The PopSock band is back together. Vasek Pospisil and Jack Sock, who took the doubles world by storm from 2014 to 2016, are teaming up for next month’s Masters 1000 events in Indian Wells and Miami.
They won Wimbledon in 2014 as an unseeded duo, reached two Indian Wells finals (including the title in 2015), lifted the Beijing trophy also in 2015, and reached four other Masters 1000 finals. A split in 2016 was due mostly to Pospisil’s drop in the singles rankings, forcing him to play a different schedule.
Although the Canadian and American are not ranked high enough for automatic entry, they will obviously get wild cards in Indian Wells, Miami, and likely at any other tournament they desire.
The Pospisil-Sock comeback is hardly the only news from this week’s release of the Indian Wells doubles entry list. As always, this event more than any other brings out the stars to the doubles court. Rafael Nadal has signed up with Marc Lopez, while Novak Djokovic and Viktor Troicki are throwing their hat into the ring.
Indian Wells doubles entry list
MAIN DRAW:
Cabal/Farah
Ram/Salisbury
Kubot/Melo
Dodig/Polasek
Granollers/Zeballos
Herbert/Mahut
Wawrinka/A.Zverev
Goffin/Schwartzman
Krawietz/Mies
Dimitrov/Thiem
Auger-Aliassime/Fognini
Khachanov/Rublev
Klaasen/Marach
Bautista Agut/de Minaur
Koolhof/Mektic
Pavic/Soares
Rojer/Tecau
Carreno Busta/Garin
Peers/Venus
Mannarino/Monfils
Hurkacz/Paire
Melzer/Roger-Vasselin
Bryan/Bryan
ALTERNATES:
Bopanna/Shapovalov
J.Murray/N.Skupski
Chardy/Martin
Demoliner/Medvedev
Krajinovic/Lajovic
Evans/Kyrgios
Isner/Querrey
Raonic/Skugor
Kontinen/Struff
Cuevas/Tsitsipas
S.Gonzalez/Pella
Pospisil/Sock
Bambridge/McLachlan
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