Tennis pro Pospisil calls it a career

- By Bruce Penton

August 08, 2025

key points from this story:

• Pospisil retires after National Bank Open
• Canada’s best Western male player
• Reached world No.25 singles ranking
• Won Wimbledon doubles in 2014
• Helped Canada win 2022 Davis Cup
• Post-career plans include junior mentorship

Vasek Pospisil wasn’t the biggest name taking part in this year’s National Bank Open in Toronto, but he was likely the best player to retire at the end of the competition. Pospisil, a 35-year-old from Vernon, B.C., has been the only Western Canadian on the world tennis circuit in recent years. Our country’s best male players—Felix Auger-Aliassime, Denis Shapovalov and Milos Raonic—are all Easterners. Once ranked in men’s singles as high as 25th in the world, Pospisil’s on-court heroics were often surpassed by the three aforementioned Eastern Canada players, and the resulting media coverage was, to say the least, lacking.