Milos Raonic and Vasek Pospisil have met just a handful of times on the ATP Tour, but their rivalry runs deep.
The two Canadians will face off Thursday in the second round of the U.S. Open in their first Grand Slam match, and just the fourth on the top-tier men's tour.
“I think he won pretty of all them through our junior career, then I won pretty much all of them except the last one through our professional careers.”The all-Canadian matchup comes after all five of the country's singles players advanced to the second round of their respective draws. Montreal's Felix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., also won their men's opening matches, while Leylah Annie Fernandez of Laval, Que.
Raonic, ranked 18th in the world, came into the U.S. Open on a high after advancing to the final of the Western & Southern Open last week at the same venue, where he lost a hard-fought match with top seed Novak Djokovic. “I was pleasantly surprised how I played, because I didn't feel great in practice preparing the last week or so,” Pospisil said after Tuesday's win. “It's always tough coming back after not playing a match for six months or whatever, but overall I'm pretty pleased.”
“I think the opportunity sort of comes from the players that took the appropriate time and the appropriate measures to most maximize the training for the last five months, however long it's been,” he said.
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