Vasek Pospisil's U.S. Open came to an abrupt end on Wednesday afternoon. The Vernon, B.C. native fell in straight sets 7-6 6-4 6-4 to to South African Kevin Anderson.
The loss leaves Milos Raonic as the lone Canadian left in the tournament. He will face American Ryan Harrison later Wednesday afternoon.
Eugenie Bouchard lost 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 on Tuesday to 72nd-ranked Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic.
Djoker by default
Novak Djokovic will get a couple of extra days to rest up from his various ailments.
The defending champ moved on to the third round of the U.S. Open when his opponent withdrew before their match Wednesday. The top-ranked Djokovic had faced a potentially tricky matchup with Jiri Vesely, who defeated him last spring in their only meeting.
But a couple of hours before they would have taken the court, Vesely pulled out because of left forearm inflammation.
The left-handed Vesely retired from his last match before the U.S. Open because of problems with the forearm. Vesely and Andrey Kuznetsov were even at 5-5 in the first set of his third match in Winston-Salem when he stopped. Vesely wrote on Instagram afterward that the arm had been bothering him for a couple of days and he would see what the doctors in New York said about it.
In his first-round U.S. Open match Monday, he was pushed to five sets by 117th-ranked qualifier Saketh Myneni, spending nearly 4 hours on court.
Djokovic has been dealing with some arm troubles of his own. He said he hurt his left wrist a few days before the start of the Olympics, where he lost in the first round to Juan Martin del Potro. That injury also kept him from playing at Cincinnati.
Then in Monday's four-set victory over Jerzy Janowicz, Djokovic received treatment on his right arm during the opening set. He repeatedly winced and shook out the arm, his serves far slower than usual.
After dropping a set in his opening match at a major for the first time since 2010, Djokovic didn't want to talk about what was going on with his arm.
Vesely beat Djokovic 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 on clay in Monte Carlo in April. At the time, Djokovic hadn't lost a completed match since November.
Vesely, 23, is currently ranked 49th. He's coming off his best performance at a major, a run to the round of 16 at Wimbledon that included another win over a top-10 player in Dominic Thiem.
Djokovic will face 51st-ranked Guido Pella or No. 61 Mikhail Youzhny in the third round Friday.
Vinci!
2015 U.S. Open runner-up Roberta Vinci cruised into the third round for the sixth straight year.
The seventh-seeded Italian beat American Christina McHale 6-1, 6-3 on Wednesday. Vinci needed just 22 minutes to win the first set.
The 55th-ranked McHale was trying to reach the third round at the U.S. Open for the third time.
Vinci stunned Serena Williams in last year's semifinals to thwart her bid for the first Grand Slam since 1988, then lost to countrywoman Flavia Pennetta in the final.
Vasek Pospisil ousted from U.S. Open
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