* At the LEN European Water Polo Championship in Belgrade, Serbia (through September 10)
Women:
- Russia took second place in qualifying Group B to take on the Netherlands in the quarterfinals.
Group final standings:
Group B
1 Italy - 3 games/9 points/goal difference +12
2 Russia - 3/6/+14
3 Greece - 3/3/-6
4 Germany - 3/0/-20
Group A final standings:
1 Hungary - 3/7/+23
2 Spain - 3/7/+14
3 Netherlands - 3/3/+4
4 Serbia - 3/0/-41
Men:
- Russia took fourth place in qualifying Group A, and will now play in a qualifying group for 7-12 places. Europe's top nine teams will secure a berth in the next year's World Championship.
Results and group final standings:
Group A
Serbia - Romania - 13:5
1 Serbia - 5/15/+44
2 Spain - 5/9/+4
3 Romania - 5/7/-7
4 Russia - 5/6/-4
5 Netherlands - 5/5/-11
6 Slovakia - 5/1/-26
Group B
1 Hungary - 5/15/+41
2 Italy - 5/9/+7
3 Greece - 5/7/+11
4 Germany - 5/7/-2
5 Croatia - 5/5/+5
6 Slovenia - 5/0/-62
* At the $19-million U.S. Open Grand Slam tennis tournament in New York (through September 10)
- No.4-seed Yelena Dementyeva failed to advance to the semifinals in the women's singles, losing to No.19-seed Jelena Jankovic (Serbia) 2-6, 1-6 before matches were suspended due to rain.
Interim results in the suspended matches:
Men's singles 4th round:
- Nikolai Davydenko (7) leads No.17-seed Andy Murray (U.K.) 6-1, 5-7, 6-3 after the third set
- Marat Safin leads No.14-seed Tommy Haas (Germany) 2-1 in the first set
Men's singles 3rd round:
- Mikhail Yuzhny and Leos Friedl (Czech Republic) trail top-seed U.S. duo Bob and Mike Bryan 6-7, 0-1 in the second set
* Russia will face Croatia in Moscow Wednesday night in its first Euro-2008 qualifier in Group E.
Group E results and standings:
- Estonia - Macedonia - 0:1
- England - Andorra - 5:0
- Estonia - Israel - 0:1
1 England - 1 game/3 points/goal difference +5
2-3 Israel - 1/3/+1
2-3 Macedonia 1/3/+1
4-5 Russia - 0/0/0
4-5 Croatia - 0/0/0
6 Estonia - 2/0/-2
7 Andorra - 1/0/-5
