* At the $3 million Sony Ericsson WTA Championships, involving the season's top women's tennis players, in Madrid, Spain (through November 12):
- No.5-seed Nadezhda Petrova lost to No.3-seed Justine Henin-Hardenne (Belgium) 4-6, 4-6
- Svetlana Kuznetsova (4) lost to Kim Clijsters (6, Belgium) 1-6, 1-6
Qualifying group results and standings:
Yellow Group
Amelie Mauresmo (1, France) - Martina Hingis (Switzerland) - 3-6, 6-1, 6-4
Justine Henin-Hardenne - Nadezhda Petrova - 6-4, 6-4
1 Justine Henin-Hardenne (3) - matches played-2/wins-2/losses-0
2 Amelie Mauresmo (1) - 2/1/1
3 Martina Hingis (8) - 3/1/2
4 Nadezhda Petrova (5) - 3/1/2
Red Group
Kim Clijsters - Svetlana Kuznetsova - 6-1, 6-1
1 Maria Sharapova (2) - 2/2/0
2 Kim Clijsters (6) - 2/1/1
3 Svetlana Kuznetsova (4) - 2/1/1
4 Yelena Dementyeva (7) - 2/0/2
* At the Karjala Cup in Finland, the second of four tournaments in the Euro Hockey Tour, an unofficial European championships involving Europe's top four men's teams:
- Russia beat Finland 3:2
Karjala Cup results and standings:
Finland - Russia - 2:3
Czech Republic - Sweden - 5:4
1 Czech Republic - 1 game/3 points/ goal difference +1
2 Russia - 1/3/+1
3 Sweden - 1/0/-1
4 Finland - 1/0/-1
Euro Hockey Tour standings:
1 Russia - 4/11/+4
2 Czech Republic - 4/5/-1
3 Sweden - 4/4/-1
4 Finland - 4/4/-2
* Russian men's basketball team Dinamo Moscow beat Climamio Bologna (Italy) 78:73 at home in 2006/07 Euroleague's qualifying Group A.
Group A results and standings (host teams listed first):
Dinamo - Climamio - 78:73
Efes Pilsen Istanbul (Turkey) - Le Mans (France) - 53:64
Olympiacos Piraeus (Greece) - Prokom Trefl Sopot (Poland) - 97:74
RheinEnergie Cologne (Germany) - Tau Ceramica (Spain) - 70:102
Aris TT Bank (Greece)
Tau Ceramica (Spain)
1 Olympiacos - 3 games/6 points
2 Tau Ceramica - 3/5
3 Le Mans (France) - 3/5
4 Efes Pilsen - 3/5
5 Dinamo - 3/5
6 Prokom - 3/4
7 Climamio - 3/3
8 RheinEnergie - 3/3
* Basketball team Dinamo Moscow Region trounced K.V. Imperial AEL Limassol (Cyprus) 103:44 in 2006/2007 Women's EuroCup tournament's qualifying Group A. Chevakata Vologda beat ZKK Medvescak Zagreb (Croatia) 90:54 in Group K. Nadezhda Orenburg beat Gospic (Croatia) 68:59 in Group L
Results and standings (host teams listed first):
Group A
Dinamo - K.V. Imperial AEL - 103:44
KK Hemofarm Vrsac (Serbia) - Anda Ramat Hasharon (Israel) - 74:54
1 Dinamo Moscow Region - 1/2
2 KK Hemofarm Vrsac - 1/2
3 Anda Ramat Hasharon - 1/1
4 K.V. Imperial AEL- 1/1
Group K
Chevakata - ZKK Medvescak - 90:54
Szeviep Szeged (Hungary) - ZKK Merkur Celje (Slovenia) - 82:44
1 Szeviep Szeged - 1/2
2 Chevakata - 1/2
3 ZKK Medvescak Zagreb - 1/1
4 ZKK Merkur Celje - 1/1
Group L
Nadezhda - Gospic - 68:59
TTT Riga (Latvia) - MBK Ruzomberok (Slovakia) - 44:101
1 MBK Ruzomberok - 1/2
2 Nadezhda - 1/2
3 Gospic - 1/1
4 TTT Riga - 1/1
* Russian men's basketball SuperLeague results and standings (host teams listed first):
Standard Samara Region - Sibirtelekom-Lokomotiv Novosibirsk - 82:73
1 CSKA Moscow - 5 games/10 points
2 UNICS Kazan - 4/8
3 Dinamo Moscow - 5/9
4 Khimky Moscow Region - 4/7
5 Spartak-Primorye - 3/5
6 Lokomotiv-Rostov Rostov-on-Don - 5/8
7 Dinamo Moscow Region - 5/8
8 Ural-Great Perm - 4/6
9 CSK VVS Samara - 6/8
10 Spartak St. Petersburg - 4/5
11 Universitet-Ugra Surgut - 6/7
12 Standard Samara Region - 6/7
13 Sibirtelekom-Lokomotiv Novosibirsk - 5/5
