* At the World Volleyball Women's Championship in Japan (through November 16):
Russia took second place in qualifying Group F to take on Italy in the semifinals November 15
Group F results and final standings:
Russia - Brazil - 1:3 (29-27, 14-25, 25-27, 22-25)
Germany - United States - 2:3 (27-25, 23-25, 25-19, 24-26, 11-15)
China - Netherlands - 2:3 (25-21, 25-17, 23-25, 22-25, 12-15)
Azerbaijan - Puerto Rico - 3:0 (25-21, 25-18, 25-18)
1 Brazil - 7 games/14 points
2 Russia - 7/13
3 Netherlands - 7/11
4 China - 7/10
5 Germany - 7/10
6 United States - 7/10
7 Azerbaijan - 7/9
8 Puerto Rico - 7/7
* At the $3 million Sony Ericsson WTA Championships, involving the season's top women's tennis players, in Madrid, Spain (ended November 12):
- No.2-seed Maria Sharapova failed to advance to the final, losing to No.3-seed Justine Henin-Hardenne (Belgium) 2-6, 6-7. Henin-Hardenne won the title, beating top-seed Amelie Mauresmo (France) 6-4, 6-3 in the final
* Russia's national hockey men's team won the title 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 teams:
Karjala Cup results and final standings:
Finland - Russia - 2:3
Czech Republic - Sweden - 5:4
Russia - Sweden - 5:4
Finland - Czech Republic - 2:1
Czech Republic - Russia - 2:3 (OT, penalty shots)
Finland - Sweden - 0:1
1 Russia - 3 games/8 points
2 Czech Republic - 3/4
3 Sweden - 3/3
4 Finland - 3/3
Euro Hockey Tour standings (after two tournaments in the Czech Republic and Finland):
1 Russia - 6/16
2 Czech Republic - 6/7
3 Finland - 6/7
4 Sweden - 6/6
* Men's handball team Chekhovskiye Medvedy Chekhov advanced to the 16th round, beating SG Flensburg-Handewitt (Germany) 33:27 at home in European Champions League's qualifying Group D
Group D results and final standings:
Chehovskiye Medvedy - SG Flensburg-Handewitt - 33:27
RK Zagreb (Croatia) - RK Metalurg Skopje (Macedonia) - 32:24
1 SG Flensburg-Handewitt - 6 games/10 points
2 Chekhovskiye Medvedy - 6/8
3 RK Zagreb - 6/6
4 RK Metalurg Skopje - 6/0
* Premier League soccer results and standings (host teams listed first):
Luch-Energia Vladivostok - Rubin Kazan - 2:1
1 CSKA Moscow - 28 games/55 points/ goal difference +16
2 Spartak Moscow - 28/52/+22
3 Lokomotiv Moscow - 28/47/+10
4 Zenit St. Petersburg - 28/46/+11
5 Luch-Energia Vladivostok - 28/40/+2
6 Rubin Kazan - 28/40/+4
7 FC Moscow - 28/40/+4
8 Krylya Sovietov Samara - 28/38/+4
9 Tom Tomsk - 28/37/+1
10 Spartak Nalchik - 28/37/0
11 Saturn Ramenskoye - 28/37/+7
12 FC Rostov - 28/36/-4
13 Amkar Perm - 28/35/-11
14 Dinamo Moscow - 28/28/-11
15 Torpedo Moscow - 26/21/-17
16 Shinnik Yaroslavl - 28/10/-38
* SuperLeague mini-football results and standings (host teams listed first):
Dyna Moscow - Politekh St. Petersburg - 3:3, 4:1
Spartak Moscow - Spartak Shchelkovo - 2:4, 5:9
Norilsky Nickel Norilsk - MFC Lipetsk - 5:1, 6:5
CSKA Moscow - VIZ-Sinara Yekaterinburg - 1:2, 1:2
TTG-Yava Yugorsk - Dinamo Moscow - 1:5, 1:5
MFC Tyumen - MFC Mytishchi - 6:4, 3:0
1 VIZ-Sinara - 14 games/33 points/goal difference +25
2 Dinamo Moscow - 14/230/+19
3 Spartak Shchelkovo - 14/27/+13
4 Dyna Moscow - 14/26/+13
5 TTG-Yava - 14/26/+1
6 CSKA Moscow - 14/24/+12
7 Norilsky Nickel Norilsk - 14/22/+13
8 Spartak Moscow - 14/19/+5
9 MFC Tyumen - 14/19/-6
10 MFC Lipetsk - 14/4/-30
11 MFC Mytishchi - 14/3/-26
12 Politekh St. Petersburg - 14/3/-37
