* At the FIBA World Basketball Women's Championship in Brazil (through September 23):
Russia beat Nigeria 84:50 in Group C:
Group C results and standings:
Russia - Nigeria - 84:50
United States - China - 119:72
1 Russia - 1 game/2 points/goal coefficient 1.68
2 United States - 1/2/1.65
3 China 1/1/0.60
4 Nigeria 1/1/0.59
* Spartak Moscow soccer team lost to Germany's FC Bayern Munich 0:4 in UEFA Champions League tournament's Group B
Group B results and standings (host teams listed first):
Sporting Lisbon (Portugal) - Inter Milan (Italy) - 1:0
FC Bayern Munich - Spartak Moscow - 4:0
1 Bayern - 1 game/3 points/goal difference +4
2 Sporting - 1/3/+1
3 Inter - 1/0/-1
4 Spartak - 1/0/-4
* At the $500,000 China Open ATP tennis tournament in Beijing (through September 17):
- No.2-seed Nikolai Davydenko advanced to the second round, beating Kenneth Carlsen (Denmark) 6-3, 6-4
* At the $410,000 Romania Open ATP tennis tournament in Bucharest (through September 17):
- Top-seed Dmitry Tursunov advanced to the second round, beating Alexander Waske (Germany) 1-6, 7-6, 6-4
* At the $225,000 Wismilak International WTA tennis tournament in Bali, Indonesia (through September 17):
- Top-seed Svetlana Kuznetsova advanced to the quarterfinals, beating Erika Takao (Japan) 6-1, 6-2
* SuperLeague hockey results and standings (host teams listed first):
Khimik Voskresensk - Amur Khabarovsk - 4:1
Severstal Cherepovets - CSKA Moscow - 0:4
Dinamo Moskow - Metallurg Magnitogorsk - 3:2
Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk - Salavat Yulayev Ufa - 1:2
SKA St. Petersburg - Vityaz Podolsk - 5:2
Ak Bars Kazan - Lada Tolyatty - 6:3
HK MVD Tver - Traktor Chelyabinsk - 3:2
Avangard Omsk - Krylya Sovietov Moscow - 1:1
1 Ak Bars Kazan - 3 games/6 points/goal difference +7
2 HK MVD Tver - 3/8/+3
3 SKA St. Petersburg - 3/7/+6
4 Salavat Yulayev Ufa - 3/7/+2
5 Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk - 3/6/+7
6 Khimik Voskresensk - 2/6/+6
7 CSKA Moscow - 3/4/+1
8 Metallurg Magnitogorsk - 3/4/+2
9 Avangard Omsk - 2/4/+2
10 Vityaz Podolsk - 3/4/-2
11 Lada Tolyatty - 3/3/-3
12 Sibir Novosibirsk - 2/3/0
13 Severstal Cherepovets - 3/3/-5
14 Dinamo Moskow - 3/3/-2
15 Metallurg Novokuznetsk - 2/2/0
16 Krylya Sovietov Moscow - 3/1/-6
17 Amur Khabarovsk - 3/1/-9
18 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl - 2/0/-5
19 Traktor Chelyabinsk - 3/0/-6
