Giants new man Beskorowany is keen to hit the ground running
loose ball. The Bosnian forced two match points in the deciding set but he put the second, a simple forehand winner, into the net and Zverev survived before going on to register a 6-2 3-6 4-6 7-6 (7/3) 7-5 victory in just under four hours.
Caroline Wozniacki raced into the fourth round of the French Open with a crushing victory over home hope Pauline Parmentier. The feeling among the locals was that Parmentier, the world number 75, had the tools to trouble the second seed.
Instead the 32-year-old found herself facing the dreaded double bagel with Wozniacki up 6-0 5-0 after only an hour.
At deuce Parmentier found a winner to earn a game point and raised her arms in mock celebration. She actually went on to win the next three games, but it was only delaying the inevitable as Dane Wozniacki went through 6-0 6-3.
“I feel pretty good. I think I played some solid tennis, and I’m happy to be through to the fourth round here again,” said Wozniacki.
There was a shock in round three as fourth seed Elina Svitolina tumbled out.
The Ukrainian, twice a quarter-finalist at Roland Garros, went down 6-3 7-5 to Mihaela Buzarnescu of Romania, seeded 31.
“I was off and couldn’t find my rhythm, my game. I was really struggling,” said Svitolina.
“On the other hand, she was playing great tennis. You know, she was really on the ball.”
Wozniacki will face Russian Daria Kasatkina, seeded 14, in the last 16 after she edged past Greece’s Maria Sakkari 6-1 1-6 6-3.
Buzarnescu takes on Madison Keys, the 13th seed from America who beat Japan’s Naomi Osaka 6-1 7-6 (9/7).
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On form: Caroline Wozniacki was happy with her performance
against German 11th seed Julia Goerges on Saturday.
The 36-year-old American is playing her first grand slam since giving birth to her daughter in September.
She said: “Goerges been playing really well and I had actually been watching her play a lot
when I was pregnant, because she’s been winning a lot and they show a lot of her matches.
“Every round for me is just an opportunity to go out there and do the best that I can do, and whether I win or lose, that’s what I’m out here to do in this tournament.” THE Belfast Giants have pulled off a major coup by snapping up goaltender Tyler Beskorowany.
Three weeks after losing Jackson Whistle to the Sheffield Steelers, Giants director of hockey operations Steve Thornton and coach Adam Keefe have moved quickly to complete a deal to keep Beskorowany in the Elite League following the demise of the Edinburgh Capitals.
The 28-year-old former NHL draft pick played 15 games for the Capitals last season.
Keefe has already re-signed Stephen Murphy, who has returned after a long-term injury, but Beskorowany is 10 years his junior and is expected to carry most of the goaltending responsibilities in the new season.
Beskorowany instigated the contact with the Giants after being told that the Capitals were dropping out of the league and he is already planning his preparation for his debut season in Belfast.
“I got in contact with Steve Thornton and Adam Keefe, we were all on the same page with regards to our ambitions moving forward,” said Beskorowany.
“The Giants are a tremendous organisation and a professional one and I could not be happier to move to Belfast.”
“I will start my pre-season training this month so that I will be prepared for training camp in August. I will be ready to go and be in good form to get the season going in Belfast.”
The Ontario-native was drafted by the Dallas Stars 10 years ago, but never quite made the breakthrough into ‘The Show’, playing in the American and East Coast Hockey Leagues before heading to Germany with Dusseldorf and then Nuremberg before joining the Edinburgh Capitals.
Beskorowany’s signing means that Keefe now has nine names on his roster for the new season.
As well as Murphy coming back, defencemen Jim Vandermeer and Mark Garside have resigned and new forward Lewis Hook joins returnees Jonathan Ferland, Dustin Johner, Darcy Murphy and Colin Shields.