* At the $31-million Australian Open Grand Slam tournament in Melbourne (through January 28):
Women's singles first round:
- Top-seed Maria Sharapova beat Camille Pin (France) 6-3, 4-6, 9-7
- Anna Chakvetadze (12) beat Sybille Bammer (Austria) 6-4, 7-5
- Anastassia Rodionova beat Roberta Vinci (Italy) 6-3, 6-1
- Alla Kudryavtseva beat Emma Laine (Finland) 4-6, 6-2, 9-7
- Vasilisa Bardina lost to No.4-seed Kim Clijsters (Belgium) 0-6, 0-6
Men's singles first round:
- Nikolai Davydenko (3) beat Sergio Roitman (Argentina) 6-2, 7-5, 6-2
- Dmitry Tursunov (21) beat Alexander Waske (Germany) 5-7, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4
- Yevgeny Korolyov lost to Fernando Gonzalez (10, Chile) 7-6, 6-7, 3-6, 2-6
* Russian women's basketball SuperLeague results and standings (host teams listed first):
CSKA Samara - Baltiyskaya Zvezda St. Petersburg - 82:58
Dinamo-Energia Novosibirsk - NUR Kazan - 74:64
1 CSKA Samara - 11/22
2 Dinamo Moscow - 11/19
3 Nadezhda Orenburg - 11/19
4 Spartak Moscow Region - 11/19
5 Vologda-Chevakata Vologda - 11/18
6 UMMC Yekaterinburg - 10/16
7 Dinamo Kursk - 11/17
8 Dinamo Moscow Region - 11/15
9 Dinamo-Energia Novosibirsk - 11/15
10 NUR Kazan - 10/11
11 Baltiyskaya Zvezda St. Petersburg - 11/12
12 Shelen Krasnoyarsk - 11/12
* SuperLeague mini-football results and standings (host teams listed first):
MFC Mytishchi - VIZ-Sinara Yekaterinburg - 1:3
1 VIZ-Sinara - 22 games/50 points
2 Dinamo Moscow - 20/45
3 TTG-Yava Yugorsk - 22/42
4 Spartak Shchelkovo - 22/41
5 Dyna Moscow - 22/36
6 CSKA Moscow - 22/35
7 Spartak Moscow - 22/31
8 Norilsky Nickel Norilsk - 22/30
9 MFC Tyumen - 20/26
10 MFC Lipetsk - 22/10
11 MFC Mytishchi - 22/9
12 Politekh St. Petersburg - 22/9
* Russian men's bandy Superleague results and standings (host teams listed first):
Western Division:
AMNGR Murmansk - Stroyitel Syktyvkar - 5:4
Vodnik Arkhangelsk - Rodina Kirov - 8:9
Raketa Kazan - Zorky Krasnogorsk - 2:7
1 Dinamo Moscow - 15 games/42 points
2 Zorky Krasnogorsk - 16/41
3 Rodina Kirov - 17/36
4 Uralsky Trubnik Pervouralsk - 15/30
5 Raketa Kazan - 14/27
6 Volga Ulyanovsk - 12/16
7 Vodnik Arkhangelsk - 14/16
8 AMNGR Murmansk - 17/13
9 Start Nizhny Novgorod - 14/8
10 Stroyitel Syktyvkar - 15/6
11 Lokomotiv Orenburg - 15/5
Eastern Division:
Metallurg Bratsk - Baikal-Energia Irkutsk - 4:7
1 Kuzbass Kemerovo - 16/45
2 Baikal-Energia Irkutsk - 14/31
3 Yenisei Krasnoyarsk - 15/28
4 SKA-Neftyannik Khabarovsk - 13/26
5 Sibselmash Novosibirsk - 16/24
6 SKA-Zabaikalets Chita - 13/19
7 Mayak Krasnoturyinsk - 14/16
8 Metallurg Bratsk - 13/15
9 Lesokhimik Ust-Ilimsk - 14/12
10 Sayany Abakan - 15/8
11 SKA-Sverdlovsk Yekaterinburg - 13/3
