matches in the Davis Cup, Roger achieved victory in 41 matches in a row. The Swiss has already won his 47th title in Dubai. According to this indicator, he has no equal among current players.

At the tournament in Las Vegas (USA), part of which was held in a round-robin format, two Russians reached the semifinals. Marat Safin lost to the Australian Lleyton Hewitt - 5:7, 1:6, Evgeniy Korolev only lost to the Austrian Jurgen Melzer in the tiebreaker of the third game - 7:6 (7:4), 2:6, 6:7 (4: 7).

For the second week in a row, Justine Henin-Hardenne became the champion of the tournament in an Arab country. After success in Dubai, she also distinguished herself in the capital of Qatar, Doha. In the decisive match, the Belgian prevailed over St. Petersburg's Svetlana Kuznetsova - 6:4, 6:2. In the first set, the Russian was in the lead 4:2, but then lost six games in a row. The score of personal matches between our tennis player and the champion of the tournament in Doha became 1:14, with Svetlana losing her last ten matches.

Avangard won with a record score

Hockey. Super League. 57th round. Lokomotiv - Severstal - 6:2, Lada - HC MVD - 1:2, SKA - Neftekhimik - 1:6, Dynamo - CSKA - 2:4 , "Vityaz" - "Salavat Yulaev" - 3:1, "Traktor" - "Sibir" - 2:3 (OT), "Metallurg" (NK) - "Khimik" - 4:3, "Amur" - "Metallurg" (MG) - 1:1, "Wings of the Soviets" - "Avangard" - 1:17. They are in the lead (52 matches played): Ak Bars - 116 points, Avangard - 106, Salavat Yulaev - 99.

The Omsk “hawks” defeated the Krylya Sovetov youth team, which was finishing the tournament, and set a new record for the Russian championships, achieving a difference of 16 goals. The previous achievement belonged to Novokuznetsk Metallurg, which in the 2000/01 season defeated SKA St. Petersburg with a score of 13:0. The army team also played as reservists in that meeting, since the main team was involved in a foreign commercial tournament. As for all the championships in our country, here the record set back in Soviet times has stood. In the debut USSR championship 1946/47, the capital's Dynamo team defeated Spartak Uzhgorod - 23:0, and six years later the Moscow army team defeated the "red and white" from Kaunas with exactly the same score. If we talk about all national championships, the absolute record belongs to Turkey. On October 21, 2001, at the capital's Belpa skating rink, the future champion local club Ankara Buyuksehir Beledeyesi staged a formal defeat of outsiders from the Istanbul student team Ted College - 67:3. This is the second most productive match in the history of world hockey.

All 16 playoff participants have been determined in the Super League. Novokuznetsk Metallurg became unattainable for Chelyabinsk Traktor, which occupies 17th place. Moreover, all eight teams are already known that will have home-court advantage in the first round of the knockout tournament - early winner of the regular season Ak Bars, Avangard, Salavat Yulaev, Metallurg (Magnitogorsk), Siberia , CSKA, Lokomotiv and Khimik. Ilya TRISVIATSKY

Kramer updated the world achievement

At the final stage of the Speed ​​Skating World Cup in Calgary (Canada), Dutchman Sven Kramer set a new world record at a distance of 5000 m - 6 minutes. 07.48 sec. Kramer dropped 1.30 seconds from his 2005 achievement in Salt Lake City (USA). By the way, this season the Dutchman has already updated the world record at a distance twice as long.

Russian athletes performed well in Calgary. On the first day of the competition, Dmitry Lobkov took second place in the 500-meter dash, behind only American Tucker Fredricks. At the kilometer distance, Evgeny Lalenkov won bronze - only the host of the competition, Danny Morrison, and Shawnee Davis (USA) had a better time. Vladimir ILYIN

The team from Surgut sensationally took the lead

Volleyball. Super League. Men. 9th round. "Neftyanik Bashkortostan" -- "Lokomotiv" Ns -- 3:1, "Dynamo-TTG" -- "Fakel" --- 2:3, "Lokomotiv-Izumrud" -- "Iskra" -- 3:0, " Dynamo-Yantar" - "Lokomotiv-Belogorye" - 3:0, "ZSK-Gazprom" - "Prikamye" - 3:1.

In terms of points, there is a triarchy in the standings. After nine games, Odintsovo’s Iskra, Novy Urengoy’s Fakel and ZSK-Gazprom, which sensationally broke into the company of these European Cup participants from the Surgut region, headed by the country’s honored coach Rafael Khabibullin, have 15 points each. The capital's Dynamo has 14 points, but the blue and whites played one match less. Ilya TRISVIATSKY

Montreal is losing ground in the East

Hockey. NHL. Regular season. "Rangers" -- "St. Louis" -- 3:2 (bull.), "Boston" -- "Montreal" -- 3:1 -- Samsonov "M" (0+1), "Washington" -- Islanders -- 2:6 -- Vic. Kozlov "A" (0+2), "Phoenix" -- "Columbus" -- 3:4, "Los Angeles" -- "Nashville" -- 3:6 -- Radulov "N" (0+1) , “Toronto” – “Buffalo” – 1:3, “Florida” – “Tampa Bay” – 6:2 – Semenov “F” (0+2), “Edmonton” – “Calgary” -- 2:4.

Montreal suffered its fourth defeat in its last five matches and fell back to ninth place in the Eastern Conference, that is, out of the playoff zone. Thus, Alexey Kovalev and Andrey Markov may be released for the Moscow World Championship.

There were no major changes to the league's top scorers over the weekend. Tampa Bay forward Vincent Lecavalier increased his personal tally to 42 goals and is two goals ahead of former Ak Bars Kazan teammate Denis Heatley (Ottawa). In third place with 39 goals is another Tampa hockey player, Martin Saint-Louis. Vladimir ILYIN

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