Following his wonderful run at Wimbledon that landed him on the front pages of newspapers across Canada, Vasek Pospisil has hit a bump in the road.
Doctors have told him to take two to three weeks off because of a severe bone bruise to his right wrist.
That means Pospisil will miss Canada’s Davis Cup tie with Belgium, which begins July 17.
It also means that Canada will be without its top two tennis players in the best-of-five tie.
Canada’s No. 1 player, Milos Raonic, announced earlier this week that he will be unavailable to play against Belgium as he recovers from nerve damage to his right foot.
Raonic had surgery in May and missed the French Open.
Both players say they will be ready to play at the Rogers Cup in Montreal in August.
Pospisil made it to the quarter-finals in singles and the third round in doubles at Wimbledon.
In one other Canadian tennis note, Daniel Nestor and his French partner, Kristina Mladenovic, were eliminated in the quarter-finals of the mixed doubles on Thursday at Wimbledon.
Nestor and Mladenovic, who won the mixed at Wimbledon in 2013 and the Australian Open in 2014, lost 7-6(2), 6-2 to the team of Mike Bryan and Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the United States.
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