* At the 2006 UEFA European Under-17 Championship soccer finals in Luxembourg (through May 14):
- Russia advanced to the final beating Germany 1:0. The Czech Republic beat Spain 2:0 in the other semifinal.
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 beat Ukraine 6:0 to advance to the quarterfinals, regardless of results in its two remaining games with Switzerland and Sweden
Results and standings:
Group E (comprises the top three teams from Groups A and D, with points from the preliminary round):
Canada - Latvia - 11:0
1 Canada - games-3/ points-6/ goal difference 20-2
2 Finland - 2/3/8-3
3 USA - 2/2/4-3
4 Czech Republic - 2/2/4-4
5 Latvia - 3/1/1-17
6 Norway - 2/0/2-10
Group F (comprises the top three teams from Groups B and C, with points from the preliminary round):
Russia - Ukraine 6:0
1 Russia - 2/6/13-5
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 - 3/0/3-12
The top four teams from 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:
- Nadezhda Petrova, seeded No. 2 for the tournament, advanced to the quarterfinals by defeating Zheng Jie of China 7-6, 4-6, 6-4
- Sixth-seed Svetlana Kuznetsova cruised into the quarterfinals, beating Sybille Bammer of Austria 6-2, 6-4
Women's doubles:
- Fifth-seed pair Yelena Dementyeva and Flavia Penetta of Italy advanced to the quarterfinals, defeating Emilia Salerni of Argentina and Bryanne Stewart of Australia 6-4, 4-6, 6-2
- Sixth-seed Maria Kirilenko and Gisela Dulko of Argentina failed to advance to the quarterfinals, losing to unseeded Iveta Benesova (Czech Republic) and Michaella Krajicek (Netherlands) 2-6, 3-6
* At the $2.4-mln Internazionali d'Italia ATP Masters Series tennis tournament in Rome, Italy (through May 14)
- Russia lost its last representative at the tournament as Nikolai Davidenko, seeded No. 6 for the tournament, failed to advanced to the quarterfinals when he retired due to injury in the second set against unseeded Nicolas Almagro of Spain
* At the M-Tel Masters chess tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria (through May 21):
- Pyotr Svidler, world No. 4 in the FIDE rankings, drew with world No. 1 Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the first round
Results and standings after Round 1:
Pyotr Svidler (4, Russia) - Veselin Topalov (1, Bulgaria) - 0.5:0.5
Etienne Bacrot (15, France) - Viswanathan Anand (2, India) - 0:1
Ruslan Ponomariov (6, Ukraine) - Gata Kamsky (33, USA) - 0.5:0.5
1 Anand - 1 point
2-5 Topalov - 0.5
2-5 Svidler - 0.5
2-5 Ponomariov - 0.5
2-5 Kamsky - 0.5
6 Bacrot - 0
