* At the 2006 IIHF world hockey championship that started May 5 in Latvia (through May 21):
Russia will play the Czech Republic in the quarterfinals May 18. The winner will take on the winner of the quarterfinal between Finland and Belarus in the semifinals May 20.
May 17 quarterfinal results:
Sweden - U.S. - 6:0
Canada - Slovakia - 4:1
Sweden will play Canada in the semifinals May 20.
* At the $1.34-mln Internazionali d'Italia WTA tennis tournament in Rome, Italy (through May 21)
Singles:
- Yelena Dementieva, seeded No. 5 for the tournament, advanced to the quarterfinals by defeating eleventh-seeded Anna-Lena Groenefeld 7-6, 3-6, 6-1
- Anastasia Myskina (10) advanced to the third round by defeating Roberta Vinci (Italy) 6-0, 1-6, 6-4
- Dinara Safina (16) advanced to the third round by defeating Maria Elena Camerin (Italy) 6-4, 6-4
- Vera Zvonaryova failed to advance to the quarterfinals, losing to Romina Oprandi (Italy) 0-6, 1-6
- Vera Dushevina failed to advance to the third round, losing to sixth-seeded Patty Schnyder (Switzerland) 6-7, 2-6
- Yekateryna Bychkova lost to Katarina Srebotnik (Slovenia) 6-3, 3-6, 2-6 in the second round
Doubles:
- Dinara Safina and Roberta Vinci (Italy) advanced to the quarterfinals, beating third-seeded duo Liezel Huber (South Africa) and Martina Navratilova (U.S.) 6-3, 6-7, 7-6
* At the M-Tel Masters chess tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria (through May 21):
- GM Pyotr Svidler, No. 4 in the FIDE rankings, beat defending world champion Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria) in Round 6.
Results and standings after Round 6:
Round 6 (players listed first play White):
Veselin Topalov (1, Bulgaria) - Pyotr Svidler (4, Russia) - 0:1
Gata Kamsky (33, U.S.) - Ruslan Ponomariov (6, Ukraine) - 1:0
Viswanathan Anand (2, India) - Etienne Bacrot (15, France) - 0.5:0.5
1 Kamsky - 4.5 points
2 Anand - 4
3 Svidler - 3.5
4 Topalov - 2.5
5 Bacrot - 2
6 Ponomariov - 1.5
* Russian men's basketball SuperLeague best-of-five semifinals, third leg results (host teams listed first):
UNICS Kazan - CSKA Moscow - 52:77 (CSKA leads in the series 2-1)
Khimky Moscow Region - Dinamo St. Petersburg - 77-73 (Khimky leads in the series 2-1)
* Premier League soccer results:
Zenit St. Petersburg drew 1:1 with FC Rostov in a delayed match from Week 3.
Team standings after Week 9:
1 CSKA Moscow - 19 points/ goal difference +9
2 Rubin Kazan - 17 points/ +4
3 Tom Tomsk - 17 /+3
4 Spartak Nalchik - 15/+2
5 Krylya Sovietov Samara - 15/+2
6 Lokomotiv Moscow - 14/+4
7 Spartak Moscow - 14/+4
8 Saturn Ramenskoye - 12/+4
9 Zenit St. Petersburg - 12/-1
10 FC Moscow - 11/-5
11 Amkar Perm - 10/-3
12 FC Rostov - 9/-1
13 Luch-Energia Vladivostok - 8/-3
14 Torpedo Moscow - 7/-6
15 Dinamo Moscow - 6/-4
16 Shinnik Yaroslavl - 6/-9
