Sports weekend with Izvestia

Football

The Russian Championship. Rubin – Spartak, Zenit - Dynamo (Makhachkala), Krylia Sovetov - Krasnodar

The crisis of a number of top RPL clubs at the start of the current Russian championship draw has led to the fact that in the upcoming sixth round several matches with not the brightest signage can claim the status of central ones. Spartak Moscow, which has found itself in the zone of transitional matches, is going to visit Rubin Kazan, which has successfully started the season, which occupies the fourth place and is only three points behind the first. Zenit St. Petersburg, the richest club in the league, which is stuck in ninth place, is just one point ahead of Dynamo Makhachkala, the lowest—budget club. It is with him that the team from the Northern Capital will meet at home in the next game. And the unexpectedly successful Samara Krylia Sovetov will host the reigning champion Krasnodar.

August 23: 14:00, Ak Bars Arena (Kazan); 16:15, Gazprom Arena (St. Petersburg). August 24, 3 p.m., Solidarity Samara Arena (Samara). Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match Premier

Tennis

The US Open

The last Grand Slam tournament of the season, the most prestigious series in world tennis, starts in singles next Sunday. The strongest players will traditionally gather at the US Open. As usual, over a dozen Russians will take part. The matches of the first round (1/64 finals) will be held on the evening of August 24.

August 24, 18:00-00:00. Billie Jean King National Tennis Center (New York, USA). Live broadcasts on the ATP and WTA websites

Mixed martial arts

UFC Fight Night 257. Sergey Pavlovich – Waldo Cortez-Acosta

Usually, major UFC tournaments take place in the United States or the Middle East, but next weekend, a vibrant fight night will take place in China. The main confrontation of the UFC Fight Night 257 tournament in Shanghai will be a duel between Brazilian Johnny Walker and Chinese Zhang Mingyan. But our viewers will be most interested in another fight on the main card, in which Russian heavyweight Sergey Pavlovich will face Dominican Waldo Cortez-Acosta.

August 23, 14:00. Mercedes-Benz Arena (Shanghai, China). Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match! The fighter"

Hockey

Pancake Cup

There is less than a month left before the start of the new KHL season, and the clubs are in the midst of a preparatory period. Traditionally, a lot of exhibition tournaments are held at the end of August, where teams are gradually getting in shape for the first games of the regular season, which starts on September 5. One of these tournaments is the Blinov Cup, which is taking place this week in Omsk, in which, in addition to the local Avangard, the winner of last season, Yaroslavl Lokomotiv, as well as Novosibirsk Siberia, Cherepovets Severstal and Nizhnekamsk Neftekhimik are taking part.

August 22, 16:30, Severstal – Neftekhimik. August 23: 12:00, Sibir – Severstal; 16:30, Avangard – Lokomotiv. August 24: 12:00 p.m., Lokomotiv – Neftekhimik, 4:30 p.m., Avangard – Severstal. G-Drive Arena (Omsk). Live broadcasts on KHL TV and KHL Prime

World Chess Olympiad under 16 years of age

The World Chess Olympiad for athletes under the age of 16, which became the first major team tournament with the participation of Russians after the spring of 2022, will end on Saturday in the Colombian city of Barranquilla. And the return turned out to be a triumph. The Russian national team leads the competition by a wide margin.

August 22-23, 17:00. Chess Center (Barranquilla, Colombia)