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Montenegrin specialist Dusko Vujosevic, who last year received the Alexander Gomelsky Prize as the best coach of the men's Euroleague, and last season led the Serbian Partizan (Belgrade) to the Final Four of the continental club championship, became the new coach of the multiple Russian champion CSKA. The contract was signed for three years. Former CSKA coach Evgeny Pashutin took over UNICS Kazan.
Vujosevic is 51 years old and was born in Podgorica. In addition to Partizan, he worked with the Spanish Granada, the Serbian teams Red Star and Radnicki, and the Italian clubs Brescia, Pistoia and Scavolini. In 2003, he headed the national team of the then unified state of Serbia and Montenegro, and since 2007, he has been the helmsman of the national team of sovereign Montenegro.
Zvonareva and Sharapova continue to fight
Yesterday was a day off at the British Open, and today the fourth round (1/8 finals) singles matches begin. Of the large group of Russians, only Maria Sharapova and Vera Zvonareva continue to fight for trophies.
Playing today: Men. Federer (Switzerland) -- Melzer (Austria), Berdych (Czech Republic) -- Brands (Germany), Djokovic (Serbia) -- Hewitt (Australia), Roddick (USA) -- Liu (Taiwan), Tsonga -- Benneteau (both -- France), Murray (Great Britain) -- Querrey (USA), Soderling (Sweden) -- Ferrer (Spain), Nadal (Spain) -- Mathieu (France). The pairings are listed in the order in which they appear in the tournament bracket. Women. S. Williams (USA) - Sharapova, Radwanska (Poland) - Na Li (China), Wozniacki (Denmark) - Kvitova, Zakopalova (both Czech Republic) - Kanepi (Estonia), Clijsters - Enin (both - Belgium), Jankovic (Serbia) - Zvonareva, Pironkova (Bulgaria) - Bartoli (France), V. Williams (USA) - Grotto (Australia).
Silnov won the Znamensky Memorial
Beijing 2008 Olympic champion in high jump Andrei Silnov won the competition in his program at the Znamensky Brothers Memorial held in Zhukovsky near Moscow, which is part of the second most important commercial World Challenge series of the International Athletics Federation calendar.
Silnov showed the best result of the season in the world (2 m 33 cm), but he was able to get ahead of Alexander Shustov only in the smallest number of attempts spent. In total, Russians won victories in eight disciplines at the Znamensky Memorial. In addition to Silnov, these are Pavel Shalin (length), Sergey Makarov (javelin), Anastasia Kapachinskaya (200 m), Maria Savinova (800 m), Daria Klishina (length), Anna Avdeeva (core) and Tatyana Lysenko (hammer). The men's 100-meter race was won by American Mike Rogers (10.18 seconds), and in the 800-meter race, Athens 2004 Olympic champion Yuri Borzakovsky lost to Moroccan Amin Laal. Another winner of the “gold” of the Summer Games, Tatyana Lebedeva, was only sixth in the long jump sector.
The draw for the Volleyball Champions League has taken place
The draw for the Champions League took place in the Austrian capital Vienna. The men's tournament will again feature 24 teams, the women's tournament has been expanded from 16 to 20 participants. You won’t envy the girls from the capital’s “Dynamo” - they were in the same group with the current trophy winner, Italian “Foppapedretti” (Bergamo) and the finalist of the 2009/10 tournament, Turkish “Fenerbahce” (Istanbul).
Draw results. Women. Group "A". “Zarechye-Odintsovo” (Russia), “Vakifbank” (Turkey), “Mushina” (Poland), “Red Star” (Serbia). Group "B". Dynamo M (Russia), Split (Croatia), Fenerbahce, Foppapedretti. Group "C". Volero (Switzerland), Mulhouse (France), Hamper (Spain), Exacibasi (Turkey). Group "D". “Villa Cortese” (Italy), “Cannes” (France), “Prostejov” (Czech Republic), “Lodz” (Poland). Group "E". "Aluprof" (Poland), "Dynamo" (Romania), "Rabita" (Azerbaijan), "Scavolini" (Italy).
Men. Group "A". Zenit (Kazan, Russia), Cannes (France), Unterhaching (Germany), CSKA (Bulgaria). Group "B". “Cuneo” (Italy), “Noliko” (Belgium), “Radnicki” (Serbia), “Teruel” (Spain). Group "C". “Bled” (Slovenia), “Budvanska Riviera” (Montenegro), “Olympiacos” (Greece), “Jastrzembski” (Poland). Group "D". "Remat" (Romania), SKRA (Poland), "Trento" (Italy), "Friedrichshafen" (Germany). Group "E". Lokomotiv-Belogorye (Belgorod, Russia), Sisley (Italy), Tours (France), Fenerbahce (France). Group "F". Dynamo M (Russia), Knack (Belgium), Panathinaikos (Greece), Hipo Tirol (Innsbruck, Austria).
The two best teams from each group are guaranteed to continue fighting for the trophy. For men, they will be accompanied by the club that took third place with the best additional indicators, for women - three such participants. Four more teams from each tournament will advance to the Challenge round of the CEV Cup.
Russia defeated Egypt twice
Volleyball. World League. 4th gaming weekend. Group "C". Egypt - Russia - 0:3 (17:25, 18:25, 16:25), 0:3 (17:25, 12:25, 18:25). USA - Finland - 2:3 (22:25, 25:14, 20:25, 25:19, 11:15), 3:1 (25:21, 18:25, 25:19, 25:23 ). Position: Russia - 23 points (8 wins - 0 losses), USA - 16 (5--3), Finland - 6 (2--6), Egypt - 3 (1--7).
The Russian men's team confidently held away matches with Egypt, which managed to take one point from our volleyball players during the games on the court of the Yantarny Sports Palace in Kaliningrad. In Cairo, in the first match, the most productive for the Russians was diagonal forward Maxim Mikhailov (16 points), and in the second - blocker Dmitry Musersky (13). The captain of our team, Alexey Kazakov, came out onto the court only on Friday. Now he only needs to score one point to reach the milestone of 2000 points won in official matches for the national team. In terms of the total number of games as part of the main team of the country, Kazakov is second only to Sergei Tetyukhin (270 versus 271).
Thanks to the defeat of the Olympic champions Americans from Finland, the Russians further increased their lead from second place. Italian specialist Daniele Bagnoli's team has little effort left to make to get a ticket to the final tournament in Argentina (July 21-25).