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The official draw ceremony was held on Thursday for the U.S. Open, the final Grand Slam event of the season. Six Canadians earned direct entry into the singles draws including Eugenie Bouchard (Westmount, QC), Frank Dancevic (Niagara Falls, ON) Sharon Fichman (Toronto, ON), Vasek Pospisil (Vancouver, BC), Milos Raonic (Thornhill, ON), and Aleksandra Wozniak (Blainville, QC).
The last time Bob and Mike Bryan faced Vasek Pospisil and Jack Sock, the result was a 7-6(5), 6-7(3), 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 thriller won by Pospisil and Sock in last month's Wimbledon final. With the Pospisil-Sock duo still undefeated prior to Sunday and with the Bryans generally considered the best team ever, hype surrounding a rematch was off the charts.
That second set problem Roger Federer had made this a longer match, but it didn't make much difference to the final outcome. David Ferrer just can't solve Federer. In the course of more than a decade of facing his Spanish opponent, Federer has won all sixteen meetings.
Roger Federer took care of Milos Raonic 6-2, 6-3 in the semifinals of the Western & Southern Open on Saturday night. Federer, who made similarly short 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 work of Raonic in the Wimbledon semis, needed just one hour and eight minutes to set up a final showdown against David Ferrer.
For the sixth time in their six career meetings, Milos Raonic (Thornhill, ON) was defeated by the great Roger Federer. The Swiss Maestro defeated Raonic 6-2, 6-3 in the semifinals of the Western and Southern Open on Saturday night in Cincinnati, Ohio. / Pour une sixième fois consécutive, Milos Raonic (Thornhill, ON) a dû s’avouer vaincu face à Roger Federer.
Roger Federer's little lapse in the second set meant that he had to spend more than two hours on the court -- hardly what he wanted after his long week in Toronto. But he survived to keep his lead on Stanislas Wawrinka in the contest for #3.
Roger Federer kicked off his Western & Southern Open campaign on Wednesday afternoon with a 7-6(4), 5-7, 6-2 win over Vasek Pospisil in the second round. Federer struck six aces without double-faulting a single time to advance after two hours and one minute of play.
With Rafael Nadal out of the tournament, this year’s draw was never going to be as nightmarish for Roger Federer as the 2013 version (his No. 5 ranking led him into a quarterfinal clash against Nadal, which the Spaniard won in three sets). It is, however, no walk in the park by any stretch of the imagination.
It was Canada's time to shine in the United States on Sunday, when Milos Raonic battled Vasek Pospisil in the Washington, D.C. final. Now will it be Australia's time to shine in Canada on Monday? Lleyton Hewitt, Bernard Tomic, Marinko Matosevic, and Thanasi Kokkinakis make up a quartet of Australians in action at the Rogers Cup.
We are into the final few weeks leading up to the U.S. Open and almost nobody has more momentum than Milos Raonic and David Goffin. Raonic followed up his Wimbledon semifinal showing with a title on Sunday in Washington, D.C. Goffin is on a streak of 20 consecutive match wins and he captured his first career ATP title on Saturday in Kitzbuhel.
The Canada Masters, better known as the Rogers Cup, begins next week. But Milos Raonic and Vasek Pospisil figured they might as well not wait for their time to shine. The two Canadians are though to what will be the first-ever final between two men from Canada in the history of the ATP World Tour.
Rafael Nadal is out—at least for the next two tournaments—but a strong field will still be on hand for the Rogers Cup in Toronto. Among those back in action for the first time since Wimbledon are Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Stan Wawrinka, and Andy Murray.
One way or another, we were guaranteed a first-time winner here. Not only were both players in their first finals, neither had ever made a semifinal before. David Goffin had three ATP quarterfinals (Chennai 2012, Winston-Salem 2012, Valencia 2012); Dominic Thiem had two (Kitzbuhel and Vienna 2013).
A Wimbledon title can go a long way for a tennis player, even when it comes in a discipline that may not be his favorite. For Vasek Pospisil and Jack Sock, that is exactly what is happening. Singles players by nature, Pospisil and Sock captured the Wimbledon doubles title and they are not looking back.
Take a look at these photos of Pospisil and his life while on tour.
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