Plushenko, Slutskaya win Grand Prix Finals
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World champion Evgeni Plushenko and former world champion Irina Slutskaya regained Grand Prix Final titles Saturday while a Chinese pair won before home fans.
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Top-seeded Maria Sharapova pounded unseeded Anne &quot;Kosmo&quot; Kremer of Luxembourg 6-0, 6-2 Saturday to advance to the final at the WTA stop at Seoul.
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Russia beat France 3-2 in a dramatic final to win the Fed Cup for the first time.
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Albert Demtchenko of Russia won the men's singles Sunday to break up a sweep by the powerful German team of all five races at a Luge World Cup event.
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Svetlana Kuznetsova defeated Russian compatriot Elena Dementieva 6-3, 7-5 on Saturday to capture the US Open title, in her first Grand Slam finals appearance.
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Amelie Mauresmo safeguarded her number one ranking for another week when she beat fourth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova 7-5 6-4 to reach the final of the Filderstadt Grand Prix tennis tournament on Saturday.
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Dmitry Tursunov beats American Andy Roddick to send Russia into the Davis Cup final.
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Nikolay Davydenko beat Greg Rusedski of Britain, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5, in a tightly contested Kremlin Cup final Sunday to win his first Moscow title.
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Elena Dementieva outlasted Jennifer Capriati 6-0, 2-6, 7-6 (5) to set up all-Russian women&#39;s final at the US Open. Earlier, Svetlana Kuznetsova became the first Russian woman to reach the Open final when she beat a limping Lindsay Davenport 1-6, 6-2, 6-4.
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Olympic silver medalist and 2002 world champion Irina Slutskaya presented an almost flawless program to take the lead after the short program at the Cup of Russia on Friday.
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Russians shone in the Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final 2004/2005 with former world champion Irina Slutskaya won the women&#39;s singles title.
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TURIN, Italy  - Champion Brian Joubert set the  scene for an enthralling men's competition after he established  a slim lead over three-times former winner Yevgeny Plushenko in  the European figure skating championships on Wednesday.
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Lokomotiv Moscow clinched the Russian title on the final day of the premier league season with a 2-0 win at Shinnik Yaroslavl on Friday.
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Serena Williams of the United States reached the final of the WTA Championship Sunday by beatingAmelie Mauresmo 4-6, 7-6 (7-2), 6-4 in the semifinals in Los Angeles.
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Although top-seeded Russian Marat Safin couldn&#39;t deliver, the hometown fans at the ATP stop in St. Petersburg got a homie in the final Saturday when No.
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Svetlana Kuznetsova powered to her  first grand slam title by beating fellow Russian Elena  Dementieva 6-3, 7-5 in the final of the U.S. Open at Flushing  Meadows Saturday.
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In-form Svetlana Kuznetsova won the battle of Russia&#39;s grand slam champions to book her place in the final of the China Open on Saturday.