UEFA Cup winners Zenit St Petersburg were fined 37,000 euros ($57,980) on Thursday for racist behaviour by their fans during their match against French side Olympique Marseille last season, UEFA said.

“Our disciplinary committee fined Zenit for racist conduct by their fans, the use of pyrotechnics and the display of a political banner during their match against Marseille,” a spokesman for European soccer’s governing body said.

The Russian side, who booked a place in the quarter-finals after winning the second leg against Marseille 2-0 in Russia on March 12, have three days to appeal, the UEFA spokesman added.

Sept. 29—Players report to their teams no earlier than 11 a.m. local time.

Sept. 30—Training camps open.

Oct. 9-17—NBA Europe Live exhibition games.

Oct. 24—Preseason ends.

Oct. 27—Rosters set for opening day, 6 p.m. EDT.

Oct. 28—Start of the 2008-09 regular season.

Jan. 5—10-day contracts may now be signed.

Jan. 10—All player contracts are guaranteed for the remainder of the season.

Feb. 15—All-Star game (Phoenix).

Feb. 19—Trading deadline, 3 p.m. EST.

April 26—Early entry eligibility deadline, 11:59 p.m. EDT.

June 18—NBA draft early entry entrant withdrawal deadline.

June 25—NBA draft (New York).

Jelena Jankovic will replace fellow Serb Ana Ivanovic as world number one on Aug. 11, the WTA said on Saturday.

With no tournaments taking place next week ahead of the Beijing Olympics, Jankovic will end Ivanovic’s nine-week reign when the WTA governing body’s computer drops the points from the events played in the same week one year ago.

Jankovic is projected to total 3,620 points on Aug. 11 with Ivanovic on 3,612 and will become the 18th player to hold the number one ranking.

“Since I was a young girl it has been my dream to become number one in the world,” Jankovic told the WTA website (www.sonyericssonwtatour.com).

“When you get older at least one day you can say you were number one and no one can take that away from you.”

Over the last two weeks Jankovic had squandered chances to take over the top ranking on the court.

Her bid to become number one last week at the Los Angeles Classic ended with a loss to Dinara Safina in the semi-finals and it was short-circuited again at the Montreal Cup on Friday with a quarter-final upset by Slovakia’s Dominika Cibulkova.

Jankovic’s only title in the last 12 months came in Rome but she has posted consistently strong results.

She has reached finals in Toronto and Beijing in 2007 and Miami this year plus six semi-finals including two of the three Grand Slams so far in 2008—the Australian and French Opens.

Czech goalkeeper Jan Lastuvka has been loaned by Ukrainian first division side Shakhtar Donetsk to West Ham for a season, the CTK news agency reported on Monday.

Lastuvka, 26, will cover for Robert Green at the Premier League club.

Lastuvka, who previously played for English side Fulham, had also been targeted by Czech sides Sparta Prague and Banik Ostrava and Austrian outfit Salzburg, CTK reported.