* At the 2006 IIHF world hockey championship that started May 5 in Latvia (through May 21):
Russia drew 3:3 with Sweden in its last match in group F.
Results and Group standings:
Group E (comprises the top three teams from Groups A and D, with points from the preliminary round):
Finland - Canada - 2:4
1 Canada - games-5/ points-8/ goal difference 28-10
2 Finland - 5/7/17-7
3 Czech Republic - 4/4/13-9
4 USA - 4/4/8-9
5 Latvia - 4/1/3-21
6 Norway - 4/0/3-16
Group F (comprises the top three teams from Groups B and C, with points from the preliminary round):
Sweden - Russia - 3:3
1 Russia - 5/9/22-11
2 Sweden - 5/6/17-15
3 Belarus - 4/4/14-9
4 Switzerland - 4/4/11-13
5 Slovakia - 4/3/11-10
6 Ukraine - 4/0/4-21
The top four teams from each group advance to the quarterfinals (May 17-18).
The semifinals are set for May 20, with the bronze medal match and final May 21.
* At the $1.34-mln Internazionali d'Italia WTA tennis tournament in Rome, Italy (through May 21)
Singles:
- Anastasia Myskina (10) advanced to the second round by defeating Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) 6-3, 3-6, 7-6
- Vera Zvonaryova beat Shahar Peer (Israel) 1-6, 6-2, 6-0 to advance to the second round
- Yelena Likhovtseva (14) failed to advance to the second round, losing to Jelena Jankovic (Serbia and Montenegro) 4-6, 3-6
- Maria Kirilenko lost to Mara Santangelo (Italy) 6-3, 3-6, 5-7 in the first round
Doubles:
- Dinara Safina and Roberta Vinci (Italy) advanced to the second round, beating 6-3, 6-3 Marta Domachowska (Poland) and Emmanuelle Gagliardi (Switzerland)
- Vera Dushevina and Galina Voskoboeva failed to advance to the second round losing to fifth seeds Anabel Medina Garrigues (Spain) and Katarina Srebotnik (Slovenia) 5-7, 3-6
- Vera Zvonareva and Meilen Tu (U.S.) lost to eighth-seeded duo Kveta Peschke (Czech Republic) and Francesca Schiavone (Italy) 4-6, 4-6 in the first round
* At the $2.67-mln ATP Masters Series tennis tournament in Hamburg, Germany
- Nikolai Davydenko advanced to the singles second round by defeating Nicolas Massu (Chile) 6-3, 6-4
- Marat Safin failed to advance to the singles second round losing to Flavio Saretta (Brazil) 7-5, 0-6, 4-6
- Mikhail Yuzhny lost to Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (Spain) 0-6, 4-6 in the singles first round
- Dmitry Tursunov lost to seventh-seeded Fernando Gonzalez (Chile) 4-6, 3-6 in the singles first round
* At the M-Tel Masters chess tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria (through May 21):
- Russian grandmaster Pyotr Svidler, world No. 4 in the FIDE rankings, shares third place with World Champion Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria) after Round 5.
Results and standings after Round 5:
Round 5 (players listed first play White):
Veselin Topalov (1, Bulgaria) - Gata Kamsky (33, U.S.) - 1:0
Pyotr Svidler (4, Russia) - Viswanathan Anand (2, India) - 0.5:0.5
Ruslan Ponomariov (6, Ukraine) - Etienne Bacrot (15, France) - 0.5:0.5
1-2 Kamsky - 3.5 points
1-2 Anand - 3.5
3-4 Svidler - 2
3-4 Topalov - 1.5
5-6 Ponomariov - 1.5
5-6 Bacrot - 1.5
* Premier League week 9 soccer results (host teams listed first):
Dinamo Moscow - Spartak Moscow - 0:0
Team standings after Week 9:
1 CSKA Moscow - 19 points/ goal difference +9
2 Rubin Kazan - 17 points/ +4
3 Tom Tomsk - 17 /+3
4 Spartak Nalchik - 15/+2
5 Krylya Sovietov Samara - 15/+2
6 Lokomotiv Moscow - 14/+4
7 Spartak Moscow - 14/+4
8 Saturn Ramenskoye - 12/+4
9 Zenit St. Petersburg - 11/-1 (after 8 games)
10 FC Moscow - 11/-5
11 Amkar Perm - 10/-3
12 FC Rostov - 8/-1 (after 8 games)
13 Luch-Energia Vladivostok - 8/-3
14 Torpedo Moscow - 7/-6
15 Dinamo Moscow - 6/-4
16 Shinnik Yaroslavl - 6/-9
