Two Canadians have announced that the 2025 National Bank Open will be their last professional tennis tournament. According to Yasmin Syed of the Express on Tuesday, Eugenie Bouchard of Montreal, Quebec is retiring after the 2025 National Bank Open in Montreal. According to Rogers Sportsnet on Monday, Vasek Pospisil of Vernon, British Columbia is also retiring after the 2025 National Bank Open in Toronto. Bouchard is 31 years old, and Pospisil is 35 years old.
Both Bouchard and Pospisil made noise at Wimbledon in their careers. Bouchard reached the Wimbledon final in 2014 before losing to Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-0. Pospisil, meanwhile, made the quarterfinals of Wimbledon in 2015, before losing to Andy Murray of Great Britain, 6-4, 7-5, 6-4. Pospisil won the Wimbledon men’s doubles title in 2014 with American Jack Sock. Pospisil and Sock defeated the number one seeds, Bob and Mike Bryan of the United States, 7-6, 6-7, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5.
Bouchard had a magical 2014 tennis season. She also reached the semifinals of the 2014 French Open, the semifinals of the 2014 Australian Open, and won her only WTA title by beating Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 in the final of the 2014 Nuremberg Cup in Germany. In 2013 and 2014, Bouchard won back-to-back Bobbie Rosenfeld Awards as the top Canadian female athlete. In 2013, Bouchard was the WTA Newcomer of the Year, as she reached the third round of Wimbledon, was ranked 32nd in the world, and reached the final of the Japan Women’s Open before losing to Samantha Stosur of Australia, 3-6, 7-5, 6-2. In 2014, Bouchard was named the WTA Most Improved Player, and reached number five in the World Rankings.
Pospisil reached as high as number 25 in the world in January of 2014. He reached three ATP finals, but lost each time. He was beaten by fellow Canadian Milos Ranoic of Thornhill, Ontario in the final of Washington in 2014, 6-1, 6-4, beaten by Gael Monfils of France in the final of Montpellier in 2020, 7-5, 6-3, and was beaten by Jannik Sinner of Italy, in the final of Bulgaria in 2020, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6.
