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<\/p>\n Retirements
\n Pospisil retires following emotional final match in Toronto<\/p>\n
Nestor, Dancevic pay tribute to Canadian great<\/p>\n
July 28, 2025<\/p>\n
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Andrew Eichenholz\/ATP Tour<\/p>\n
Vasek Pospisil celebrates his retirement after his match against Facundo Bagnis on Sunday evening in Toronto.
\n By Andrew Eichenholz<\/p>\n
If a picture is worth a thousand words, the smile on Vasek Pospisil<\/a>\u2019s face twelve years ago in Montreal was worth a million. The Canadian had just defeated Top 10 star Tomas Berdych<\/a> in a tight final-set tie-break in the third round of his home ATP Masters 1000 event and appeared not just ecstatic, but in disbelief.<\/p>\n \u201cI don’t really know what’s going on now,\u201d Pospisil said at the time. \u201cRight now it’s okay. It was pretty emotional, I mean, just the hard work that I’ve put in. To have my first Top\u201110 win here, in front of that crowd, was extremely emotional. I was having difficulty controlling it.\u201d<\/p>\n It is fitting that more than a decade after announcing his arrival on the ATP Tour with a semi-final run at the National Bank Open Presented by Rogers<\/a>, Pospisil brought his career to a close at the same tournament on Sunday in Toronto, when he fell to Facundo Bagnis<\/a> in front of an adoring crowd.<\/p>\n It was a special celebration of the 35-year-old\u2019s career in front of his home fans, one more opportunity for the Canadian to perform for his family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n “It’s just [been] an incredible journey. I’m so grateful, honestly, [for] the career I’ve had, the opportunities the sport has given me, the people I’ve met along the way that are friends for life,” Pospisil said during a ceremony after the match. “Coming from a small town in B.C., it felt like a bit of a pipe dream back then and it just felt like a completely different world. One thing leads to another and you start improving and playing some small tournaments, bigger tournaments and suddenly you’re here.<\/p>\n “It’s easy to lose perspective sometimes that this is truly a dream come true for me.”<\/p>\n Pospisil played in qualifying at a tour-level event here in Toronto in 2008 as an 18-year-old and has created plenty of memories in his career since. In 2014 he won his first tour-level doubles title at Wimbledon<\/a> alongside Jack Sock<\/a>, and in 2022 he helped Canada to Davis Cup glory after more than a decade competing for his country.<\/p>\n \u201cThird one I would say my breakthrough event in Montreal at the Masters,\u201d Pospisil said Saturday during his pre-tournament press conference. \u201cThat was just such a crazy emotional week for me and like I said it was my breakthrough. That was my first real big result on the big stage and when you do something for the first time like that, it sticks with you a little bit longer. There are more emotions that are involved in a moment like that.\u201d<\/p>\n Former doubles World No. 1 Daniel Nestor<\/a> watched Pospisil grow throughout his career, from a rising junior to someone who shared the court with him at some of the world\u2019s biggest events. They even reached the bronze-medal match together at the Rio Olympics in 2016.<\/p>\n \u201cI remember when he first came on our Davis Cup team when he was 16, 17 and he was a little bit green and he was just so excited to be there, always had a really great attitude,\u201d Nestor said. \u201cI saw him go from that to carrying Canada into the World Group against Israel, which I think was his coming-out moment and then basically won the whole tie\u2026 <\/p>\n \u201cI consider him Canada\u2019s best all-around player because he\u2019s had success in singles, Top 30. In doubles he got to the Top 5 and won Wimbledon<\/a>. It was impressive.\u201d<\/p>\n
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