Sports weekend with Izvestia

Football

The Russian Championship. Krasnodar — Orenburg, Rostov — Zenit, CSKA - Lokomotiv

The Russian Football Championship will end this week. There is still intrigue in the fight for gold until the last 30th round. Zenit St. Petersburg came out on top last week, and now it's enough for them not to lose in an away game against Rostov to regain the championship they lost a year ago. If the blue-white-blues lose to the Don club, then the reigning champion Krasnodar, in the event of a home victory over Orenburg, will win the RPL tournament for the second time in a row. There is also an intrigue in the fight for bronze. Here, Lokomotiv needs to win or draw in the Moscow derby with CSKA in order not to miss Spartak Moscow ahead.

May 17, 18:00: Ozon Arena (Krasnodar); Rostov Arena (Rostov-on-Don); VEB Arena (Moscow).

Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match Premier.

Hockey

Gagarin Cup. The final. The third and fourth matches. Ak Bars — Lokomotiv

The decisive series of the season in Russian hockey is gaining momentum. After the two opening matches of the Gagarin Cup final between Lokomotiv Yaroslavl and Ak Bars Kazan, the series remains equal — 1:1. Both meetings were held in Yaroslavl, and now the confrontation is moving to Kazan, where the third and fourth matches of the finals will take place on May 15 and 17. At the same time, the fate of the trophy has not yet been decided according to their results: the teams are guaranteed to play at least the fifth game, which will be held again in Yaroslavl at the beginning of next week.

May 15, 19:00. May 17, 14:30. Tatneft Arena (Kazan).

Live broadcasts on Match TV, KHL TV and KHL Prime.

Tennis

Men. Masters Tournaments

The next Masters tournament this season is coming up in Rome, the winner of which will receive 1,000 points in his rating of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). The fight for the trophy continues with Russian Daniil Medvedev, who will play in the semifinals with Italian Yannick Sinner. If he wins, he will face Norwegian Kasper Ruud or another Italian Luciano Darderi in the final.

May 15, semifinals: 16:30, Sinner — Medvedev; 21:30, Ruud — Darderi. May 17, 18:30, final. Foro Italico Stadium (Rome, Italy).

Live broadcasts on the ATP website.

Women. Doubles. WTA-1000 Tournament

Russian tennis players Mirra Andreeva and Diana Schneider are competing for the doubles trophy at the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) tournament in Rome this week, a victory in which will bring them 1,000 ranking points. Our tandem has reached the semifinals, where they will play with Australian Storm Hunter and American Jessica Pegula. In the second semi-final, the pair of Cristina Buccia (Spain)/Nicole Melikar-Martinez (USA) will face Katerizhina Sinyakova (Czech Republic)./Taylor Townsend (USA).

May 15, semifinals: 2:30 p.m., Buksha/Melikar-Martinez — Sinyakova/Townsend; 20:00, Hunter/Pegula — Andreeva/Schneider. May 17, 13:00, final. Foro Italico Stadium (Rome, Italy).

Live broadcasts on the WTA website.

Basketball

VTB United League. The semi-finals. The third match. Zenit — UNICS

The semi-final series of the VTB United League continues. Two matches have already been played in each of the confrontations, and both series remain equal — 1:1. This means that teams will need at least five meetings out of a possible seven to determine the participants in the finals. Ahead are the third matches of the series between Zenit St. Petersburg and Kazan UNICS, as well as CSKA Moscow and Krasnodar Lokomotiv Kuban. The next game in St. Petersburg will take place this weekend.

May 17, 13:00, KSK Arena (Saint Petersburg).

Live broadcasts on "Match Country".

Volleyball

Men. The Russian Cup. "The Final Six"

The last major trophy played in the Russian volleyball season is the Russian Men's Cup. Traditionally, the best of the best in this competition are determined based on the results of the "Final Six", which is being held in Moscow this year. The group stage has already passed in the current Final Six. And on the weekend, the semifinals, the third place match and the final will take place, following which the winners will be announced. Dynamo Moscow will play against Lokomotiv Novosibirsk in the first semi-final, while Zenit Kazan and St. Petersburg will meet in the second.

May 16: 16:00, first semi-final; 19:00, second semi-final. May 17: 16:00, third place match; 19:00, final. Dynamo Volleyball Arena (Moscow).

Live broadcasts on Match Arena and Match Planet.