Sports Weekend with Izvestia

Hockey

KHL regular season. "Lokomotiv" - "Spartak", "Metallurg" - "Traktor", "Dynamo" (Moscow) - SKA, "Avangard" - "Salavat Yulaev"

In the KHL season has already passed more than half of the regular season, but the intrigue in the fight for the playoffs and the first places in both conferences still remains. Only the situation with the leader of the standings is clear - Lokomotiv Yaroslavl leads the first line by a wide margin. However, on Friday it will host Spartak Moscow, second in the Western Conference. The Red-Whites are 13 points behind the Railroaders with three fewer games played, and if they win in regulation time, they can try to challenge for the lead. Dinamo Moscow and SKA St. Petersburg will play against each other in the capital a day later. On the same day, the Chelyabinsk Region derby will take place - Magnitogorsk Metallurg, the reigning Gagarin Cup winner and fourth in the East, will host conference leader Traktor Chelyabinsk. Second-place Salavat Yulayev of Ufa will play host to Avangard of Omsk on Sunday.

January 10, 19:30, Arena-2000 (Yaroslavl). January 11: 14:30, Arena Metallurg (Magnitogorsk); 17:00, VTB Arena (Moscow). January 12, 14:00, "G-Drive Arena" (Omsk). Live streaming on Match TV, KHL TV, KHL Prime and Kinopoisk

Biathlon

Cup of Russia. Fourth stage

After the New Year holidays resumes the official Russian competitions in winter sports. The first of these will be six races in Ryazan as part of the fourth stage of the Russian Biathlon Cup - sprint, pursuit and mass start for men and women. Last week in the same city there was held a show event "Race of Champions" with the participation of biathletes and skiers, which was attended by about 7 thousand spectators. Probably, similar excitement will be at the next stage of the Cup of Russia.

January 10, sprint: 11:00, men; 14:00, women. January 11, pursuit: 11:00, men; 14:00, women. January 12, super sprint: 11:00, qualification, men; 11:40, qualification, women; 14:00, final, men; 14:30, final, women. Biathlon Complex "Almaz" (Ryazan). Live on Match TV, Match! Arena and Match! Planet

Speed and shot: how the "Race of Champions" went down

In Ryazan held a unique ski-biathlon relay race

Tennis

Women. WTA 500tournament

The first Grand Slam tennis tournament of the season, the Australian Open, will start on Monday night. Meanwhile, the future participants are testing their strength in the last preparatory competitions, one of which is held in Adelaide and will end in the next two days. Russian Lyudmila Samsonova reached the semifinals there and will play American Madison Keys. If she wins, she will play in the final against another US representative, Jessica Pegula, or Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan.

January 10, semifinals: 06:30, Keys - Samsonova; 11:00, Pegula - Putintseva. January 11, 11:30, final. Memorial Drive Stadium (Adelaide, Australia). Live streaming on the WTAwebsite

Mixed Martial Arts

UFC Fight Night 249. Fatima Cline vs. Victoria Dudakova, Chris Curtis vs. Roman Kopylov

The year 2025 begins and for the best fighters of the planet, among which, as usual, a lot of Russians. Two bouts involving ours will take place next weekend in Las Vegas as part of UFC Fight Night. Victoria Dudakova will step into the octagon against Fatima Kline from the United States. And in the men's main card of the tournament will be another American-Russian confrontation - Chris Curtis will fight with Roman Kopylov.

January 12: 00:25, Kline vs. Dudakova; 04:30, Curtis vs. Kopylov. UFC Apex (Las Vegas, USA). Live broadcasts on Match! Combatant

With a new court: how Russian tennis players started the season

On the eve of the Australian Open, Kudermetova Jr. surpassed her sister, Mirra Andreeva broke into the top 15, Karatsev took the title in Thailand

Basketball

VTB United League. "Zenit" - "Lokomotiv-Kuban"

The season in Russian basketball is in full swing. More than half of the VTB United League regular season has already passed, and the four leaders have pulled away from the rest. We're talking about CSKA Moscow, Zenit St. Petersburg, UNICS Kazan and Lokomotiv-Kuban Krasnodar. These teams are also the most successful in recent years, constantly playing each other for medals in the playoffs. Therefore, each of their face-to-face matches has a special status. One of these games will take place on Saturday - Zenit will host Lokomotiv-Kuban.

January 11, 15:30, Arena (St. Petersburg). Live on Match TV and Match! Game