we tell you not only about significant events, we introduce you to active, energetic and inspiring people who live in belarus and do everything for its development. belarus can be different, to understand and feel it, you need to see it with your own eyes. hello, dear tv viewers, the belarus 20.4 channel is on the air : watch us every day, because we are making belarus closer. next on the air of the tv channel belarus 1. sports day, with you andrey kozlov. hello. arina sabalenka without difficulty made it to the 1/8 finals of the australian open, the second racket of the world hung.

career due to psychological problems. the statistics of the personal confrontation between the two tennis players are also interesting. so the girls played in official matches five times, and four matches took place on clay, only once at the tournament in rome 2 years ago the belarusian was stronger. we will find out early on sunday morning how the confrontation will end on the courts in melbourne. meanwhile, at the end of the first week of the australian open, in the women's singles, only three of the top 10 remained in the fight tennis players. besides arin, this is the first racket of the world. igor schwiontok, as well as corey gulf. considering the elimination of rybakina, zheber and pigula, do i consider myself the main favorite of the tournament? look, this is tennis, yes, some top players have lost in previous matches and that just goes to show that anything can happen, so i don't want to look that far ahead, i'm just trying to stay focused from match to match if i go out next round, i can take part in another one, if not, then no, i'm just doing my best and trying to prepare for to each. as best as possible from other

results, let us note the victory of sixteen-year-old russian mira andreeva over the 72nd world racket of the french. the girls exchanged victories in the first two sets, both ending with the same score of 6:1 and lasting exactly 32 minutes. pari took the lead in the match, but andreeva fought back, but the third game started very badly for the russian tennis player. andreeva was losing 1:5 and the frenchwoman gave in to the match, but mira made an incredible comeback. another russian woman maria timofeeva, for whose career debut grand slam in the third round match knocked out the tenth-ranked brazilian beatrice hadatmaya, where she was ex-partner victoria azarenka. despite the fact that the girls finished in two sets, this match turned out to be protracted; the tennis players spent their time on the core. timofeeva won it 9:7 and

did not tempt fate in the second set, with the score 5:1 serving for the match, although timofeeva allowed her opponent to make a break, but hadatmaya did not give such a gift again, winning 6:3 from the third match point. next the rival of the young russian woman, ukrainian marta kostyuk. and already today. at night, intercessor may may leave the australian open altogether, if, of course, paired with taylor townsent in the second round doubles match, she loses to our alexandra sosnovich and anna blinkova. another belarusian irina shimanovich will hold a meeting of a similar stage in tandem with elina avanisyan; they will play against kristina bucha and alexandra panova. in the women's singles, we are looking forward to the confrontation between victoria azarenka and jelena ostapenko. to cana reaching the 1/8 finals. in men's singles , the first racket.

also today , andrey rublev, stefanos tsizpas, karen khachanov and yanik siner overcame the third round barrier. the head coach of the soligorsk miner yaroslav chupris, after the crushing success of the miners in the match with dynamo molodechno, assured journalists that he would not let his hockey players relax before the playoffs. and this despite the miners’ leadership in the extraleague standings and long streaks of victories. right now the oligors are in first place. hero of the meeting andryushchenko, who has two goals and one assist. the score seems to be 4:0, but it was a tough match, a fast opponent,

well, we scored, we put up a minority, well done boys, well, there is something to work on. let me remind you that the regular season of the extra league will last until the end. razmus anderson and jonathan hubert, the belarusian forward opens the scoring and brings the lights forward. before the end of the first half

, fleis doubled their lead, but the blue and white. quickly find the answer (2:1) in the second twenty minutes picture of the game changes radically, the guests restore parity right from the start, and then , having hit the opponent’s goal twice more, they confidently take the lead. auston matthews scored a hit trick in the match. even before leaving for the break, andrew magipani reduces the gap to fleis, but the third. the period passes without any goals scored, the final numbers on the scoreboard are 3:4, toronto is stronger. egor shirangovich spent 20 minutes on the ice and finished the match with a utility score of -1. this season belarus has 32 scoring points. calgary

ends its four-game winning streak remains in ninth place in the western conference, having earned 47 points. at the same time, washington won the second. football on friday and saturday, the capital's manege along pobediteley avenue will host a total of five friendly matches using the var system. in fact, what you are seeing on the screens right now is an exam for our referees. the football federation began training referees in december last year. it consisted of three stages: the first

theoretically took place at the academy under the guidance of a serbian instructor international category dalibor dzhudzhevich. after the referee went to the war center of the russian football union, where. have undergone practice on system simulators, now the arbitrators are demonstrating their skills in order to obtain the necessary licenses in the near future. the football gods were favorable to the var team today, so in the match between the petrikovsky miner and the academy students there was an episode with an incorrect handball, where a replay was needed and after which a penalty was awarded against the miners. and there is more. yes, we're lucky with the game, not even with the game, with one moment that once again confirms that the var system is necessary. necessary in football, because these decisions that happened today on the field, they are fateful, that is , they affect the outcome of the match, and the judges are people too, we make mistakes too, these moments, especially

with hands, they can be noticed through it’s very difficult, a visual organizer, after all, the thing is very complicated, in such situations, of course, the help of a var is simply unthinkable. what happens on the field is recorded by eight video cameras, they are like all the necessary equipment for the room, and the bff is renting them for now. if the federation manages to quickly acquire all the necessary equipment, then by the end. next season in the major league we will play matches using the var system. at the initial stage, it is planned to purchase only one system, this will reduce the burden on the budget than if four sets of equipment were purchased at once. this is exactly how many systems are needed to cover championship games. already in march the second group of referees will begin training, we will add that the petrikovsky miner celebrated the victory 3:1. forward of the belarusian national football team dmitry antilevsky signed a contract with the israeli khpl club from haifa.

as part of menchan, it was not kirenko who became the national champion, but was never able to gain a foothold in the main team, although he had a good season in 2022, scoring five goals and giving four assists in 27 matches. nikifarenko is a graduate of mogilev dnepr, from the 14-year-old academy of the football federation of belarus. kirenko will wear number ten. leader of the belarusian men's team anton smolsky will miss the remaining races of the russian cup stage in izhevsk. there will be sprints on saturday. mass start races, information on smolsky was confirmed to us today by the senior coach of the men's

team, roman pavlovich sinichenko. the rest of the main biathletes will compete at the distance as planned. let us note that after a strong performance at the commonwealth cup stage in raobichi, where anton took three golds in three races, his immunity was somewhat weakened. but right now smolsky is already training, but for the competitions, so as not to risk his health, won't come out yet. that's all, sports for now, take care of yourself, see you soon.