* At the World Handball Men's Championship in Germany (through February 4):
Russia beat Morocco 35:19 in preliminary Group F
Group F results and standings:
Russia - Morocco - 35:19
South Korea - Croatia - 23:41
Russia - South Korea - 32:32
Croatia - Morocco - 35:22
1 Croatia - 2 games/4 points/goal difference +31
2 Russia - 2/3/+16
3 South Korea - 2/1/-18
4 Morocco - 2/0/-29
* At the Australian Open Grand Slam tournament in Melbourne (through January 28):
Women's singles:
- Top-seed Maria Sharapova advanced to the quarterfinals, beating compatriot Vera Zvonaryova (22) 7-5, 6-4
- No.12-seed Anna Chakvetadze advanced to the quarterfinals, beating Patty Schnyder (8, Switzerland) 6-4, 6-1
Men's singles:
- No.3-seed Nikolai Davydenko advanced to the quarterfinals, beating Tomas Berdych (13, Czech Republic) 5-7, 6-4, 6-1, 7-6
Women's doubles third round:
- No.5-seed pair Dinara Safina and Katarina Srebotnik (Slovenia) lost to
Taiwan's duo Yung-Jan Chan and Chia-Jung Chuang 7-5, 2-6, 4-6
Women's doubles second round:
- No.14-seed duo Yelena Dementieva and Flavia Pennetta (Italy) beat Tsvetana Pironkova (Bulgaria) and Martina Sucha (Slovakia) 6-1, 6-0
- Vera Dushevina and Maria Kirilenko beat compatriot Svetlana Kuznetsova and Martina Hingis (Switzerland) 6-2, 6-3
Mixed doubles first round:
- Maria Kirilenko and Igor Andreyev beat Janette Husarova (Slovakia) and Pavel Vizner (Czech Republic) 6-1, 6-3
- Yelena Likhovtseva and Daniel Nestor (Canada) beat No.8-seed duo Meghann Shaughnessy (U.S.) and Martin Damm (Czech Republic) 6-4, 3-6, 10-7 (Match TB)
* SuperLeague hockey results and standings (host teams listed first):
Dinamo Moscow - Ak Bars Kazan - 2:2
Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk - CSKA Moscow - 1:3
SKA St. Petersburg - Avangard Omsk - 2:1
Severstal Cherepovets - Sibir Novosibirsk - 3:0
Vityaz Podolsk - Krylya Sovietov Moscow - 4:1
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl - Khimik Voskresensk - 4:2
Lada Togliatti - Metallurg Magnitogorsk - 1:1
HK MVD Tver - Salavat Yulayev Ufa - 1:4
Traktor Chelyabinsk - Amur Khabarovsk - 2:2
1 Ak Bars Kazan - 39 games/87 points
2 Avangard Omsk - 40/82
3 Metallurg Magnitogorsk - 40/78
4 Khimik Voskresensk - 40/75
5 Salavat Yulayev Ufa - 40/73
6 Sibir Novosibirsk - 40/70
7 CSKA Moscow - 40/65
8 HK MVD Tver - 39/59
9 Severstal Cherepovets - 40/59
10 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl - 40/57
11 Lada Togliatti - 40/54
12 Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk - 39/53
13 SKA St. Petersburg - 40/49
14 Dinamo Moscow - 40/47
15 Vityaz Podolsk - 40/42
16 Metallurg Novokuznetsk - 38/40
17 Traktor Chelyabinsk - 40/39
18 Amur Khabarovsk - 39/32
19 Krylya Sovietov Moscow - 40/22
* Russian men's basketball SuperLeague results and standings (host teams listed first):
CSKA Moscow - UNICS Kazan - 94:75
Dinamo Moscow - Standard Samara Region - 89:52
1 CSKA Moscow - 13 games/25 points
2 UNICS Kazan - 13/24
3 Dinamo Moscow - 13/23
4 Lokomotiv-Rostov Rostov-on-Don - 13/22
5 Khimky Moscow Region - 12/20
6 Dinamo Moscow Region - 13/21
7 Spartak-Primorye Vladivostok - 12/19
8 Spartak St. Petersburg - 12/17
9 CSK VVS Samara - 13/17
10 Universitet-Ugra Surgut - 13/16
11 Ural-Great Perm - 13/16
12 Sibirtelekom-Lokomotiv Novosibirsk - 13/15
13 Standard Samara Region - 13/14
* Russian women's basketball SuperLeague standings (host teams listed first):
1 CSKA Samara - 11 games/22 points
2 Dinamo Moscow - 11/19
3 Spartak Moscow Region - 11/19
4 Nadezhda Orenburg - 11/19
5 Vologda-Chevakata Vologda - 11/18
6 UMMC Yekaterinburg - 10/16
7 Dinamo Kursk - 11/17
8 Dinamo Moscow Region - 11/15
9 Dinamo-Energia Novosibirsk - 11/15
10 NUR Kazan - 10/11
11 Baltiyskaya Zvezda St. Petersburg - 11/12
12 Shelen Krasnoyarsk - 11/12
* SuperLeague mini-football results and standings (host teams listed first):
Dyna Moscow - Spartak Moscow - 6:2, 3:2
Norilsky Nickel Norilsk - MFC Tyumen - 3:6, 4:4
TTG-Yava Yugorsk - CSKA Moscow - 1:1, 2:1
Politekh St. Petersburg - VIZ-Sinara Yekaterinburg - 4:4, 0:6
MFC Mytishchi - Spartak Shchelkovo - 1:6, 1:3
MFC Lipetsk - Dinamo Moscow - 2:7, 4:5
1 VIZ-Sinara - 24 games/54 points
2 Dinamo Moscow - 22/51
3 Spartak Shchelkovo - 24/47
4 TTG-Yava Yugorsk - 24/46
5 Dyna Moscow - 24/42
6 CSKA Moscow - 24/36
7 Spartak Moscow - 24/31
8 Norilsky Nickel Norilsk - 24/31
9 MFC Tyumen - 22/30
10 MFC Lipetsk - 24/10
11 MFC Mytishchi - 24/10
12 Politekh St. Petersburg - 24/9
