* Russian men's basketball team Dinamo Moscow beat Germany's RheinEnergie Cologne 75:68 at home in 2006/07 Euroleague's qualifying Group A
Results and standings (host teams listed first):
Group A
Dinamo - RheinEnergie - 75:68
Efes Pilsen (Turkey) - Prokom Trefl Sopot (Poland) - 71:67
Le Mans (France) - Climamio Bologna (Italy) - 82:71
Olympiacos (Greece) - Tau Ceramica (Spain) - 97:78
1 Olympiacos - 1game/2 points
2 Le Mans - 1/2
3 Dinamo - 1/2
4 Efes Pilsen - 1/2
5 Prokom - 1/1
6 RheinEnergie - 1/1
7 Climamio - 1/1
8 Tau Ceramica - 1/1
Group B
Benetton Treviso (Italy) - Zalgiris Kaunas (Lithuania) - 95:82
1 Benetton - 1/2
2 CSKA Moscow - 1/2
3 Aris TT Bank (Greece) - 1/2
4 Winterthur FC Barcelona (Spain) - 1/2
5 Pau-Orthez (France) - 1/1
6 Fenerbahce Ulker (Turkey) - 1/1
7 Eldo Basket Naples (Italy) - 1/1
8 Zalgiris - 1/1
* At the $1 million St Petersburg Open ATP tennis tournament in Russia (through October 29):
Singles:
- Igor Kunitsyn advanced to the quarterfinals, beating No.4-seed Tommy Haas (Germany) 7-6, 4-6, 6-2
* At the $600,000 Linz Open WTA tennis tournament in Austria (through October 29):
Singles:
- Top-seed Maria Sharapova advanced to the quarterfinals, beating Eleni Daniilidou (Greece) 7-5, 6-1
- Vera Zvonaryova advanced to the quarterfinals after Mary Pierce (France) retired in the second set due to injury
- No.7-seed Anna Chakvetadze failed to advance to the quarterfinals, losing to Samantha Stosur (Australia) 4-6, 4-6
- Yelena Vesnina lost to No.6-seed Jelena Jankovic 7-6, 4-6, 2-6 in the second round
* SuperLeague hockey results and standings (host teams listed first):
Metallurg Novokuznetsk - Vityaz Podolsk - 0:1
Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk - Amur Khabarovsk - 2:0
Ak Bars Kazan - Krylya Sovietov Moscow - 3:2
1 Ak Bars Kazan - 19 games/45 points/goal difference +38
2 Avangard Omsk - 19/38/+15
3 Sibir Novosibirsk - 18/37/+12
4 Salavat Yulayev Ufa - 18/35/+13
5 Khimik Voskresensk - 19/31/+9
6 HK MVD Tver - 18/29/+3
7 CSKA Moscow - 18/29/+10
8 Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk - 19/28/-3
9 Dinamo Moscow - 18/27/0
10 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl - 18/26/+1
11 Metallurg Magnitogorsk - 18/26/+5
12 Vityaz Podolsk - 19/25/-8
13 Severstal Cherepovets - 18/24/-4
14 SKA St. Petersburg - 18/23/+1
15 Lada Tolyatty - 18/23/-7
16 Traktor Chelyabinsk - 18/20/-17
17 Metallurg Novokuznetsk - 19/18/-14
18 Krylya Sovietov Moscow - 19/11/-29
19 Amur Khabarovsk - 19/10/-24
* Russian women's basketball SuperLeague results and standings (host teams listed first):
Shelen Krasnoyarsk - CSKA Samara - 49:74
Nadezhda Orenburg - Dinamo Kursk - 64:57
1 CSKA Samara - 5 games/10 points
2 Dinamo Kursk - 4/7
3 UGMK Yekaterinburg - 3/5
4 Nadezhda Orenburg - 3/5
5 Shelen Krasnoyarsk - 5/5
6 Vologda-Chevakata Vologda - 2/4
7 Dinamo Moscow - 2/3
8 Spartak Vidnoye - 2/3
9 NUR Kazan - 3/3
10 Dinamo Moscow Region - 1/2
11 Baltiyskaya Zvezda St. Petersburg - 2/2
12 Dinamo-Energia Novosibirsk - 2/2
