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Canada · born Vernon, British Columbia, 1990 · right-handed · Wimbledon doubles champion 2014 with Jack Sock in their first event together
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Event together for Pospisil and Sock when they won Wimbledon in 2014
5th
Match point converted against the top-seeded Bryan brothers in the 2014 final
2015
Wimbledon singles quarter-finalist
31
Sets played in six days at Wimbledon 2015 before his quarter-final
4
Career-high doubles ranking, 2015
Vasek Pospisil was born in Vernon, British Columbia, on 23 June 1990. In 1988 his parents and older brothers had escaped Communist Czechoslovakia by driving to Austria, and the family settled in Vernon in 1989. His father coached him from the age of about three; he was homeschooled from seven, and the family moved to Vancouver in 2002 to find better coaching.
He reached No. 25 in singles in 2014 and No. 4 in doubles in 2015, won six tour doubles titles including Wimbledon in 2014 with Jack Sock and Indian Wells in 2015, and reached three tour singles finals. He played for Canada at the London and Rio Olympics and was in the Davis Cup team from 2008, playing 35 ties and earning the name "Mr. Davis Cup"; in 2022 he was part of the side that won Canada's first Davis Cup.
Back trouble was a recurring problem, and he had surgery for a herniated disc in January 2019. With Novak Djokovic he set up the Professional Tennis Players' Association. He announced that 2025 would be his last season and played his final match at the Canadian Open in Toronto on 27 July 2025.
| Wimbledon doubles 2014 final | Unseeded with Jack Sock; beat the top seeds Bob and Mike Bryan 7-6 (7-5), 6-7 (3-7), 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 on Centre Court in 186 minutes, breaking serve in the last game on their fifth match point |
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| Wimbledon singles 2015 | Beat Vincent Millot, Fabio Fognini and James Ward, then Viktor Troicki 4-6, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, his first comeback from two sets down; lost to Andy Murray 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 in the quarter-final |
| Defending the doubles, 2015 | With Sock lost a five-set third-round match to Jamie Murray and John Peers, 6-3, 7-6, 6-7, 3-6, 8-6, on the same Monday as his singles win over Troicki |
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Wimbledon, 2014
Sock lacked the ranking to enter the doubles and needed a partner. He texted Pospisil, whom he barely knew, and who had a bad back and was unsure he could play. They first hit together just before their opening match. "We exchanged some texts," Pospisil said of how the team began.
Source: The Globe and Mail; GrantlandCentre Court, 2014
The press called the pair "Popsock". Sock said: "We had a lot of fun, people could see that." It was the first time either had played on Centre Court.
Source: GrantlandWimbledon, 2015
On the middle Monday he spent nearly every daylight hour on Court 12, coming back from two sets down against Troicki and then losing a five-set doubles with Sock. Before his quarter-final he had played 31 sets in six days. "I felt a little bit heavy-legged as the match was going on," he said after losing to Murray.
Source: Yahoo Sports CanadaToronto, 2025
When he announced his retirement, Tennis Canada's chief executive Gavin Ziv recalled the catchphrase that followed him through his career, that "anything is Pospisil."
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