Sports weekend with Izvestia

Football

The Russian Championship. Lokomotiv — CSKA

The Moscow derby between Lokomotiv and CSKA Moscow scheduled for Saturday is itself the central match in the upcoming 12th round of the Russian Premier League. But in this case, the intensity of the confrontation is reinforced by the fact that these two teams are leading in the championship. CSKA is first and only one point ahead of the second-place Loko. Their face-to-face match will have a significant impact on the battle for tournament gold.

October 18, 19:45, Russian Railways Arena (Moscow). Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match Premier

Athletic gymnastics

World championship

Sunday's start of the world Championships in Jakarta will be special, as for the first time since February 2022, Russian and Belarusian gymnasts, albeit in a neutral status, will take part in an international competition of this level. 10 athletes from our country will compete, including Olympic champion Angelina Melnikova in Tokyo. But on the first day of the World Championships, we will see not her, but our men, whose main hope for medals is Daniel Marinov, the winner of last year's BRICS Games in the all—around, who became the main star among gymnasts in the absence of Nikita Nagorny and Artur Dalaloyan. But this is the first time he will perform at this level.

October 19, 06:00 - 16:20, men, qualification, six streams (Russians in the fourth stream, which will be held at 12:05 - 13:45). Indonesia Stadium (Jakarta, Indonesia).

Tennis

Women. WTA 500 Tournament

There is less than a month left until the end of the season in world tennis, but the list of participants in the Final ATP Men's and WTA women's tournaments has not yet been fully determined. Eight leaders of the world ranking will get there. Russians may be among them. In particular, Ekaterina Alexandrova, who this week made it into the top 10 for the first time in her career. And she continues to fight for victory in the tournament in Ningbo, China, where she reached the quarterfinals. On Friday, she will meet with American McCartney Kessler. If Ekaterina wins, she can get to her compatriot Diana Schneider in the semifinals if she beats Chinese Zhu Lin. In the other two quarterfinals, Swiss Belinda Bencic will take the court against Italian Jasmine Paolini, and Australian Ayla Tomljanovic will take the court against Elena Rybakina from Kazakhstan.

October 17, quarterfinals: 08:00, Bencic — Paolini; 09:30, Alexandrova — Kessler; 11:00, Tomljanovic — Rybakina; 14:00, Lin — Schneider. October 18: 14:00, first semi-final; 17:00, second semi-final. October 19, 12:00 p.m., final. Ariake Tennis Park is a park (Ningbo, China). Live broadcasts on the WTA website

Hockey

The KHL Regular Season. SKA — "Locomotive", "Avangard" — "Avtomobilist"

As usual, the weekend will not be complete without interesting matches in the KHL. There are two meetings worth highlighting this time. On Saturday in St. Petersburg, the local SKA will host one of its most principled rivals in recent years, the current Gagarin Cup winner Yaroslavl Lokomotiv. And the next day, two Eastern top clubs will meet in Omsk - the local Avangard will play at home with Yekaterinburg Avtomobilist.

October 18, 17:00, IC "Ice Palace" (St. Petersburg). October 19, 2 p.m., G-Drive Arena (Omsk). Live broadcasts on KHL TV and KHL Prime

Volleyball

Men. The Russian Championship. Dynamo (Moscow) — Zenit (Kazan)

The next men's Volleyball Super League draw starts next weekend. The central match of the first round will be the confrontation between the two most titled clubs in the country — Dynamo Moscow and Zenit Kazan. These teams have won gold medals at the last five championships. Kazan currently has a series of three championships in a row, and the blue and white team finished first twice before them. They will be among the favorites in the upcoming season.

October 19, 18:00, Dynamo Volleyball Arena (Moscow). Live broadcasts on "Match! Country", "Match! Game" and "Match! Planet