* At the 4th FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships in Naples, Italy (through September 3):
- Larisa Ilchenko won gold in the 10km open water swimming women's competition in 2h 19m 49.9s. Her teammate Kseniya Popova took bronze in 2h 19m 59.8s, losing just 0.5s to silver medalist Poliana Okimoto (Brazil).
- Yevgeny Drattsev won bronze in the 10km open water swimming men's competition in 2h 10m 40.7s, finishing just 0.2s behind Valerio Cleri (Italy). Thomas Lurz (Germany) won gold in 2h 10m 39.4s.
* Russia's national basketball team beat Hungary at home in a Group C qualifier for the EuroBasket-2007 in Spain.
Group C results and standings:
Czech Republic - Belgium - 85:67
Russia - Hungary - 82:62
1. Russia - 1 game/2 points
2. Czech Republic - 1/2
3. Belgium - 1/1
4. Hungary - 1/1
* At the $19-million U.S. Open Grand Slam tennis tournament in New York (through September 10):
Men's singles 2nd round:
- Mikhail Yuzhny beat Nicolas Massu (Chile) 5-7, 6-7, 6-4, 6-3, 6-0
Women's singles 2nd round:
- No.3-seed Maria Sharapova beat Emilie Loit (France) 6-0, 6-1
- Yelena Dementyeva (4) beat Emma Laine (Finland) 6-4, 6-0
- Nadezhda Petrova (5) beat Virginia Ruano Pascual (Spain) 6-1, 6-1
- Svetlana Kuznetsova (6) beat Lauren Albanese (U.S.) 6-1, 6-1
- Dinara Safina (12) beat) Yuliana Fedak (Ukraine) 6-3, 6-4
- Maria Kirilenko (20) beat Severine Bremond (France) 6-2, 6-3
- Anna Chakvetadze (23) beat Alona Bondarenko (Ukraine) 7-6, 6-0
- Yelena Likhovtseva (32) beat Nicole Pratt (Australia) 6-3, 6-2
- Vera Zvonaryova (33) lbeat Jill Craybas (U.S.) 6-3, 7-5
- Anastasia Rodionova beat No.29-seed Zheng Jie (China) 7-5, 6-3
- Alina Jidkova lost to No.9-seed Nicole Vaidisova (Czech Republic) 2-6, 6-3, 3-6
- Yekaterina Bychkova lost to No.22-seed Katarina Srebotnik (Slovenia) 2-6, 6-4, 2-6
Women's doubles 1st round:
- Anna Chakvetadze and Yelena Vesnina beat U.S. pair Jamie Hampton and Ashley Weinhold 6-2, 6-2
- No.8-seed pair Dinara Safina and Katarina Srebotnik (Slovenia) beat Jarmila Gajdosova (Slovakia) and Bryanne Stewart (Australia) 7-5, 6-1
- No.10-seed pair Nadezhda Petrova and Martina Navratilova (U.S.) beat U.S. duo Lilia Osterloh and Ahsha Rolle
Mixed doubles 1st round:
- Anastasia Rodionova and Kevin Ullyett (Zimbabwe) beat Catalina Castano (Colombia) and Mariusz Fyrstenberg (Poland) 4-6, 6-1, 10-8 (match tie-break)
- Vera Zvonaryova and Andy Ram (Israel) lost to Anabel Medina Garrigues (Spain) and Sebastian Prieto (Argentina) 5-7, 6-7
* At the European Volleyball Junior Women's Championship in France (through September 3)
- Russia took first place in preliminary Group 2 to take on Croatia in the semifinal September 2.
Results and standings:
Group 2:
Russia - Netherlands - 3:0 (25-23, 25-23, 29-27)
Turkey - Serbia & Montenegro - 3:0 (25-19, 25-16, 25-16)
Poland - Ukraine - 0:3 (17-25, 22-25, 11-25)
1 Russia - 5 games/9 points
2 Ukraine - 5/9
3 Turkey - 5/8
4 Serbia & Montenegro - 5/8
5 Netherlands - 5/6
6 Poland - 5/5
Group 1:
France - Italy - 0:3 (22-25, 19-25, 17-25)
Czech Republic - Croatia - 0:3 (21-25, 23-25, 17-25)
Belarus - Belgium - 0:3 (20-25, 16-25, 24-26)
Belgium - Czech Republic 0:3 (12-25, 20-25, 25-27)
Italy - Belarus - 3:0 (25-8, 25-12, 25-12)
Croatia - France - 3:1 (25-21, 25-18, 23-25, 25-13)
1 Italy - 5/10
2 Croatia - 5/9
3 Belgium - 5/7
4 France - 5/7
5 Czech Republic - 5/6
5 Belarus - 5/6
Semifinal line-ups:
Italy - Ukraine
Russia - Croatia
* At the Ceska Pojistovna Cup in Czech Republic, the first of the four tournaments in the Euro Hockey Tour, an unofficial European championships involving Europe's top four teams.
- Russia beat Sweden 4:3 on penalty shots
Results and standings:
Sweden - Russia - 3:4 (on penalty shots)
Czech Republic - Finland - 2-1 (on penalty shots)
1 Russia - 1 game/2 points
2 Czech Republic - 1/2
3 Sweden - 1/1
4 Finland 1/1
