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Two Russian tennis players distinguished themselves at the end of last week. Elena Dementieva won the tournament in Luxembourg, defeating the Danish Caroline Wozniacki in the decisive round - 2:6, 6:4, 7:6 (7:4). And Vera Zvonareva reached the final of the competition in Linz, where she lost to Ana Ivanovich from Serbia - 6:2, 6:1.
Commenting on her victory, Olympic champion Elena Dementieva said that she felt like she had won a Grand Slam tournament. “The final against Caroline Wozniacki was the most difficult of my career. She defended herself well and attacked confidently. I had to stay aggressive and keep my spirit up throughout the match and I'm very happy that I managed to win. Now I’m going to the tournament in Monaco, which will be my final one before Doha,” the official BTA website quotes the tennis player as saying.
Unlike her compatriot, Vera Zvonareva admitted that she was disappointed with her performance in the final, where at decisive moments she lost concentration. The Russian explained her mistakes by numerous flights and matches that she played in recent weeks. Nevertheless, at the end of the tournament, Zvonareva rose three positions in the championship race and settled in sixth place, which gives her the right to participate in the final championship in Doha.
In addition to Zvonareva, the top eight includes the names of three more Russians - Dinara Safina (2), Elena Dementieva (4) and Svetlana Kuznetsova (7).
The men's Masters tournament started in Paris yesterday. Russian Marat Safin dropped out of the fight, losing to Argentinean Juan Monaco - 0:6, 6:7 (4:7). Earlier, Dmitry Tursunov reached the second round, defeating the Frenchman Henrian Mannarino - 6:3, 6:2. Two announced tennis players withdrew from the tournament - Frenchman Richard Gasquet and Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis, who was unable to complete the opening match with American Sam Querrey due to injury.
The world champions started the season with a victory
The first stage of the Figure Skating Grand Prix ended in Everett, America. The current world champions, France's Isabelle Delobel and Olivier Schönfelder, won in ice dancing. They beat the American duo Tanit Belban - Benjamin Agosto, who have been training under the guidance of Russian coaches Natalia Linichuk and Gennady Karponosov since this season, by almost a point. The Russian pair Ekaterina Rubleva - Ivan Schaefer, based on the results of three programs - compulsory, original and free - became sixth, almost 28 points behind the French.
In women's single skating, the victory was won by Korean Yu Na Kim, who was in the lead after the short and free programs. Russian figure skaters did not take part in the American stage.
Let us remind you that following the results of these competitions, the Russians won one bronze medal in pairs skating. Its owners were the 2008 European vice-champions Maria Mukhortova - Maxim Trankov. The next Grand Prix will be held in Ottawa, Canada on October 31 - November 2.
Colleagues recognized Ronaldo as the best in the world
Manchester United midfielder Cristiano Ronaldo is recognized as the best player in the world according to the International Federation of Professional Footballers. 57,500 football players belonging to this organization took part in the voting. The 23-year-old Portuguese beat out AC Milan's Brazilian playmaker Kaka, who won the award last year. Last season, Ronaldo scored 39 goals in 45 matches for Manchester United.
Donets has collected a collection of medals
In Sydney, Australia, at the World Cup in short course swimming (in a 25-meter pool), Russian Stanislav Donets won three medals of varying denominations. Gold - in the 100m backstroke, silver - in the 50m backstroke and bronze - in the 200m backstroke. At the “fifty dollar”, Donets simultaneously updated the Russian record, which is now equal to 23.63 seconds.
During the two days of competition, two world records, authored by Australians, were also broken. Matt Javkovich updated his previous achievement in the 50m butterfly - 22.50 seconds, and Robert Hurley in the 50m backstroke - 23.24 seconds.
Football union accounts frozen in Poland
Polish authorities said they had frozen some bank accounts belonging to the football association. On Monday, Warsaw Tax Chamber spokeswoman Agnieszka Zukowska said the measures were taken because the union owes about $3.2 million in taxes, AP reported. Zukowska did not indicate the exact amount that was in these accounts. This situation occurred three days before the election of a new president of the union.
Kramnik won the tenth game
The tenth game of the match for the world chess championship title between Viswanathan Anand (India) and Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) took place on Monday. Kramnik played with white pieces. Anand resigned on the 29th move. Thus, the score in the match became 6:4 in favor of Anand.