Sports weekend with Izvestia

Football

The Russian Championship. CSKA Moscow — Krasnodar

The summer part of the RPL season will end at the end of the week with the seventh round of the championship draw. And on the last day of August, the calendar provided the audience with a match between the two leaders of the current national championship. The current Russian Cup winner CSKA Moscow will host the current national champion Krasnodar. Right now, the Bulls are in first place, and the Army team is second and only one point behind their upcoming opponent.

August 31: 18:00, VEB Arena (Moscow). Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match Premier

Tennis

The US Open. Third and fourth round

The first week of the US Open, the last Grand Slam tournament of the season, the most prestigious series of competitions in world tennis, will end in New York this weekend. The singles matches of the third and fourth rounds will take place on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Based on their results, the first quarterfinalists will be determined by Monday. So far, several Russians are fighting for the trophy.

August 29-31, 00:00 - 02:00; 18:00 - 00:00. Billie Jean King National Tennis Center (New York, USA). Live broadcasts on the ATP and WTA websites

Volleyball

Men. Friendly matches. Russia — Belarus

Due to the suspension from international competitions, the Russian national volleyball team has rarely met in the last three seasons. In early June, she managed to hold a match with Serbia as part of the Channel One Cup, but our team has been meeting mainly with Belarus since 2022, which was also banned. Two such games will be held in the coming days in Odintsovo, Moscow region, where almost all the strongest Russian volleyball players will gather today.

August 29, 19:00. August 30, 16:00. "Volleyball Center" (Odintsovo). Live broadcasts on the Volleyball channel

Hockey

Moscow Mayor's Cup

There is a week left before the start of the new KHL season. Most clubs are already in the final stages of preparing for the regular season. By tradition, one of the main events at the end of the preseason will be the Mayor's Cup exhibition tournament in Moscow, in which all three Moscow clubs — CSKA, Dynamo and Spartak - compete. In addition, Dynamo Minsk, Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod, and the Chinese Shanghai Dragons are competing with them this year, which will play its home matches in St. Petersburg at the SKA Arena. The Moscow Mayor's Cup started on Thursday and will be held until the end of the week.

August 29th: 15:30, Torpedo — Dynamo (Minsk); 19:30, Spartak — Shanghai Dragons. August 30: 14:30, CSKA Moscow — Shanghai Dragons; 18:30, Dynamo Moscow — Dinamo Minsk. August 31: 12:00 p.m., fifth place match; 3:30 p.m., third place match; 7:30 p.m., final. Live broadcasts on KHL TV and KHL Prime

Kayaking and canoeing

Goodwill Cup

This week, Moscow hosts the Goodwill Cup, a traditional competition for the end of August, where the strongest Russian kayakers and canoeists compete. This year, the interest in the event is especially great, as it involves several of our stars who recently won medals at the World Championships in Milan. Among them is Zakhar Petrov, who took two gold medals in Italy, and Ivan Shtyl, who won one victory.

August 29th: 8:55 - 11:50; 14:30 - 17:10. 30 August, 9:25 - 12:15; 15:25 - 18:00. The Moscow Rowing Canal. Live broadcasts on Match TV, Match! Country" and "Match! The planet"