* At the World Volleyball Women's Championship in Japan (through November 16):
Russia beat the Netherlands 3:0 in qualifying Group F
Group F results and standings:
Russia - Netherlands - 3:0 (25-17, 25-18, 25:16)
Germany - Puerto Rico - 3:0 (25-23, 25-22, 25-22)
China - Brazil - 2:3 (26-24, 25-20, 21-25, 16-25, 17-19)
Azerbaijan - United States - 3:2 (25-19, 16-25, 25-22, 25-27, 15-13)
1 Russia - 5 games/10 points
2 Brazil - 5/10
3 Germany - 5/8
4 United States - 5/7
5 China - 5/7
6 Netherlands - 5/7
7 Azerbaijan - 5/6
8 Puerto Rico - 5/5
* At the $3 million Sony Ericsson WTA Championships, involving season's top women's tennis players, in Madrid, Spain (through November 12):
- No.5-seed Nadezhda Petrova lost to No.8-seed Martina Hingis (Switzerland) 4-6, 6-3, 3-6
- Maria Sharapova (2) beat Kim Clijsters (6, Belgium) 6-4, 6-4
- Svetlana Kuznetsova (4) beat compatriot Yelena Dementyeva (7) 7-5, 6-3
Qualifying group results and standings:
Yellow Group
1 Justine Henin-Hardenne (3) - matches played-1/wins-1/losses-0
2 Martina Hingis - 2/1/1
3 Nadezhda Petrova - 2/1/1
4 Amelie Mauresmo (1) - 1/0/1
Red Group
1 Maria Sharapova - 2/2/0
2 Svetlana Kuznetsova - 1/1/0
3 Kim Clijsters (6, Belgium) - 1/0/1
4 Yelena Dementyeva - 2/0/2
* Russian men's basketball champions CSKA Moscow lost to Pau-Orthez (France) 67:73 away in 2006/07 Euroleague's qualifying Group C
Group C results and standings (host teams listed first):
Pau-Orthez (France) - CSKA Moscow - 73:67
Eldo Basket Napoli (Italy) - Aris TT Bank (Greece) - 71:69
Benetton Treviso (Italy) - Fenerbahce Ulker (Turkey) - 93:83
1 Winterthur FC Barcelona (Spain) - 2games/4 points
2 CSKA - 3/5
3 Benetton -3/5
4 Pau-Orthez - 3/5
5 Zalgiris Kaunas (Lithuania) - 2/3
6 Aris - 3/4
7 Eldo Basket - 3/4
8 Fenerbahce - 3/3
* Basketball team Ural Great Perm beat PBC CSKA Sofia (Bulgaria) 86:78 away in 2006/2007 EuroCup tournament's qualifying Group G.
Group G results and standings (host teams listed first):
CSKA Sofia - Ural Great Perm - 78:86
Panionios BC Athens (Greece) - Turk Telekom Ankara (Tuekey) 84:76
1 Panionios - 1/2
2 Ural Great - 1/2
3 CSKA Sofia - 1/1
4 Turk Telekom - 1/1
* Russian women's basketball team Spartak Moscow Region beat Wisla Can-Pack (Poland) 72:58 away in 2006/07 Euroleague's qualifying Group A.
Group A results and standings (host teams listed first):
Wisla Can-Pack Krakow - Spartak Moscow Region - 58:72
TEO Vilnius (Lithuania) - Famila Basket Schio (Italy) - 71:65
USO Mondeville (France) - MKB Euroleasing Sopron (Hungary) - 56:69
1 MKB Euroleasing - 2/4
2 Spartak - 2/4
3 USO Mondeville - 2/3
4 TEO Vilnius - 2/3
5 Famila Basket - 2/2
6 Wisla Can-Pack - 2/2
* Premier League soccer results and standings (host teams listed first):
FC Rostov - Luch-Energia Vladivostok - 1:0
Tom Tomsk - Lokomotiv Moscow - 3:1
Amkar Perm - Spartak Nalchik - 1:0
Krylya Sovietov Samara - CSKA Moscow - 2:0
Shinnik Yaroslavl - Rubin Kazan - 1:5
Torpedo Moscow - Zenit St. Petersburg - 1:2
Dinamo Moscow - FC Moscow - 1:1
Saturn Ramenskoye - Spartak Moscow - 1:1
1 CSKA Moscow - 28 games/55 points/ goal difference +16
2 Spartak Moscow - 28/52/+22
3 Lokomotiv Moscow - 28/47/+10
4 Zenit St. Petersburg - 28/46/+11
5 Rubin Kazan - 27/40/+5
6 FC Moscow - 28/40/+4
7 Krylya Sovietov Samara - 28/38/+4
8 Luch-Energia Vladivostok - 27/37/+1
9 Tom Tomsk - 28/37/+1
10 Spartak Nalchik - 28/37/0
11 Saturn Ramenskoye - 28/37/+7
12 FC Rostov - 28/36/-4
13 Amkar Perm - 28/35/-11
14 Dinamo Moscow - 28/28/-11
15 Torpedo Moscow - 26/21/-17
16 Shinnik Yaroslavl - 28/10/-38
