{"id":15265,"date":"2025-07-21T12:18:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/vasek-pospisil-retired-from-tennis-after-18-years-of-professional-career\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:18:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:18:45","slug":"vasek-pospisil-retired-from-tennis-after-18-years-of-professional-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/vasek-pospisil-retired-from-tennis-after-18-years-of-professional-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Vasek Pospisil retired from tennis after 18 years of professional career"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>TORONTO &#8211; Vasek Pospisil, who won the 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;18 years of professional tennis. I look forward to playing in Toronto one last time in front of you,&#8221; Pospisil, 35, posted on social media on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Pospisil is a champion of the tour players and worked with Novak Jjokovic to form the Professional Tennis Players Association. It filed a class action lawsuit in federal court in New York against several groups running the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Pospisil was part of the Canadian team that paired with Jack Sock to win the Wimbledon Championship in 2014 and the Davis Cup title in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The Hard Court Master Event held in Canada awarded Pospisil a wildcard entry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s never easy to make a decision like this,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Tennis has been a huge part of my life, but it has become clear that it&#8217;s a time of deserving a runaway, both mentally and physically.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8211; Vasek Pospisil, who won the 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. &#8220;18 years of professional tennis. I look forward to playing in Toronto one last time in front of you,&#8221; Pospisil, 35, posted on social media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[317,4546,307,474,24,4545,316],"class_list":{"0":"post-15265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-career","9":"tag-pospisil","10":"tag-professional","11":"tag-retired","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-vasek","14":"tag-years"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}