Sports weekend with Izvestia

Football

Russian Championship, round 28. Lokomotiv — Dynamo (Moscow), CSKA — Zenit

The end of the season is approaching in the RPL. There are three rounds left until the end of the current Russian Championship draw. Two matches with top signage will take place in the nearest one. Both will have an impact on the distribution of medals. Zenit, a contender for the championship, will play away with CSKA, which retains its chances of bronze. To continue the fight for gold with Krasnodar, the club from the Northern Capital needs to defeat the army men, for whom a misfire in this game will mean an almost complete loss of chances of getting into the top three. Their competitor, the third-placed Lokomotiv, will try to hold its position following the results of the Moscow derby with Dynamo scheduled for the weekend.

May 1: 19:30, Russian Railways Arena Stadium (Moscow);
May 2, 19:00, VEB Arena Stadium (Moscow).

Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match Premier

Grozny Pass: Zenit did not let Krasnodar go in the championship race

Having confidently beaten Akhmat, the St. Petersburg team continues to breathe down the bulls' backs

Hockey

Gagarin Cup, semi-finals. Lokomotiv — Avangard, Metallurg - Ak Bars. Fourth and fifth matches

The fight to reach the KHL playoff finals is in full swing. And so far, the outcome in the two semifinal confrontations is far away, although three matches have already been played in them. Omsk Avangard leads 2-1 in the series against Yaroslavl Lokomotiv. And Ak Bars Kazan is beating Metallurg Magnitogorsk with a similar score. By the end of the week, we are waiting for the fourth and fifth matches of the series, which may determine the winners. However, it is just as likely that the semifinals will stretch until next week, when the sixth and seventh meetings may take place.

April 30, 16:30, G-Drive Arena (Omsk);
May 1, 15:00, Tatneft Arena (Kazan);
May 2, 17:00, Arena 2000 (Yaroslavl);
May 3, 14:00, Metallurg Arena (Magnitogorsk).

Live broadcasts on Match TV, KHL TV and KHL Prime

Magnetic train: Loko is not helped by the championship experience, but Metallurg is back in the game

The semifinals of the Gagarin Cup are held with different moods

Tennis

Women. The WTA-1000 tournament. Semi-finals and finals

This week in Madrid, the next "millennials" (the winner gets 1,000 points in his rating) in the tennis season are coming to an end. These are the second-tier tournaments after the Grand Slam. In one of these women's competitions, Russian Mirra Andreeva continues to fight for the trophy. On April 30, she will play in the semifinals with American Haley Baptist. If she wins, our athlete will face Anastasia Potapova of Austria or Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine in the final.

April 30, semifinals:
17:00, Baptist — Andreeva;
23:00, Potapova — Kostyuk.

May 2, 19:30, final. Caja Mahika Stadium, Manolo Santana Court (Madrid, Spain).

Live broadcasts on the WTA website

For Myrrh all over the world: how Andreeva conquers Madrid and dreams of shoes

The Russian became the youngest semi-finalist of the Spanish thousandth

Basketball

VTB United League. The quarterfinals. Third matches

The VTB United Basketball League is in full swing with a series of the first round of the playoffs (quarterfinals). Two matches have already been played, and the third one will be played at the end of this week. Uralmash Yekaterinburg will host Zenit St. Petersburg. After the first two games in the Northern Capital, the score in the series is 1-1. Therefore, the next meeting will definitely not be the last — both teams will have another fourth match in the Urals at the beginning of next week. If there is no winner based on the results, then everything will be decided based on the results of the fifth game in St. Petersburg.

Kazan UNICS won the first two matches of the series at home against the Moscow IBA-MAI and now, following the results of the third meeting in the capital, they can advance to the semifinals. There are similar situations in the confrontations of CSKA Moscow with Krasnoyarsk Yenisei and Krasnodar Lokomotiv-Kuban and Perm Parma. In the case of away wins following the results of the third matches, the Army and the Railwaymen will win these series and go on.

May 2, 18:00: Basket Hall (Moscow); Uralochka Palace of Game Sports (Yekaterinburg);
May 3: 12:00 p.m., Arena-Sever (Krasnoyarsk); 3:00 p.m., Viktor Lebedev Molot Stadium (Perm).

Live broadcasts on "Match Game"

Army renaissance: CSKA is the first again, and Zenit got Uralmash

Let's summarize the results of the regular season of the United League

Volleyball

Women. The Russian Cup. "The Final Six"

The volleyball season in Russia is almost over. The national champions among men and women have already been determined, and this week the winner of the women's Cup of Russia will be announced. This will happen following the results of the "Final Six", which is being held in Moscow. The new champion Dynamo-Ak Bars Kazan, as well as Zarechye-Odintsovo near Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, Uralochka-NTMK (Sverdlovsk Region), St. Petersburg Korabelka and Tulitsa (Tula Region) are taking part in it.

April 30, 16:00 – 19:00, the last round of the group stage;
May 2, 16:00 – 19:00, semifinals;
May 3, 16:00 – 19:00, the match for the third place and the final.

Dynamo Sports Palace (Moscow).

Live broadcasts on "Match Country" and "Match Planet"