Sports Weekend with Izvestia
Mixed Martial Arts
PFL Tournament. Usman Nurmagomedov vs. Paul Hughes, Vadim Nemkov vs. Timothy Johnson
The PFL Road to Dubai tournament will take place in Dubai this weekend. Russians will take part in four fights on the card, including two key fights. In the main event of the evening our Usman Nurmagomedov, the current Bellator lightweight champion, will go up against Irishman Paul Hughes. In the consensual heavyweight bout will meet the reigning Bellator light heavyweight champion Vadim Nemkov of Russia and American Timothy Johnson. In addition, Akhmed Magomedov will fight Irishman Nathan Kelly in the featherweight division, and Renat Khavalov will take to the octagon against Brazilian Claver Fernandez.
January 25, 21:00-23:00, Coca-Cola Arena (Dubai, UAE). Live streaming on Okko Sports
Tennis
Women. Doubles. Australian Open Championship. Semifinals and final
At the first Grand Slam tennis tournament of the season, the time of the deciding matches is approaching. All Russians have already dropped out in singles, but we are still interested in the women's doubles competition. Early in the morning of January 24, Moscow time, there will be a semifinal with Mirra Andreeva and Diana Schneider, silver medalists of last year's Olympics in Paris. They will face Kateřina Siniakova of the Czech Republic and Taylor Townsend of the United States. In the second semifinal, Xie Shuwei of Taiwan, paired with Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia, will play Canada's Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand's Erin Routliffe. Andreeva and Schneider could play with either of them in the final.
January 24, semifinals: 04:00, Siniakova/Townsend - Andreeva/Schneider; 05:30, Shuvey/Ostapenko - Dabrowski/Rutliffe. January 25, 07:00, Final. Melbourne Park Stadium (Melbourne, Australia). Live streaming on WTA websites
Biathlon
Russian Cup. Fifth stage
January was rich in competitions in winter sports. In the coming weekend will be held the last official starts this winter in biathlon and cross-country skiing. The next ones will take place in March. Thus, biathletes will play for medals at the fifth stage of the Cup of Russia, which will be held in the village of Dyomino near Rybinsk in the Yaroslavl region. Unlike the previous stages and individual races held there on January 23, we will not see Belarusian athletes in the coming days, who will go to their homeland to vote in the upcoming presidential elections. However, the purely Russian lineup of several world champions and Olympic medalists also contributes to the interest in the sprint and mass start, which will be held on the last two days of the week.
January 25, sprint: 10:00, men; 13:50, women. Jan. 26, mass start: 11:30 a.m., men; 2:30 p.m., women. Demino Ski Center (Rybinsk). Live broadcasts on Match TV, Match! Arena and Match! Planet
Cross-Country Skiing
Cup of Russia. Sixth stage
The last winter stage will be held and skiers. In the framework of the Cup of Russia athletes will gather in Izhevsk. The main star, three-time Olympic champion Alexander Bolshunov, is expected to take part there. Due to injuries and illnesses, he is having an unsuccessful season and has missed quite a few starts. But besides him, almost all of our status participants will gather in the capital of Udmurtia.
January 25, sprint, free style: 09:30, qualification; 11:30, finals. January 26, individual race, classic style: 10:00, women, 12:30, men. G.A. Kulakova Sports and Recreational Ski Complex (Izhevsk). Live on Match TV, Match! Arena and Match! Planet
Soccer
French Championship. "Monaco" - "Rennes", PSG - "Reims", "Le Havre" - "Brest"
In the French Ligue 1 has already passed more than half of the rounds. And the clubs, in which the Russians play, are fully engaged in solving their tournament problems. "Alexander Golovin's Monaco will take on Rennes at home in the upcoming 19th round. Monegasques have not won four matches in a row in the championship and risk falling out of the top-4 standings, giving the right to play in the next Champions League. Therefore, the team needs to win to hold their position. Matvey Safonov's PSG feels much better - first place with a nine-point gap from second place. To prevent the revival of the championship intrigue, the capital team needs to win at home Reims. It was on the road to him last round brought a draw "Le Havre" Daler Kuzyaev, breaking his five-match losing streak. But this does not help the team to get out of the relegation zone - four points separate it from the saving 15th place. To keep their chances of salvation, they need to win at home against Brest next weekend.
January 25: 19:00, stadium "Louis II" (Fonvieille, Monaco); 23:05, stadium "Parc de Prance" (Paris, France). January 26, 17:00, Stade Océan (Le Havre, France). Live streaming onOkko Sport
Hockey
KHL regular season. "Spartak" - "Lokomotiv", SKA - "Salavat Yulaev"
Exactly two months left until the end of the regular KHL championship, and the intrigue in the fight for playoff spots and leading positions in the table still remains. Therefore, most of the matches of the next weekend will be important. Two confrontations can be called the most colorful in terms of status. Moscow "Spartak" will take on its ice the leader of the regular season Yaroslavl "Lokomotiv". "Railroaders" with a large gap go first. One of their closest pursuers in the Western Conference is the Red and White, who are 18 points behind the Yaroslavl team, having played three fewer games. If they win the game, they can partially revive the intrigue in the fight for the Continental Cup. And SKA St. Petersburg, which is in crisis, is trying to catch up with the leaders of the West and rise from its current sixth place. But to do that, the Army Men need to beat Salavat Yulaev of Ufa, one of the leaders of the East, at home.
January 25: 14:00, Megasport Arena (Moscow); 17:00, SKA Arena (St. Petersburg). Live broadcasts on "KHL Prime" and "Kinopoisk"
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