Only four Canadians have reached the pinnacle of tennis in the modern era.
They have achieved success at the highest level, winning one or more of the sport’s four “Grand Slam” tournaments: Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, the French Open or the Australian Open.
The first was Montreal’s Sébastien Lareau, a U.S. Open men’s doubles winner with American Alex O’Brien in 1999. Toronto’s Daniel Nestor became a national hero with a dozen titles between 2002 and 2014: eight in men’s doubles, four in mixed. Vancouver’s Vasek Pospisil joined the elite group in the summer of 2014, when he and Jack Sock of the …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
