Sports weekend with Izvestia

Football

The Russian Championship. CSKA – Baltika

It is this match that will be central to the upcoming 10th round of the Russian Championship in terms of tournament performance. Both teams are in the top three and closely chasing the leading Krasnodar. Moreover, if CSKA Moscow's position in second place surprises few people against the background of the successes of the army team in recent seasons, then the third place of Kaliningrad Baltika is the main sensation of the first third of the championship. Andrey Talalaev's team was in the first league back in the spring, and now they are undefeated in the RPL. And on Sunday he will try to extend this series in an away match with a competitor.

September 28, 2:30 p.m., VEB Arena (Moscow). Live broadcasts on "Match Premier".

Figure skating

Test rentals

Next weekend in St. Petersburg, almost all of the best Russian figure skaters will appear in front of the audience for the first time in the season as part of the test rentals. It is in them that we will see the programs that will be performed by the participants of the All-Russian competitions in the period from October to March. Among others, Adelia Petrosyan and Peter Gumennik, who recently won Olympic qualification in Beijing and now have a chance to go to the Olympics in Italy in February, will take the ice.

September 27-28, 2 p.m., Yubileyny Sports Complex (St. Petersburg). Live broadcasts on Channel One and Channel One's website.

Hockey

The KHL Regular Season. Lokomotiv – Avtomobilist, Metallurg – Ak Bars

At the end of this week, two matches are particularly significant in the KHL. On Friday, the current Gagarin Cup winner and the leader of the Western Conference of the current regular season, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, will play at home with one of the strongest teams in the Eastern Conference, Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg. And on Saturday, Metallurg Magnitogorsk, the leader of the East and the entire regular season, will host Ak Bars Kazan, which unexpectedly found itself outside the playoff zone, which recently made a high-profile transfer by signing Sasha Khmelevsky, the star striker of Salavat Yulaev Ufa, for two years.

September 26, 19:00, Arena 2000 (Yaroslavl). September 27: 14:30, Metallurg Arena (Magnitogorsk). Live broadcasts on KHL TV, KHL Prime and Kinopoisk.

Tennis

Tournaments in Beijing

Two major tennis competitions in Beijing began this week and will end next week. Russians Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev will start in the men's ATP 500 on Friday morning. The former will play Cameron Norrie and, if he wins, will advance to the second round against Spaniard Alejandro Davichovich-Fokina. Rublev will start performing with Italian Flavio Kobolli. On Friday morning, the women's second round matches will be held, in which our Mirra Andreeva, Lyudmila Samsonova, Ekaterina Alexandrova, Diana Schneider, Anna Kalinskaya, Veronika and Polina Kudermetova, Anastasia Potapova and Kamilla Rakhimova will take part. And on the weekend, the first quarterfinalists of both tournaments will be announced.

September 26-28, 05:00-14:30. National Tennis Center (Beijing, China). Live broadcasts on the ATP and WTA websites.

Basketball

VTB United League

The new VTB United League season will begin on Sunday. As usual, the regular season of Russia's main basketball club tournament will last until mid-spring. It will end on April 22. And then there will be the playoffs, which will determine the winner of the season no later than June 1, 2026. There will be two matches on the first game day of the new championship. Krasnodar's Lokomotiv Kuban will host Yekaterinburg's Uralmash on its site, and Kazan's UNICS will meet at home with Perm's Parma.

September 28: 14:00, Basket Hall (Krasnodar); 18:00, Basket Hall (Kazan). Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match! The game."