Sports weekend with Izvestia

Football

The Russian Championship. Krasnodar — Zenit

After a three-week pause for the national team games, the Russian Championship draw resumes. In the upcoming 10th round, we will face the two strongest RPL teams of recent years. The leader of the standings and the winner of the season before last, Krasnodar, will host the reigning champion Zenit St. Petersburg. The match will largely determine the balance of power in the fight for gold medals.

October 10, 19:30, Ozon Arena (Krasnodar).

Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match Premier.

Tennis

WTA-1000 Tournament

Russian tennis player Mirra Andreeva has come close to winning the "one thousandth" in Beijing. This is the WTA-1000 series tournament, the second in status after the Grand Slam. Andreeva has already reached the semifinals in the Chinese capital, where she will face Czech Nikola Bartunkova. The composition of the second semi—final will be determined in the morning of October 9, Moscow time, based on the results of the last two quarterfinals, in which Chinese Zheng Qingwen will face Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, and Belgian Elise Mertens will face Iga Schwentek from Poland.

In addition, Mertens, in a duet with Russian Diana Schneider, is fighting for victory in a similar tournament in Beijing in doubles. They have already qualified for the semifinals, where they will face Canadian Gabriela Dabrowski and Brazilian Luisa Stefani. The composition of the second doubles semifinal will be determined on October 9, when Czech Katerina Sinyakova and Chinese Zhang Shuai will take the court in the quarterfinals against Australian Storm Hunter and Frenchwoman Kristina Mladenovic, and Xie Shuwei from Chinese Taipei and Latvian Elena Ostapenko against Erin Rutliff from New Zealand and Indonesian Aldila Sutjiadi.

October 9th, quarterfinals:
8:00, Sinyakova/Shuai — Hunter/Mladenovic;
10:00, Qinwen — Svitolina;
14:00, Mertens — Schwentek;
3:30 p.m., Shuway/Ostapenko — Rutliff/Sutjiadi.

October 10, semifinals:
5:00, Mertens/Schneider — Dabrowski/Stephanie;
8:00 a.m., second doubles semifinal;
10:00, Andreeva — Bartunkova;
13:00, the second single semi-final.

October 11:
11:30 a.m., doubles final;
14:00, single final.

National Tennis Center (Beijing, China).

Live broadcasts on the WTA website.

Judo

World championship

The World Judo Championship will end in Baku this weekend. The first in five years in which Russians and Belarusians perform under their own flags. In addition, the tournament is important because it can earn the most ranking points to qualify for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. In the last three days of the week, four more sets of medals will be awarded in individual championships in the two heaviest weight categories for men and women, as well as one set in mixed team competitions.

On October 9, judoka will compete in the women's up to 78 kg category, the only one where Russia is not represented, as well as in the men's up to 100 kg category, where Niyaz Bilyalov and Arman Adamyan will represent us. The next day, Alice Startseva and Maria Ivanova will compete in the over 78 kg category for women, while Valery Endovitsky and two—time world champion Inal Tasoev will compete in the over 100 kg category for men. On October 11, we will have a mixed team competition.

October 9: 9:30 a.m., preliminaries; 5 p.m., final round.

October 10: 10:30, preliminary matches; 17:00, final round.

October 11: 8:30, preliminary matches; 17:00, final round.

National Gymnastics Arena (Baku, Azerbaijan).

Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match Fighter.

Figure skating

Denis Ten Memorial

The next ISU Challenger series tournament with the participation of Russians, the Denis Ten Memorial, is taking place this week in Kazakhstan. Our country is represented there by Dina Khusnutdinova, Maria Zakharova and silver medalist of the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing Alexandra Trusova (Ignatova) in women's singles, Gleb Lutfullin, Vladislav Dikidzhi and participant of the 2026 Olympic Games in Milan Peter Gumennik in men's singles, as well as Vasilisa Kaganovskaya/Maxim Nekrasov, Anna Shcherbakova/Egor Goncharov and Irina Khavronina/David is famous for dancing on ice.

October 9: 3:15 p.m., ice dancing, rhythm dance; 5:30 p.m., women's free skate.

October 10, free skating: 10:00 a.m., ice dancing; 12:30 p.m., men.

Halyk Arena (Alma Ata, Kazakhstan).

Live broadcasts on Channel One.

Hockey

The KHL Regular Season. Metallurg — Salavat Yulaev, Dynamo (Moscow) — CSKA, Dynamo (Moscow) — SKA

There will be a lot of exciting matches in the KHL at the end of this week. According to the status and tournament intrigue, three meetings can be distinguished among them. Metallurg Magnitogorsk, the leader of the regular season, will play its match after the sensational dismissal of head coach Andrei Razin. Magnitogorsk will host Salavat Yulaev Ufa, which is in third place in the Eastern Conference. In the West, Dynamo Moscow, which has lost five matches in a row, will play at home with two army teams — first with CSKA Moscow, which can win its tenth victory in a row, and then with SKA St. Petersburg.

October 9: 17:00, Metallurg Arena (Magnitogorsk); 19:30, VTB Arena (Moscow).

October 11, 17:00, VTB Arena (Moscow).

Live broadcasts on KHL TV, KHL Prime and Kinopoisk.