It didn't take long for the season favorite and CL champions Zenit Kazan to close the series for the Russian Superliga 2011/2012 title.

The semifinal series in both men's and women's Russian Superligas haven't produce major surprises as most of the experts were predicting double Kazan-Moscow rivalry in the finals.

It is semifinals time in men’s and women’s Russian Superleague. The top-4 teams of the regular season disputing the tickets to the final and the games are exciting and high-class.

Out of three quarterfinal series in Russian Superliga, experts were least expecting some fight in a clash of a clear championship favorite Zenit Kazan and surprise team of this year’s playoff Gazprom-Yugra Surgut.

First 3 games of Russian Superliga quarterfinals haven’t brought any surprises as clear favorites in each series achieved convincing home victories 3-0 (Zenit Kazan beat Gazprom-Yugra, Iskra Odintsovo bt Dinamo Krasnodar and Dinamo Moscow bt Lokomotiv Kharkov).