Sports weekend with Izvestia

Tennis

The Australian Open. The third and fourth circles

At the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, the first game week is coming to an end, which means that the participants are gradually moving towards the equator of the competition. On the weekend in Melbourne, tennis players will have matches of the third (1/16 finals) and fourth (1/8 finals) rounds of singles. Seven Russians continue to fight for the trophy.: Daniil Medvedev, Andrey Rublev, Karen Khachanov, Mirra Andreeva, Diana Schneider, Anna Kalinskaya and Oksana Selekhmetyeva.

January 23-25, 03:00-13:00. Melbourne Park Stadium (Melbourne, Australia). Live broadcasts on the ATP and WTA websites

Football

The BetBoom Dynamo Global Challenge tournament. Dynamo Moscow — Shanghai Shenhua (China)

Russian football clubs are already actively holding winter training camps, where they are preparing for the spring part of the RPL season. Friendly matches are becoming an important part of the preparation, and Dynamo Moscow has one of the highest quality selections of sparring partners, which will play Chinese teams twice in the coming days as part of the BetBoom Dynamo Global Challenge tournament. The first meeting will take place on January 23rd. In it, the blue and white will face Shanghai Shenhua, led by former Russian national team head coach Leonid Slutsky. Another game against Chengdu Rongcheng will be played early next week, on January 26.

January 23, 17:30. Baniyas Stadium (Abu Dhabi, UAE). Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match Premier

Ski racing

The World Cup. The seventh stage

Russian skiers Daria Nepryaeva and Savely Korostelev received an invitation to the February Olympics in Italy on January 22. And now they will have only one opportunity to test their strength on the eve of the main four—year anniversary starts - this is the seventh stage of the World Cup, which will be held next weekend in Goms, Switzerland. Our only ski racing participants at the 2026 Games have been allowed on the international stage since the end of December and are gradually getting in shape to compete for Olympic medals.

Getting closer to the first: Korostelev almost won his first World Cup medal

Our athlete was always 10 seconds away from the top three

January 23, team sprint, free style: 2:30 p.m., qualification, women; 3:10 p.m., qualification, men; 4:30 p.m., final, women; 5:10 p.m., finals, men. January 24, sprint, freestyle: 12:00 p.m., qualification, women; 12:35 p.m., qualification, men; 14:30-14:50 p.m., quarterfinals, women; 14:55 - 15:15 p.m., quarterfinals, men; 15:25-15:30 p.m., semifinals, women; 15:35-15:40, semifinals, men; 15:45, final, women; 15:50, final, men. Ski Stadium (Goms, Switzerland). Live broadcasts on Okko Sport

Ski racing

The Russian Cup. The seventh stage

Unlike Nepryaeva and Korostelev, the rest of the Russian star skiers are still banned from international competitions. But fans in Syktyvkar, where the seventh stage of the Russian Cup will be held, will be able to see them live next weekend. Three-time Olympic champion Alexander Bolshunov, Olympic medalists Alexander Terentyev and Ivan Yakimushkin, Russian Cup overall leader Sergey Ardashev and many others will take to the track there.

January 23, sprint, classic style: 10:45, qualification, women; 11:15, qualification, men; 13:15-13:39, quarterfinals, women; 13:45-14:09, quarterfinals, men; 14:15-14:21, semifinals, women; 14:27-14:33, semifinals, men; 14:43, final, women; 14:53, final, men. January 24, individual races: 10:30 a.m., women; 1:30 p.m., men. January 25, team sprint, free style: 11:00, qualification, women; 11:30, qualification, men; 12:30, women, final; 13:00, men, final. "Republican ski complex named after Raisa Smetanina (Syktyvkar). Live broadcasts on Match TV, Match! Arena" and "Match! The planet"

Biathlon

The Commonwealth Cup. The fourth stage

In biathlon, unlike skiing, Russians are still far from the first admissions. Therefore, all our stars continue to perform domestically in the Russian Cup, as well as together with banned Belarusians at the Commonwealth Cup, the fourth stage of which will be held at the end of this week in the Raubichi center near Minsk. There we will see a star couple from Belarus — 2018 Olympic champion Dinara Smolskaya and 2022 Olympic silver medalist Anton Smolsky, as well as Olympic medalists from Russia - Kristina Reztsova, Karim Khalili and many others.

January 23, sprint: 12:00 p.m., women; 3:30 p.m., men. January 24, pursuit: 12:00 p.m., women; 3:00 p.m., men. January 25, 13:45, mixed relay race. Sports complex "Raubichi" (Minsk, Belarus). Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match! The planet"

Mixed martial arts

UFC 324

Next weekend, Las Vegas will host the first major UFC tournament in 2026. Our fighters will not be on his main card, but three matches in the prelims will be held with the participation of Russians. In the light heavyweight division, Umar Nurmagomedov will face Brazilian Davison Figueiredo. Andrey Pulyaev will face Cameroonian Ateba Gauthier in the middle category. Nikita Krylov, a light heavyweight, will fight Modestas Bukauskas, a Briton of Lithuanian descent.

January 25: 03:25, Krylov — Bukauskas; 03:50, Gauthier — Pulyaev; 04:15, Nurmagomedov — Figueiredo. T-Mobile Arena (Las Vegas, USA). Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match! The fighter