* Russia's national soccer team beat Estonia 2-0 at home in a Euro-2008 Group E qualifier.
Group E results and standings (host teams listed first):
- Russia - Estonia - 2:0
- Andorra - Macedonia - 0:3
- Croatia - England - 2:0
1 England - 4 games/7 points/goal difference +4
2 Croatia - 3/7/+9
3 Macedonia - 4/7/+3
4 Israel - 3/7/+4
5 Russia - 3/5/+2
6 Estonia - 3/0/-4
7 Andorra - 4/0/-18
* Men's volleyball team Dinamo Moscow beat France's Paris Volley 3:2 away in European Champions League's qualifying Group B
Group B results and standings (host teams listed first):
Paris Volley - Dinamo Moscow - 2:3 (25-18, 21-25, 28-30, 25-22, 12-15)
Noliko Maaseik (Belgium) - Ortec Rotterdam (Netherlands) - 3:0 (25-19, 25-15, 25-22)
Sisley Treviso (Italy) - Iraklis Thessaloniki (Greece) - 3:0 (25-21, 25-20, 25-19)
1 Sisley - 3 games/6 points
2 Dinamo - 3/6
3 Noliko Maaseik - 3/5
4 Paris Volley - 3/4
5 Iraklis - 3/3
6 Ortec - 3/3
* At the NBA Europe Live basketball tournament's finals in Cologne (Germany), involving top European and U.S. NBA teams (ended October 11):
- CSKA Moscow failed to win the title, losing to Philadelphia Sixers (U.S.) 71:85 in the final
* At the $2.34-million Kremlin Cup tennis tournament in Moscow, Russia (through October 15):
Women's singles:
- No.2-seed Maria Sharapova advanced to the quarterfinals, beating compatriot Yekaterina Bychkova 6-4, 7-5
- No.4-seed Yelena Dementyeva advanced to the quarterfinals, defeating Shahar Peer (Israel) 4-6, 7-6, 6-3
- No.5-seed Nadezhda Petrova advanced to the quarterfinals, beating compatriot Yelena Likhovtseva 6-3, 7-5
- Vera Zvonaryova advanced to the quarterfinals, beating compatriot and No.3-seed Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-1, 6-3
- Anna Chakvetadze advanced to the quarterfinals, beating last year's runner-up Francesca Schiavone (Italy) 7-6, 6-4
Women's doubles:
- Vera Dushevina and Maria Kirilenko advanced to the quarterfinals, beating compatriots Anna Chakvetadze and Yelena Vesnina 1-6, 6-4, 6-1
- Galina Voskoboeva and Iveta Benesova (Czech Republic) advanced to the semifinals, defeating No.4-seed duo Anna-Lena Groenefeld (Germany) and Liezel Huber (South Africa) 6-2, 2-6, 6-3
Men's singles:
- Igor Kunitsyn advanced to the quarterfinals, beating Jan Hernych (Czech Republic) 6-4 4-6, 62
- Konstantin Kravchuk failed to advance to the quarterfinals, losing to No.7-seed Fabrice Santoro (France) 1-6, 1-6
- Yevgeny Korolyov lost to Philipp Kohlschreiber (Germany) 3-6, 2-6 in the second round
- No.2-seed Dmitry Tursunov lost to unseeded Sergiy Stakhovsky (Ukraine) 5-7, 6-4, 6-7 in the first round
* SuperLeague hockey results and standings (host teams listed first):
Amur Khabarovsk - Sibir Novosibirsk - 0:2
1 Ak Bars Kazan - 14 games/35 points/goal difference +34
2 Sibir Novosibirsk - 13/29/+10
3 Khimik Voskresensk - 13/25/+13
4 HK MVD Tver - 13/23/+7
5 Avangard Omsk - 13/23/+6
6 Vityaz Podolsk - 13/22/-3
7 Lada Tolyatty - 12/19/+4
8 Salavat Yulayev Ufa - 12/19/+2
9 Dinamo Moscow - 13/18/-3
10 CSKA Moscow - 13/17/+2
11 SKA St. Petersburg - 13/16/-1
12 Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk - 14/16/-7
13 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl - 12/16/-2
14 Severstal Cherepovets - 13/15/-12
15 Metallurg Magnitogorsk - 13/14/-1
16 Traktor Chelyabinsk - 13/14/-12
17 Metallurg Novokuznetsk - 12/11/-10
18 Krylya Sovietov Moscow - 12/9/-14
19 Amur Khabarovsk - 13/9/-13
* Russian men's basketball SuperLeague results and standings:
Dinamo Moscow Region - Spartak St. Petersburg - 81:73
Sibirtelekom-Lokomotiv Novosibirsk - Dinamo Moscow - 76:84
1 Spartak-Primorye - 2 games/4 points
2 Dinamo Moscow - 2/3
3 UNICS Kazan - 1/2
4 Dinamo Moscow Region - 1/2
5 Universitet-Ugra Surgut - 1/2
6 Khimky Moscow Region - 1/1
7 Sibirtelekom-Lokomotiv Novosibirsk - 1/1
8 Spartak St. Petersburg - 1/1
9 CSK VVS Samara - 1/1
10 Standard Samara Region - 1/1
11-13 CSKA Moscow - 0/0
11-13 Ural-Great Perm - 0/0
11-13 Lokomotiv-Rostov Rostov-on-Don - 0/0
