Sports weekend with Izvestia

Football. The Russian Championship. Dynamo – Zenit

In the 22nd round of the Russian Premier League, the central match will be the confrontation between Dynamo Moscow and Zenit St. Petersburg. The club from the Northern Capital is second in the championship, one point behind the leading Krasnodar. In order to keep up with their competitor, the blue-white-blues need to beat Dynamo, which has gained momentum, which has won four of its five spring matches, three of them with a big score, and lost only this week to Spartak (0:1) in the second leg of the Russian Cup, which is not it prevented us from going further because of the 5-2 victory in the first game.

"Whoever says they don't look at the chart is lying"

Lokomotiv football player Artyom Karpukas — about the struggle for leadership in the RPL and the reasons for failures in recent matches

March 22, 16:00, VTB Arena (Moscow).

Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match Premier.

Figure skating. Channel One Cup

Figure skating enthusiasts will see Adelia Petrosyan perform in St. Petersburg this weekend for the first time since February. She will take to the ice as part of the Channel One Cup. Pyotr Gumennik, another participant of the last Olympic Games, will also compete in men's single skating there. Two teams will compete in the tournament — Moscow and St. Petersburg. Athletes from other regions invited to participate are distributed between these two teams. Each team will feature five girls, five men, two sports pairs, and two dance duets. Sports couples will show a short program, dance duets — a free dance. For singles, one athlete and one athlete in a team will roll back both programs, and the rest will have one to choose from. The prize fund of the tournament will be 21 million rubles. The winning team will receive 14 million rubles, the second team — 7 million. In addition to the aforementioned stars, viewers will also see world junior champion Kamila Valieva and many other leading figure skaters of the country.

March 21, 2 p.m., short program.

March 22, 2 p.m., free program.

The Yubileyny Sports Complex (Saint Petersburg).

Live broadcasts on Channel One and Channel One's website.

Tennis. Men. Masters and WTA tournaments

Last week, Russian Daniil Medvedev reached the finals of the first Masters tournament of the season in Indian Wells. Now he has started fighting for the trophy in the second competition of this class in world tennis — already in Miami. Besides Medvedev, Karen Khachanov and Andrey Rublev will also speak from our country. All three will start with the second round, which will be held next weekend. In addition, the next women's WTA "thousandth" began in Miami. Among others, Russians Mirra Andreeva, Ekaterina Alexandrova, Lyudmila Samsonova, Diana Schneider and Anna Kalinskaya will start from the second round at the weekend.

20th of March:
00:00 – 03:00, first round;
17:00 – 00:00, second round.

21 March:
00:00 – 04:00, 18:00 – 00:00, the second round.

March 22nd:
00:00 – 04:00, second round;
18:00 – 00:00, third round.

Hard Rock Stadium (Miami, USA).

Live broadcasts on the ATP and WTA websites.

Mixed martial arts. UFC Fight 270. Movsar Yevloev as Leron Murphy

A major UFC fighting tournament will be held in London this weekend, the main match of which will be a featherweight bout between the first world number one in this category, Russian Movsar Yevloev and the fourth number Briton Leron Murphy. The winner of the bout will become a contender for the championship belt and will face the current title holder Alexander Volkanovsky.

Appointment court: Daniil Medvedev returned to top form

Despite losing in the final, the Russian showed an elite level of skill and fought on equal terms with the leaders of world tennis.

March 22, 01:30. O2 Arena (London, UK).

Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match Fighter.

Biathlon. Russian Championship

The season in Russian biathlon is coming to an end. The second stage of the Russian Championship is taking place in Tyumen this week. At the end of next week, we will have the last third stage, which will be held in the village of Uvat in the Tyumen region in the marathon format. And in early April, Murmansk will host the final stage of the Commonwealth Cup, after which Russian and Belarusian biathletes will go on vacation. The first stage of the Russian championship will end next weekend, when the winners in relay races and mass starts will be determined.

21 March:
10:00 a.m., mass start, men;
12:30 p.m., relay race, women.

March 22nd:
09:30, relay race, men;
11:45 a.m., mass start, women.

The Pearl of Siberia Stadium (Tyumen).

Live broadcasts on Match TV, Match Arena and Match Planet.

Hockey. KHL Regular Season

On March 20, the last day of the KHL regular season, eight matches will be played. Most of them have no tournament significance, since all the participants in the playoffs have already been decided, and all four pairs of the first round are known in the Eastern Conference. Changes in the top eight standings are possible only in the Western Conference, where Dynamo Moscow and SKA St. Petersburg will play their home matches, which will find out which of them will finish fifth and which will finish sixth. Dynamo will host Ak Bars Kazan, and SKA will host their fellow countrymen Shanghai Dragons.

It is also worth highlighting the face-to-face meeting of the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv and Magnitogorsk Metallurg, who have already secured the first places in both conferences, who have won the last two Gagarin Cups. The fight for this trophy starts next week, when the playoffs begin.

March 20, 19:30: VTB Arena (Moscow); IC "Ice Palace" (St. Petersburg); Arena-2000 (Yaroslavl).

Live broadcasts on KHL TV, KHL Prime and Kinopoisk.