* At the 2006 IIHF world hockey championship that started May 5 in Latvia (through May 21),
Russia beat Slovakia 4-3 in Group C to advance to the qualifying round with a maximum four points
Preliminary round final standings:
Group A:
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:
1 Sweden - 3/5/12-6
2 Switzerland - 3/5/9-6
3 Ukraine - 3/2/7-8
4 Italy - 3/0/3-11
Group C:
1 Russia - 3/6/17-6
2 Belarus - 3/4/11-5
3 Slovakia - 3/2/10-6
4 Kazakhstan - 2/0/2:23
Group D:
1 Canada - 3/6/14-5
2 USA - 3/4/7-3
3 Norway - 3/2/8-13
4 Denmark - 3/0/6-14
Team standings for the qualifying round (May 11-16):
Group E (comprises the top three teams of Groups A and D, with points from the preliminary round):
1 Canada - games-2/ points-4/ goal difference 9-2
2 Finland - 2/3/8-3
3 USA - 2/2/4-3
4 Czech Republic - 2/2/4-4
5 Latvia - 2/1/1-6
6 Norway - 2/0/2-10
Group F (comprises the top three teams of Groups B and C, with points from the preliminary round):
1 Russia - 2/4/7-5
2 Sweden - 2/3/8-6
3 Switzerland - 2/3/6-5
4 Belarus - 2/2/4-4
5 Slovakia - 2/0/4-6
6 Ukraine - 2/0/3-6
The top four teams of each group advance to the quarterfinals (May 17-18).
Semifinals are set for May 20, with the bronze medal match and final May 21.
* At the $1.7-mln Qatar Telecom German Open WTA tennis tournament in Berlin, Germany (through May 14)
Women's singles:
- Dinara Safina, seeded No. 10 for the tournament, advanced to the quarterfinals, by defeating eighth-seed Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia 6-3, 6-2
- Yelena Dementyeva (5) failed to advance to the quarterfinals, losing to Martina Hingis of Switzerland 2-6, 3-6
- Maria Kirilenko (15) lost to third-seed Justine Henin-Hardenne of Belgium 1-6, 0-6 in the third round
- Vera Dushevina lost to world No. 1 and top-seed Amelie Mauresmo of France 1-6, 2-6 in the second round
Women's doubles:
- Vera Dushevina and Galina Voskoboyeva advanced to the quarterfinals, by defeating Germans Angelika Bachmann and Vanessa Henke 7-5, 6-1
- Fourth-seed pair Nadezhda Petrova and Anna-Lena Groenefel advanced to the quarterfinals, beating Cara Black (Zimbabwe) and Nathalie Dechy (France) 7-5, 6-3
- Dinara Safina and Roberta Vinci of Italy beat top-seed duo Yelena Likhovtseva (Russia) and Liezel Huber (South Africa) 6-4, 7-6 to advance to the quarterfinals
- Anastasiya Rodionova and Andreea Vanc of Romania failed to advance to the quarterfinals, losing to eighth-seed pair Eleni Daniilidou of Greece and Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain 3-6, 6-0 1-6
* 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 third round by defeating Fernando Verdasco of Spain 6-1, 3-6, 6-0
- Marat Safin failed to advance to the third round, losing to Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo of Spain 6-0, 6-7, 6-7
- Mikhail Yuzhny lost to tenth-seed Fernando Gonzalez of Chile 4-6, 7-5, 3-6 in the second round
* Vasily Mosin won gold in the men's double-trap competition at the ISSF World Cup round in Kerrville, United States, with a total of 189 points. Hakan Dahlby of Sweden took silver with 185 points, beating Richard Faulds of the UK on extra shots
* Svetlana Demina won silver in the women's skeet competition at the ISSF World Cup round with 91 points, losing to winner Connie Smotek of the U.S. on extra shots. Danka Bartekova of Slovakia took bronze with 90 points
* CSKA Moscow will face Spartak Moscow in the Russian Cup 2005/2006 soccer final.
Second-leg results (host teams listed first):
Zenit St. Petersburg - CSKA Moscow - 0:3 (CSKA wins 4:0 on aggregate)
Saturn Ramenskoye - Spartak Moscow - 1:3 (Spartak wins 4:2 on aggregate)
The final will take place at Moscow's Luzhniki stadium May 20
