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In the new individual ranking of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), Russian Vera Zvonareva takes second place - this is her highest achievement. Last week the Muscovite was third, but now she is ahead of the American Serena Williams (6096 points versus 5355). Danish Caroline Wozniacki is in the lead (7270).
Zvonareva will take part in the final tournament of the women's tennis season, the WTA Championship, which starts today in the capital of Qatar, Doha. The prize fund of the competition is $4.5 million. The eight strongest players who earned the most rating points in 2010 are participating. At the preliminary stage, the “burgundy” group consisted of Wozniacki, Italian Francesca Schiavvone, Samantha Stosur from Australia and our Elena Dementieva. The “white” quartet included Zvonareva, Kim Clijsters (Belgium), Jelena Jankovic (Serbia) and the winner of the Moscow Kremlin Cup, which ended last week, Victoria Azarenka (Belarus). The tournament will begin on October 26 with the Zvonareva-Jankovic match, also in the program of the first game day of the match Wozniacki-Dementiev and Schiavone-Stosur.
Ukrainian director of Euro 2012 denies the fact of bribery
The statement about Ukraine and Poland bribing UEFA officials to obtain the right to host the final part of the 2012 European Football Championship is slander, Markiyan Lubkivsky, director of the Ukrainian organizing committee for Euro 2012 in Ukraine, told RIA Novosti.
“If a person has any complaints, he goes to court, provides relevant evidence, and these issues are resolved in court. If there is no such evidence, a person risks being accused of libel. I am convinced that this is exactly what we are talking about,” said Lubkivsky.
He also called the statement of the representative of Cyprus Spyros Marangos that he allegedly has evidence of bribery of UEFA officials in the elections of the countries organizing Euro 2012, stupidity and pseudo-sensation. Lubkivsky predicts that similar statements may be made in the future, since previously false information regarding the organization of Euro 2012 also appeared. “The tournament has both friends and enemies. We have much more difficult tasks related to the organization and preparation of the tournament than responding to such statements,” the official noted.
Let us recall that scandals regarding the actions of the highest governing football organizations in the world and Europe (FIFA and UEFA, respectively) have recently flared up one after another. First, English journalists captured on camera negotiations about bribes with members of the FIFA executive committee - Nigerian Amos Adamu and President of the Oceania Football Confederation Reynald Temaria, who promised assistance in winning the US competition for the right to host the 2018 or 2022 World Cup. This was followed by a statement from the Cypriot Marangos, after which former FIFA Secretary General Michel Zen-Ruffinen spoke candidly about the possibilities and forms of bribery of high-ranking football officials.
Russian woman breaks Dublin marathon record
More than 13 thousand people from 74 countries took part in the 31st Dublin City Marathon, which took place yesterday in the Irish capital. Among the women, the fastest was Russian Tatyana Aryasova, who set a new track record time.
She spent 2 hours 26 minutes on the distance. 12 sec. Thus, as ITAR-TASS reports, our runner beat the previous record set in Dublin in 2003 by Kenyan Ruth Kitol (2:27.22). Among the men, Kenyan Moses Kibet took the lead in 2:08.58. His time is also the best in the history of this marathon. The African surpassed the result of Russian Alexey Sokolov dated 2007 (2:09.07).
Kovalchuk's puck didn't save New Jersey
Hockey. NHL. Regular season. Tampa Bay - Nashville - 3:4, Calgary - San Jose - 4:0, Rangers - New Jersey - 3:1 - Kovalchuk "N" (1+0) .
Russian national team forward Ilya Kovalchuk, by decision of New Jersey coach John McLean, was not included in the lineup for the Devils’ previous match with Buffalo, which the team, which was left without its scorer, humiliatingly lost with a score of 1:6. In the meeting with the Rangers, Ilya was already in the lineup, spent about 23 minutes of net time on the ice and scored the only goal for the guests. But this still did not save the “devils” from defeat.
In the Calgary - San Jose match, all the goals were scored within a short period of time - from the 5th to the 12th minute of the first period.
The best players of the week in the KHL have been named
The Kontinental Hockey League identified the winners of the seventh game week in four categories. Karri Ramo (Vanguard) was recognized as the best goalkeeper. During the week, his team won three victories in three matches, including one shutout, and the goalkeeper reflected 97.6% of shots on target, the KHL official website reports. The best defender was Peter Podhradski (Dynamo Minsk). In four away matches, the Slovakian scored a goal, made an assist and earned a utility rating of “+6”. The strongest forward of the week is Maxim Sushinsky from St. Petersburg SKA, who earned 5 (3+2) points in the “goal plus pass” system in three matches.
Berezhko and Volkov successfully debuted in the A1 series
Volleyball players of the Russian national team, finisher Yuri Berezhko and blocker Alexander Volkov, played their first matches in the Italian A1 series. Both athletes previously played for the capital's Dynamo.
Berezhko signed a contract with Modena in the off-season. His team defeated Latina on the road, with the fifth set ending with a score of 21:19 in favor of the guests. Yuri became the third highest scorer among the winners, winning 14 goals, however, the percentage of attack efficiency leaves much to be desired - 11 successful attacks out of 28. Volkov celebrated home success with Cuneo - a victory in three games over San Giustino, earlier known as "Perugia". Alexander has six points.
Top-level Russian volleyball players have not played in the Italian championship in recent years, although previously almost our entire national team played in the Apennines.