Sports weekend with Izvestia

Football

The Russian Championship. Round 22

The RPL draw resumes after a two-week pause for the national team games. The Russian championship is in the midst of a medal race. And the upcoming 22nd round will be especially interesting with two games with the participation of gold contenders Spartak Moscow and Zenit St. Petersburg, who are in the top three and three points behind the leading Krasnodar.

Spartak players will visit Akhmat Grozny, which is gaining momentum, next weekend, and St. Petersburg will host Rubin Kazan, an extremely unyielding middle—class player. Krasnodar, in turn, will play at home with the struggling Fakel.

March 30: 14:00, Krasnodar Stadium (Krasnodar); 16:30, Akhmat Arena (Grozny); 19:30, Gazprom Arena (St. Petersburg). Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match Premier

Hockey

Gagarin Cup. The first round. Second and third matches

The KHL playoffs kicked off this week. The first matches in all eight episodes of the first round have already been played. The second games will take place in the next two days. On March 28, Metallurg Magnitogorsk will host Avangard Omsk, Spartak Moscow will meet Severstal Cherepovets at home, Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg will play Ak Bars Kazan at home, and Dinamo Minsk will play CSKA Moscow.

The first matches were won by Avangard, Spartak, Ak Bars and Minsk. On March 30, all four series will move to the cities of the teams playing the opening two matches away.

And on March 29, the second matches of four other series will take place: Dynamo Moscow will host SKA St. Petersburg, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl will play Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod on its ice, Salavat Yulaev Ufa will meet Sibir Novosibirsk at home, and Traktor Chelyabinsk will play against Admiral Vladivostok at home.".

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For the first time in many years, there are no clear favorites at the start of the Gagarin Cup

March 28: 17:00, Metallurg Arena (Magnitogorsk), UMMC Arena (Yekaterinburg); 19:30, Megasport (Moscow), Minsk Arena (Minsk, Belarus). March 29: 14:30, Valery Belousov Traktor Arena (Chelyabinsk), Ufa Arena (Ufa); 16:30, Arena 2000 (Yaroslavl); 19:30, VTB Arena (Moscow). March 30: 14:00, G-Drive Arena (Omsk); 17:00, CSKA Arena (Moscow), Ice Palace (Cherepovets), Tatneft Arena (Kazan). Live broadcasts on Match TV, KHL TV, KHL Prime and Kinopoisk

Tennis

Women. Couples. Miami WTA 1000 Tournament

The men's Masters tournament and the women's WTA-1000 women's tournament are coming to an end in Miami. All Russians have already been eliminated in singles. But the best Russian duo Mirra Andreeva and Diana Schneider continue to perform in the women's doubles. The silver medalists of last year's Olympics in Paris have already reached the semifinals, where they will play with Chinese Jiang Xinyu and Fang-Xie Wu from Chinese Taipei (the official name in the sports community of the Taiwan teams). If they reach the finals, they will compete for the title with the winner of the match Katerina Sinyazhkova from the Czech Republic and Taylor Townsend from the USA against Kristina Bukshi from Spain and Miyu Kata from Japan.

March 28, 19:00, semifinals. March 29, 19:00, final. Hard Rock Stadium (Miami, USA). Live broadcasts on the WTA website

Biathlon

Russian Championship

There is very little left until the end of the Russian biathlon season. The last medals of the national championship, held in Khanty-Mansiysk, will be awarded next weekend. Besides our best athletes, stars from Belarus also participate there. On the remaining two competition days, four sets of medals will be awarded — in the men's and women's relay races, as well as in the men's and women's mass starts.

March 29, relay races: 10:00, men; 12:30, women. March 30, mass start: 10:00, men; 12:00, women. A.V.Filipenko Winter Sports Center (Khanty-Mansiysk). Live broadcasts on Match TV, Match! Arena" and "Match! The planet"

Ski racing

The Russian Cup. The final

The ski season in Russia is also gradually coming to an end. There is only one stage of the Russian Cup and the Russian Championship left. The final stage of the Cup of Russia will start next weekend in the Murmansk region in the city of Apatity, where individual races for men and women will be held, first in free and then in classic style. Almost all our stars will perform there, including Olympic champions and World Cup winners Alexander Bolshunov and Natalia Terentyeva.

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March 29, individual freestyle race: 11:00 a.m., women, 12:30 p.m., men. March 30, individual classic style race: 11:00, women; 13:00, men. Atlet Training and Sports Center (Apatity). Live broadcasts on the website of the Russian Ski Racing Federation

Basketball

VTB United League. Zenit – CSKA

There are just over two weeks left until the end of the VTB United League regular season. Each team still needs to play four or five matches. But most of the participants in the playoffs and the playoffs are already known. The question is who will finish the regular season in which place and how the pairs will be distributed in the first rounds. In particular, the intrigue remains in the fight for the first place: CSKA Moscow and Zenit St. Petersburg are on a par. And next weekend they will play against each other in St. Petersburg. This game will largely determine the winner of the regular season.

March 30, 2 p.m., Arena (St. Petersburg). Live broadcast on Match TV