* At the 2005/2006 men's under-18 world ice hockey championships in Sweden (through April 22)
- Russia beat Germany 9:5 in its third game in preliminary Group A
Group A results and standings:
Belarus - Czech Republic - 2:5
Germany - Russia - 5:9
United States - Czech Republic - 5:0
Belarus - Germany - 1:5
1 U.S. - games - 3/points - 6/goal difference 18-2/
2 Russia - 3/4/19-9
3 Czech Republic - 3/4/9-9
4 Germany - 4/2/12-23
5 Belarus - 3/0/3-18
Group B results and standings:
Finland - Sweden - 4:3
Norway - Slovakia - 2:5
Canada - Sweden - 0:2
Finland - Norway - 2:1
1 Finland - 3/6/12-7
2 Canada - 3/4/12-5
3 Sweden - 3/4/10-6/
4 Slovakia - 3/2/9-11/
5 Norway - 4/0/7-21
* Nadezhda Petrova won her second WTA title in two weeks on Sunday, beating third-seeded Patty Schnyder of Switzerland in the final of the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, South Carolina 6:3, 4:6, 6:1.
Last weekend, Petrova won the WTA tournament in Amelia Island, Florida, defeating Francesca Schiavone of Italy in the final 6:4, 6:4.
* Marat Safin failed to advance to the finals of the men's singles at the IV Open de Tenis Comunidad Valenciana ATP tennis tournament in Valencia, Spain, losing to Nicolas Almagro of Spain 2:6, 6:2, 4:6. Almagro, who advanced to the main draw through qualification phase, won his first title Sunday by defeating Gilles Simon of France 6:2, 6:3 in the final
* Nikolai Davydenko remains world No. 6 in the new ATP rankings. Four other Russians are ranked in the top 50: Igor Andreyev (28), Dmitry Tursunov (33), Mikhail Yuzhny (38), and Marat Safin (49)
* Maria Sharapova rose one place to No. 3 in the new WTA rankings. Nadezhda Petrova climbed two places to No. 5. Two other Russians are ranked in the top 10: Yelena Dementyeva (9) and Svetlana Kuznetsova (10)
* Cyclist Olga Slyusareva won silver in the women's 25-km points race and the bronze in the 10-km scratch at the 2006 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Bordeaux, France.
* Ak Bars Kazan won the Russian hockey championship title, defeating Avangard Omsk 3:1 away in the third game of the best-of-five SuperLeague finals.
Final series results (host teams listed first):
Ak Bars - Avangard - 6:1 (April 12)
Ak Bars - Avangard - 2:0 (April 14)
Avangard - Ak Bars - 1:3 (April 16)
* Soccer Premier League Week 5 results (host teams listed first):
Zenit St. Petersburg - Luch-Energia Vladivostok - 3:1
Lokomotiv Moscow - CSKA Moscow - 3:2
Tom Tomsk - Saturn Ramenskoye - 0:0
Rubin Kazan - Spartak Moscow - 2:0
FC Moscow - Spartak Nalchik - 1:1
Torpedo Moscow - Krylya Sovietov Samara - 1:1
Shinnik Yaroslavl - Amkar Perm - 0:0
Dinamo Moscow - FC Rostov - (April 17)
Team standings after Week 5:
1 CSKA Moscow - 10 points/goal difference 11-5
2 Rubin Kazan - 10/6-4
3 Tom Tomsk - 10 /4-3
4 FC Moscow - 10/5-6
5 Spartak Nalchik - 8/9-7
6 Krylya Sovietov Samara - 8/5-4
7 Zenit St. Petersburg - 7/9-6 (after 4 games)
8 Saturn Ramenskoye - 7/5-2
9 Spartak Moscow - 6/6-7
10 Amkar Perm - 5/4-6
11 FC Rostov - 4/6-3 (after 3 games)
12 Lokomotiv Moscow - 4/7-9
13 Torpedo Moscow - 4/3-4
14 Dinamo Moscow - 2/4-6 (after 4 games)
15 Luch-Energia Vladivostok - 2/4-8
16 Shinnik Yaroslavl - 2/2-10
* The winner of the women's basketball regular season, VBM SGAU Samara, beat Spartak Moscow Region (seeded 4 in post-season) 68:57 at home in the first leg of the SuperLeague championship's best-of-three semifinal tie. UGMK Yekaterinburg (2) beat Dinamo Moscow (3) 95:75 at home.
Semifinal results and standings:
VBM SGAU Samara (1) - Spartak Moscow Region (4) - 68:57 (VBM SGAU leads 1-0)
UGMK Yekaterinburg (2) - Dinamo Moscow (3) - 95:75 (UGMK leads 1-0)
The remaining legs are set for April 19 and April 22 (if necessary)
