Canadian tennis player, Vasek Pospisil, was born and raised in Canada, but his mother, father, and two brothers were born In the Czech Republic.
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Pospisil speaks English, Czech, and French.
Pospisil has a career-high world singles ranking of No. 25, and No. 4 in doubles. Along with partner Jack Sock, he won the 2014 Wimbledon Championships and the 2015 Indian Wells Masters men’s doubles titles.
He also reached the quarterfinals in singles at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships.

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At the 2020 US Open, Pospisil reached the fourth round for the first time in his career after beating Philipp Kohlschreiber, 25th seed Milos Raonic in four sets, and then upsetting 8th seed, Roberto Bautista Agut in a five-set thriller. In the fourth round, he lost to Alex de Minaur in straight sets.
In his last tournament of the season 2020 Sofia Open, he entered the main draw unseeded and defeated Illya Marchenko, Jan-Lennard Struff, John Millman and Richard Gasquet en route to his second singles final of the season and third of his career. He would ultimately fall to Jannik Sinner in three back and forth tight sets 4-6, 6-3, 6-7 (3-7).
Pospisil would end the year ranked No. 61 in the world, his highest year-end ranking since 2015, and was named Comeback Player of the Year in the ATP Awards voted on by his peers.


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