Vasek Pospisil

Pospisil and Ramirez into Doubles Final

January 24, 2008

Vasek Pospisil (Vernon, BC) is very close to being only the third Canadian ever to win a title at the Australian Open Junior Championships. The 17 year-old and Mexican partner Cesar Ramirez have reached the final of the boys’ doubles competition in Melbourne.

The pair has had a relatively easy road thus far having to face only one seeded opponent and dropping only one set. Their biggest challenge was getting past Milos Raonic (Bragg Creek, Alberta) and Bradley Klahn (USA). Raonic and Klahn won the first set of that match but Pospisil and Ramirez were able to come back and take the second set and the super-tiebreak.

In the quarter-finals the No.2 seeded Pospisil and Ramirez faced the No.6 seeds Soong-Jae Cho of Korea and American Ty D. Trombetta. They were no match for Pospisil and Ramirez as Cho and Trombetta were handed a 6-3, 6-2 defeat. They then had to face unseeded Chinese team Di Wu and Ze Zhang. Wu and Zhang eliminated the No.3 seeds Hiroki Moriya and Bernard Tomic in the quarter-finals so Pospisil and Ramirez had to be wary of them. The match was very back-and-forth but Pospisil and Ramirez managed to pull it out 6-4, 6-4 to reach the final.

The final puts them up against another unseeded team from Taiwan, Cheng Peng Hsieh and Tsung-Hua Yang, who are not to be taken lightly. Not only have Hsieh and Yang eliminated two top-seeded teams in the draw already but they also defeated Pospisil and Ramirez in the quarter-finals of the doubles competition at the ITF Grade I event in Nottinghill before the Junior Australian Open. Pospisil and Ramirez will have to continue playing their best tennis to ensure that they are not upset by the same team in consecutive tournaments.