* At the $1.34-mln Internazionali d'Italia WTA tennis tournament in Rome, Italy (ended May 21):
- Dinara Safina, seeded No. 16 for the tournament, failed to win the title, losing to Martina Hingis of Switzerland in the singles final 2-6, 5-7
- Maria Kirilenko and Gisela Dulko (Argentina) lost to fifth-seeded duo Anabel Medina Garrigues (Spain) and Katarina Srebotnik (Slovenia) in the quarterfinals
Semifinals and finals results:
Singles - semifinals:
Safina (16) beat Svetlana Kuznetsova (7, Russia) 3-6, 6-4, 7-5
Hingis beat Venus Williams (9, U.S.) 0-6, 6-3, 6-3
Singles - final
Hingis beat Safina 6-2, 7-5
* At the $2.67-mln ATP Masters Series tennis tournament in Hamburg, Germany (ended May 21):
- No.4 seed Nikolai Davydenko lost to Mario Ancic (12, Croatia) in the quarterfinals 7-5, 6-7, 3-6
* At the M-Tel Masters chess tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria, ended May 21:
- GM Pyotr Svidler, No. 4 in the FIDE rankings, took fourth place with three draws in the last three rounds. World Champion Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria won the title, taking a maximum three points from the three last games.
Results and final standings:
Round 8:
Veselin Topalov (1, Bulgaria) - Ruslan Ponomariov (6, Ukraine) - 1:0
Pyotr Svidler (4, Russia) - Etienne Bacrot (15, France) - 0.5:0.5
Gata Kamsky (33, U.S.) - Viswanathan Anand (2, India) - 0.5:0.5
Round 9:
Kamsky - Topalov - 0:1
Anand - Svidler - 0.5:0.5
Bacrot - Ponomariov - 0.5:0.5
Round 10:
Topalov - Bacrot - 1:0
Ponomariov - Anand - 0.5:0.5
Svidler - Kamsky - 0.5:0.5
1 Topalov - 6.5 points
2 Kamsky - 6
3 Anand - 5.5
4 Svidler - 5
5 Ponomariov - 3.5
6 Bacrot - 3.5
* Holders CSKA Moscow won the Russian Cup 2005/2006 soccer competition, defeating
Spartak Moscow 3:0 in the final
* Mini-football champion Dinamo Moscow retained its national title. VIZ-Sinara Yekaterinburg took silver, and Spartak Shchelkovo finished third.
Round 22 results and final standings:
Dyna Moscow - Arbat Moscow - 1:0, 3:2
VIZ-Sinara Yekaterinburg - TTG-Yava Yugorsk - 7:3, 7:1
Spartak Moscow - Dinamo Moscow - 2:5, 4:1
CSKA Moscow - Spartak Shchelkovo - 1:3, 6:4
MFC Tyumen - Norilsky Nickel Norilsk - 3:6, 2:3
1 Dinamo Moscow - 83 points
2 VIZ-Sinara Yekaterinburg - 75
3 Spartak Shchelkovo - 65
4 Norilsky Nickel Norilsk - 64
5 Spartak Moscow - 55
6 CSKA Moscow - 44
7 TTG-Yava Yugorsk -40
8 Dyna Moscow - 37
9 Arbat Moscow - 31
10 MFC Tyumen - 15
