Junior Career
Pospisil reached the final of his first ever junior International Tennis Federation event, the 2005 Canadian U18 ITF World Ranking Event, to compatriot Graeme Kassautzki. He and Kassautzki won the doubles event. Partnering another star junior Canadian, Milos Raonic, Pospisil won his second doubles title in December 2006, the Prince Cup in the United States. He also won back-to-back doubles titles in the Czech Republic in January–February, 2007, as well as the Guru Cup in Italy in April–May.
In singles, Pospisil won the ITF Flevoland Junior Championships in Holland in February, the 25th All-Canadian ITF Junior Championships in April, and the Canadian U18 ITF World Ranking Event, the last one without losing more than four games in any set.
Pospisil won two more European events that summer in doubles and was finalist three more times. He capped his summer off by reaching the 2007 U.S. Open Boys' doubles final partnering Grigor Dimitrov. The pair lost to Jonathan Eysseric and Jérôme Inzerillo. In December, he and partner Roman Jebavý won the doubles event at the prestigious Orange Bowl.
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