Sports weekend with Izvestia

Football

The Russian Championship. Spartak — Zenit, Dynamo — CSKA

The upcoming fifth round of the Russian Football Championship includes two top matches at once. On Saturday, Spartak Moscow will host Zenit St. Petersburg. Both clubs failed to start the season, despite having the largest budgets in the RPL. They are stuck in the second half of the table and will determine in a face-to-face meeting who will move up faster.

Another team with claims to fight for leadership ended up in the middle of the table — we are talking about Dynamo Moscow, which will have a capital derby against CSKA on Sunday.

August 16, 17:30, Lukoil Arena (Moscow). August 17, 18:00, VTB Arena (Moscow). Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match Premier

Tennis

Masters and WTA-1000 tournaments

In the global tennis season, the last Grand Slam tournament of the year is on the way — the US Open, which starts at the end of next week. And next weekend, the decisive stages of the tournaments will be held in Cincinnati, USA, the winners of which will receive 1,000 points each in their ratings. On Friday night, the last quarterfinalists of these competitions will be determined. In particular, in the women's WTA-1000, Russian Veronika Kudermetova will compete with Magda Linette from Poland to reach this stage. Meanwhile, on Friday evening, another Russian-Polish confrontation will take place in the quarterfinals — Anna Kalinskaya against Iga Sventek.

Andrey Rublev reached the quarterfinals in the men's Masters tournament, where he will play Carlos Alcaraz.

August 15: 02:00, 1/8 finals, women, Kudermetova — Lynette; 18:00 – 00:00, quarterfinals. August 16: 00:00 – 05:00, quarterfinals; 18:00 – 00:00, women's semifinals. August 17: 00:00 – 04:30, men's semifinals; 22:00, women's finals. August 18, 01:00, men's final. Lindner Family Tennis Center (Cincinnati, USA)

The American Dream: how Russians continue to fight at the Cincinnati Masters

Rublev spent 3.5 hours on the court, Khachanov is in the best shape in the last few years.

Hockey

Minsk Cup

KHL clubs are in the midst of preparing for the new season, which starts in September. One of the stages of preparation for some teams is the Minsk Cup exhibition tournament, which is taking place this week in the capital of Belarus. In addition to Dynamo Minsk, the hosts of the competition, Magnitogorsk Metallurg, Vladivostok Admiral and Tolyatti Lada are taking part in it.

August 15, 19:00, Dynamo — Metallurg, Chizhovka Arena (Minsk, Belarus). August 17, 11:00 a.m., Metallurg — Lada, Olympic Arena (Minsk, Belarus). Live broadcasts on KHL TV and KHL Prime

Ovi and the others: what can fans expect from the "Match of the Year"

The stars of Russian and American hockey will take to the ice in the middle of summer

Box

Russian Championship

The Russian Men's Boxing Championship starts next weekend in Yekaterinburg, which will be held until August 22 inclusive. More than 300 athletes from 60 regions of the country will take part in it. The winners will receive a ticket to the next World Cup, which will be held in November in Astana.

But that's not the only incentive for boxers. An equally significant motivation will be the financial component. The prize pool at the upcoming Russian Championships will be a record in the history of national championships. It will amount to 35.1 million rubles. The winners will receive two million rubles each, silver medalists — 350 thousand, bronze — 175 thousand.

August 16-17, 12:00 – 21:30, preliminary matches. The Palace of Game Sports (Yekaterinburg). Live broadcasts on Match TV, Match! Country", "Match! Fighter" and "Match! The planet"

"Anyone can be defeated"

Russian mixed martial artist Peter Yan — about the upcoming UFC tournament, his opponent and Bivol's third fight with Beterbiev

Chess

World Chess Olympiad under 16 years of age

Last fall, the International Chess Federation (FIDE) lifted the ban on youth national teams and teams of athletes with disabilities from Russia and Belarus at major world competitions. The first team from Russia to use this permission was the youth national team. She will take part in the World Chess Olympiad for athletes under the age of 16, which will be held from August 16 to 23 in the Colombian city of Barranquilla. Ivan Zemlyansky, a rising star of Russian chess, is among the participants.

August 16-17, 17:00. Chess Center (Barranquilla, Colombia)

Women's game: what to expect from our chess team at the World Cup in Spain

For the first time after the forced break, the Russian national team will compete at the 2025 World Cup.