* At the $31 million Australian Open Grand Slam tournament in Melbourne (through January 28):
Women's singles second round:
- Top-seed Maria Sharapova beat compatriot Anastasia Anastassia Rodionova 6-0, 6-3
- Dinara Safina (9) beat Youlia Fedossova (France) 6-3, 6-2
- Anna Chakvetadze (12) beat Laura Granville (U.S.) 6-2, 5-7, 6-1
- Vera Zvonareva (22) beat Tamira Paszek (Austria) 6-1, 6-3
- Alla Kudryavtseva lost to Martina Hingis (6, Switzerland) 2-6, 2-6
Men's singles second round:
- Nikolai Davydenko (3) beat Gilles Muller (Luxembourg) 6-4, 6-0, 6-3
- Dmitry Tursunov (21) bat Max Mirnyi (Belarus) 6-2, 6-3, 7-6
Women's doubles first round:
- No.5-seed pair Dinara Safina and Katarina Srebotnik (Slovenia) beat Anna Chakvetadze and Mara Santangelo (Italy) 6-2, 6-0
- No.8-seed duo Vera Zvonaryova and Nathalie Dechy (France) beat Olga Puchkova and Varvara Lepchenko (Uzbekistan) 6-1, 7-5
- No.14-seed pair Yelena Dementieva and Flavia Pennetta (Italy) beat Japan's duo Akiko Morigami/Aiko Nakamura 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Galina Voskoboyeva and Ashley Harkleroad (U.S.) beat Milagros Sequera (Venezuela) and Meilen Tu (U.S.) 6-3, 7-5
- Vasilisa Bardina and Alicja Rosolska (Poland) beat Australian pair Casey Dellacqua Jessica Moore 3-6, 6-4, 6-1
- Yekaterina Bychkova and Martina Muller (Germany) beat Yulia Beygelzimer (Ukraine) and Lourdes Dominguez Lino (Spain) 6-2, 6-1
- Vera Dushevina and Maria Kirilenko beat Czech duo Lucie Hradecka and Renata Voracova 6-4, 5-7, 6-4
Men's doubles first round:
- Igor Andreyev and Igor Kunitsyn lost to No.10-seed Austrian duo Julian Knowle/Jurgen Melzer 4-6, 4-6
- Evgeny Korolyov and Mikhail Yuzhny lost to Australian duo Carsten Ball/Adam Feeney 4-6, 4-6
* Russian men's basketball champions CSKA Moscow beat Zalgiris Kaunas (Lithuania) 88:72 in 2006/07 Euroleague's qualifying Group C.
Group C results and standings (host teams listed first):
CSKA Moscow - Zalgiris Kaunas - 88:72
Pau-Orthez (France) - Eldo Basket Napoli (Italy) - 68:72
1 CSKA Moscow - 12 games/23 points
2 Winterthur FCB Barcelona (Spain) - 11/19
3 Benetton Treviso (Italy) - 11/17
4 Pau-Orthez - 12/18
5 Aris TT Bank (Greece) - 11/16
6 Eldo Basket Napoli - 12/17
7 Fenerbahce Ulker (Turkey) - 11/15
8 Zalgiris Kaunas (Lithuania) - 12/13
* Russian women's basketball team Spartak Moscow Region beat USO Mondeville (France) 88:69 in 2006/07 Euroleague's qualifying Group A. CSKA Volgaburmash Samara beat Bourges Basket (France) 74:54 in Group B and UMMC Yekaterinburg lost to USVO Valenciennes Olympic (France) 67:73 in Group C.
Results and final standings (host teams listed first):
Group A
Spartak Moscow Region - USO Mondeville - 88:69
Wisla Can-Pack Krakow (Poland) - TEO Vilnius (Lithuania) - 77:81
Famila Basket Schio (Italy) - MKB Euroleasing Sopron (Hungary) - 68:73
1 Spartak Moscow Region - 10 games/19 points
2 TEO Vilnius - 10/17
3 MKB Euroleasing - 10/16
4 Wisla Can-Pack Krakow (Poland) - 10/15
5 USO Mondeville - 10/13
6 Famila Basket Schio (Italy) - 10/10
Group B
CSKA Volgaburmash - Bourges Basket - 74:54
Halcon Avenida Salamanca (Spain) - MiZo Pecs (Hungary) - 70:65
Dexia Namur (Belgium) - ZVVZ USK Prague (Czech Republic) - 68:54
1 CSKA Volgaburmash - 10/18
2 Bourges Basket - 10/18
3 MiZo Pecs - 10/16
4 Halcon Avenida Salamanca - 10/14
5 Dexia Namur - 10/13
6 ZVVZ USK Prague - 10/11
Group C
UMMC Yekaterinburg - USVO Valenciennes - 67:73
Lotos Gdynia (Poland) - Gambrinus Sika Brno (Czech Republic) - 51:92
Ros Casares Valencia (Spain) - Fenerbahce SK Istanbul (Turkey) - 68:71
1 Fenerbahce SK Istanbul - 10/18
2 Ros Casares Valencia - 10/16
3 Gambrinus Sika Brno - 10/16
4 UMMC Yekaterinburg - 10/16
5 USVO Valenciennes - 10/13
6 Lotos Gdynia - 10/11
* Women's basketball team Nadezhda Orenburg advanced to the 2006/2007 Women's EuroCup tournament's Round of 16, beating Pallacanestro Ribera (Italy) 69:60 at home (+3 on aggregate) in the second leg of the two-leg series.
* Men's volleyball team Dinamo Moscow beat Paris Volley (France) 3:0 in European Champions League's qualifying Group B.
Group B results and standings (host teams listed first):
Dinamo Moscow - Paris Volley - 3:0 (25-18, 25-15, 25-22)
Iraklis Thessaloniki (Greece) - Sisley Treviso (Italy) - 0:3 (21-25, 23-25, 19-25)
Ortec Rotterdam (Netherlands) - Noliko Maaseik (Belgium) - 1:3 (20-25, 25-23, 23-25, 23-25)
1 Dinamo Moscow - 8 games/15 points
2 Noliko Maaseik - 8/14
3 Sisley Treviso - 8/13
4 Iraklis Thessaloniki - 8/11
5 Paris Volley - 8/11
6 Ortec Rotterdam - 8/8
* SuperLeague hockey results and standings (host teams listed first):
Amur Khabarovsk - Metallurg Novokuznetsk - 1:2 (OT)
1 Ak Bars Kazan - 37 games/83 points
2 Avangard Omsk - 38/79
3 Metallurg Magnitogorsk - 38/74
4 Khimik Voskresensk - 38/72
5 Sibir Novosibirsk - 38/70
6 Salavat Yulayev Ufa - 38/67
7 CSKA Moscow - 38/62
8 HK MVD Tver - 37/56
9 Severstal Cherepovets - 38/56
10 Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk - 38/53
11 Lada Togliatti - 38/53
12 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl - 38/51
13 SKA St. Petersburg - 38/46
14 Dinamo Moscow - 38/46
15 Metallurg Novokuznetsk - 38/40
16 Vityaz Podolsk - 38/39
17 Traktor Chelyabinsk - 38/37
18 Amur Khabarovsk - 38/31
19 Krylya Sovietov Moscow - 38/21
