{"id":13554,"date":"2025-07-21T18:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/13554\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:50:10","slug":"vasek-pospisil-retiring-from-tennis-after-18-year-pro-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/13554\/","title":{"rendered":"Vasek Pospisil retiring from tennis after 18-year pro career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 21, 2025, 11:07 AM ET<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO &#8212; <a data-player-guid=\"57fb49bd-cdfa-735a-c39b-e5c2e84d42fb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=1352\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vasek Pospisil<\/a>, who won a Wimbledon men&#8217;s doubles title and helped Canada win the Davis Cup, will retire from tennis after playing in the Toronto tournament next week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eighteen years of professional tennis. Looking forward to playing in front of you one last time in Toronto,&#8221; the 35-year-old Pospisil posted Monday on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Pospisil has been an advocate for players on the tours and joined with <a data-player-guid=\"4a27bb1c-2422-55c3-208b-9e9d8c1f30af\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=296\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> to form the Professional Tennis Players&#8217; Association, which filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court in New York against some of the groups running the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Pospisil paired with <a data-player-guid=\"980ceaa6-16fc-198f-1fcd-398b1a332982\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=1895\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Sock<\/a> to earn a Wimbledon championship in 2014 and was part of the Canadian team that won the Davis Cup title in 2022. Pospisil reached career-high rankings of No. 4 in doubles and No. 25 in singles.<\/p>\n<p>The hard-court Masters event in Canada awarded Pospisil a wild-card entry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s never easy making a decision like this,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Tennis has been a huge part of my life, but it has become clear, both mentally and physically, that it&#8217;s the right time to step away.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 21, 2025, 11:07 AM ET TORONTO &#8212; Vasek Pospisil, who won a Wimbledon men&#8217;s doubles title and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-13554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}