* At the 2006 UEFA European Under-17 Championship soccer finals in Luxembourg (through May 14):
Group A results and final standings:
Russia - Hungary - 1:0
Spain - Luxembourg - 7:1
Spain - Russia - 3:0
Luxembourg - Hungary - 0:4
Spain - Hungary - 2:0
Luxembourg - Russia - 0:2
1 Spain - games-3/ points-9/ goal difference 12-1
2 Russia - 3/4/3-3
3 Hungary - 3/2/4-3
4 Luxembourg - 3/0/1-13
Group B results and standings:
Belgium - Germany - 0:4
Serbia and Montenegro - Czech Republic 1:2
Belgium - Serbia and Montenegro - 1:1
Germany - Czech Republic 0:0
Germany - Serbia and Montenegro - 4:0
Czech Republic - Belgium - 3:1
1 Germany - games-3/ points-7/ goal difference 8-0
2 Czech Republic - 3/7/5-2
3 Serbia and Montenegro - 3/1/2-7
4 Belgium - 3/1/2-8
Russia will play Germany in the semifinals May 11. Spain and Czech Republic will play in the other semifinals.
The final and bronze-medal matches set for May 14.
* At the 2006 IIHF world hockey championship that started May 5 in Latvia (through May 21), Russia will play Slovakia in its last match in Group C May 10.
Preliminary round results and standings:
Group A:
Latvia - Czech Republic - 1:1
Finland - Slovenia - 5:3
Czech Republic - Slovenia - 5:4
Finland - Latvia - 5:0
Slovenia - Latvia - 1:5
Czech Republic - Finland - 3:3
1 Finland - games-3/ points-5/ goal difference 13-6
2 Czech Republic - 3/4/9-8
3 Latvia - 3/3/6-7
4 Slovenia - 3/0/8-15
Group B:
Switzerland - Italy 3:1
Ukraine - Sweden - 2:4
Switzerland - Ukraine - 2:1
Sweden - Italy - 4:0
Sweden - 2/4/8-2
Switzerland - 2/4/5-2
Ukraine - 2/0/3-6
Italy - 2/0/1-7
Group C:
Belarus - Slovakia 2-1
Russia - Kazakstan - 10:1
Russia - Belarus - 3:2
Slovakia - Kazakhstan - 6:0
1 Russia - 2/4/13-3
2 Slovakia - 2/2/7-2
3 Belarus - 2/2/4-4
4 Kazakhstan - 2/0/1:16
Group D:
Canada - Denmark - 5:3
USA - Norway - 3:1
USA - Denmark - 3:0
Canada - Norway - 7:1
Norway - Denmark - 6:3
Canada - USA - 2:1
1 Canada - 3/6/14-5
2 USA - 3/4/7-3
3 Norway - 3/2/8-13
4 Denmark - 3/0/6-14
The top three teams of each group will form two 6-team groups in the qualifying round (May 11-16).
The top four teams of each group advance to the quarterfinals (May 17-18).
Semifinals are set for May 20, with the third-place playoff and final on May 21.
* At the $2.4-mln Internazionali d'Italia ATP Masters Series tennis tournament in Rome, Italy (through May 14)
Men's singles:
- Nikolay Davidenko, seeded No. 6 for the tournament, advanced to the second round by defeating Boris Pashanski of Serbia and Montenegro 6-1, 6-4
- Marat Safin beat compatriot Teimuraz Gabashvili 7-5, 3-6, 6-1 to advance to the second round
Men's doubles:
- Marat Safin and Dmitry Tursunov failed to advance to the second round, losing to Leander Paes of India and Radek Stepanek of Czech Republic 5-7, 3-6
- Nikolai Davidenko and Dominik Hrbaty of Slovakia lost to Jarkko Nieminen of Finland and Belgium's Olivier Rochus 5-7, 6-3, 10-4 in the first round
* At the $1.7-mln Qatar Telecom German Open WTA tennis tournament in Berlin, Germany (through May 14)
Women's singles:
- Nadezhda Petrova, seeded No. 2 for the tournament, beat compatriot Vera Zvonareva 6-1, 7-6 to advance to the third round
- Yelena Dementieva (5) advanced to the third round by defeating beat Julia Vakulenko of Ukraine 6-1, 3-0 (ret.)
- Svetlana Kuznetsova (6) beat Martina Muller of Germany 6-3, 3-6, 6-0 in the second round
- Dinara Safina (10) cruised into the third round, beating Kveta Peschke of the Czech Republic 6-3, 6-1
- Maria Kirilenko (15) advanced to the third round by defeating Klara Koukalova of the Czech Republic 6-4, 6-3
- Anna Chakvetadze advanced to the third round, beating Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain 6-3, 6-4
- Vera Dushevina advanced to the second round by defeating Tathiana Garbin of Italy 2-6, 7-6, 6-2
- Vera Zvonareva beat Gisela Dulko of Argentina in the first round 3-6, 6-2, 6-2
- Ninth-seed Yelena Likhovtseva failed to advance to the second round, losing 3-6, 4-6 to Laura Pous Tio of Spain
- Yekaterina Bychkova lost to Anna Smashnova of Israel 4-6, 6-4, 4-6 in the first round
- Yelena Vesnina lost to Kveta Peschke of Czech Republic 4-6, 3-6 in the first round
- Tatiana Panova lost to Anabel Medina Garrigues (16) of Spain 1-6, 2-6 in the first round
Women's doubles:
- Yelena Dementyeva and Flavia Penetta of Italy, seeded No. 5 for the tournament, advanced to the second round by defeating Kateryna Bondarenko (Ukraine) and Hana Sromova (Czech Republic) 6-2, 6-3
- Vera Dushevina and Galina Voskoboyeva beat seventh-seed Chinese pair Ting Li and Tiantian Sun 7-5, 6-0 in the first round
- Sixth-seed Mariya Kirilenko and Gisela Dulko cruised into the second round, beating Austrian duo Daniela Klemenschits and Sandra Klemenschits 6-1, 6-1
- Dinara Safina and Roberta beat French pair Severine Bremond and Stephanie Cohen-Aloro 6-1, 7-5 in the first round
- Anastasiya Rodionova and Andreea Vanc of Romania beat Klaudia Jans (Poland) and Mervana Jugic-Salkic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) in the first round 4-6, 6-3, 6-3
- Anna Chakvetadze and Yelena Vesnina failed to advance to the second round, losing to Cara Black (Zimbabwe) and Nathalie Dechy (France) 5-7, 6-3, 5-7
- Vera Zvonareva and Meilen Tu of the U.S. lost to eighth-seed Eleni Danilidou (Greece) and Anabel Medina Garrigues (Spain) in the first round 4-6, 4-6
* Dinamo Moscow beat defending champion Lokomotiv-Belogorye Belgorod 3:1 (21:25, 25:22, 25:12, 25:21) in the away fourth leg of the best-of-five finals of the Russian men's volleyball championship to tie the series 2-2. The decisive fifth leg will take place in Moscow May 13.
* Iskra Odintsovo won bronze in the Russian men's volleyball championship, beating Fakel Novy Urengoy away in the fourth leg of the best-of-five bronze-medal tie, 3:2 (22:25, 16:25, 25:23, 25:17, 15:13). Iskra won the series 3-1
* Russian men's basketball SuperLeague best-of-five quarterfinals results (host teams listed first):
CSKA Moscow - Lokomotiv-Rostov Rostov-on-Don - 82:71
CSKA - Lokomotiv 94:56
Lokomotiv - CSKA - 82:107
(CSKA wins the series 3-0)
UNICS Kazan - Dinamo Moscow - 91:74
UNICS - Dinamo - 73:52
Dinamo - UNICS - 83:84
(UNICS wins the series 3-0)
Dinamo St. Petersburg - Ural-Great Perm - 75:72
Dinamo - Ural-Great - 77:74
Ural-Great - Dinamo - 79:72
Ural-Great - Dinamo - 70:83
(Dinamo wins the series 3-1)
Khimky Moscow Region - Dinamo Moscow Region - 82:72
Khimky - Dinamo - 85:77
Dinamo - Khimky - 71:81
(Khimky wins the series 3-0)
The draw for the best-of-five semifinals:
CSKA Moscow - UNICS Kazan
Dinamo St. Petersburg - Khimky Moscow Region
* Soccer Premier League Week 8 results (host teams listed first):
Krylya Sovietov Samara - Tom Tomsk - 2:1
CSKA Moscow - Amkar Perm - 2:0
FC Rostov - Saturn Ramenskoye - 0:2
Lokomotiv Moscow - Zenit St. Petersburg - 3:1
Rubin Kazan - FC Moscow - 2:0
Spartak Moscow - Torpedo Moscow - 2:0
Spartak Nalchik - Dinamo Moscow - 1:0
Luch-Energia Vladivostok - Shinnik Yaroslavl - 1:0
Team standings after Week 8:
1 Rubin Kazan - 17 points/goal difference 13-8
2 CSKA Moscow - 16/14-6
3 Krylya Sovietov Samara - 14/8-6
4 Tom Tomsk - 14 /8-6
5 Spartak Moscow - 13/15-11
6 Spartak Nalchik - 12/11-10
7 Lokomotiv Moscow - 8/15-14
8 FC Moscow - 11/8-12
9 Saturn Ramenskoye - 11/7-3
10 FC Rostov - 8/8-8 (after 7 games)
11 Zenit St. Petersburg - 8/12-14 (after 7 games)
12 Luch-Energia Vladivostok - 8/8-10
13 Torpedo Moscow - 7/5-8
14 Amkar Perm - 7/4-8
15 Shinnik Yaroslavl - 6/3-11
16 Dinamo Moscow - 5/6-10
