* At the $31 million Australian Open Grand Slam tournament in Melbourne (through January 28):
Women's singles third round:
- No.3-seed Svetlana Kuznetsova beat compatriot Maria Kirilenko (26) 6-1, 6-4
- Yelena Dementieva (7) beat Maria Elena Camerin (Italy) 6-1, 6-3
- Nadezgda Petrova (5) lost to Serena Williams (U.S.) 6-1, 5-7, 3-6
Men's singles third round:
- Mikhail Yuzhny (25) lost to top-seed Roger Federer (Switzerland) 3-6, 3-6, 6-7
- Marat Safin (26) lost to No.6-seed Andy Roddick (U.S.) 6-7, 6-2, 4-6, 6-7
Women's doubles second round:
- No.8-seed duo Vera Zvonaryova and Nathalie Dechy (France) beat Vania King (U.S.) and Jelena Kostanic Tosic (Croatia) 6-7, 6-4, 6-0
- Galina Voskoboyeva and Ashley Harkleroad (U.S.) beat Emilie Loit (France) and Nicole Pratt (Australia) 6-3, 6-1
- Vasilisa Bardina and Alicja Rosolska (Poland) lost to No.2-seed Chinese pair Zi Yan/Jie Zheng 1-6, 1-6
- Ykaterina Bychkova and Martina Muller (Germany) lost to No.10-seed duo Anabel Medina Garrigues (Spain)/ Sania Mirza (India) 3-6, 4-6
- Yelena Bovina and Alla Kudryavtseva lost to China's Shengnan Sun/Tiantian Sun 6-2, 1-6, 3-6
Women's doubles first round:
- No.13-seed pair Yelena Likhovtseva and Yelena Vesnina lost to Francesca Schiavone (Italy) and Patty Schnyder (Switzerland) 6-4, 6-7, 1-6
* Russian men's basketball team Dinamo Moscow beat Le Mans (France) 70:69 away in 2006/07 Euroleague's qualifying Group A.
Group A results and standings (host teams listed first):
Le Mans (France) - Dinamo Moscow - 69:70
Olympiacos Piraeus (Greece) - Efes Pilsen Istanbul (Turkey) - 72:91
Prokom Trefl Sopot (Poland) - RheinEnergie Cologne (Germany) - 72:61
Climamio Bologna (Italy) - Tau Ceramica (Spain) - 90:82
1 Tau Ceramica - 12 games/22 points
2 Olympiacos - 12/21
3 Dinamo Moscow - 12/20
4 Efes Pilsen - 12/19
5 Prokom Trefl Sopot - 12/17
6 Climamio Bologna - 12/16
7 Le Mans - 12/15
8 RheinEnergie Cologne - 12/14
* Women's basketball team Vologda-Chevakata Vologda advanced to the 2006/2007 Women's EuroCup tournament's Round of 16, beating BG Dorsten (Germany) 76:55 at home (+17 on aggregate) in the second leg of the two-leg series.
* Women's basketball team Dinamo Moscow advanced to the 2006/2007 Women's EuroCup tournament's Round of 16, beating Hapoel Tel Aviv (Israel) 80:61 at home (+66 on aggregate) in the second leg of the two-leg series.
* Women's basketball team Dinamo Moscow Region advanced to the 2006/2007 Women's EuroCup tournament's round of 16, beating compatriots Dinamo Kursk 121-116 on aggregate (65:59 at home and 56:57 away)
* SuperLeague hockey results and standings (host teams listed first):
Salavat Yulayev Ufa - Severstal Cherepovets - 4:2
CSKA Moscow - HK MVD Tver - 0:3
Khimik Voskresensk - Lada Togliatti - 3:0
Sibir Novosibirsk - Lokomotiv Yaroslavl - 1:4
Avangard Omsk - Dinamo Moscow - 3:2
Ak Bars Kazan - Vityaz Podolsk - 4:0
Metallurg Magnitogorsk - SKA St. Petersburg - 5:1
Krylya Sovietov Moscow - Traktor Chelyabinsk - 2:2
1 Ak Bars Kazan - 38 games/86 points
2 Avangard Omsk - 39/82
3 Metallurg Magnitogorsk - 39/77
4 Khimik Voskresensk - 39/75
5 Salavat Yulayev Ufa - 39/70
6 Sibir Novosibirsk - 39/70
7 CSKA Moscow - 39/62
8 HK MVD Tver - 38/59
9 Severstal Cherepovets - 39/56
10 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl - 39/54
11 Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk - 38/53
12 Lada Togliatti - 39/53
13 SKA St. Petersburg - 39/46
14 Dinamo Moscow - 39/46
15 Metallurg Novokuznetsk - 38/40
16 Vityaz Podolsk - 39/39
17 Traktor Chelyabinsk - 39/38
18 Amur Khabarovsk - 38/31
19 Krylya Sovietov Moscow - 39/22
