Pospisil, Sock advance in Wimbledon men’s doubles with win over French team

WIMBLEDON, United Kingdom – Vancouver’s Vasek Pospisil and American partner Jack Sock beat French duo Quentin Halys and Tristan Lamasine 7-6, 6-7, 6-4 on Sunday in the men’s doubles tournament at Wimbledon.

They will play Australia’s Lleyton Hewitt and Jordan Thompson in the next round.

Sock won the match with an ace right down the middle, just catching the centre line. Although the French pairing signalled they’d like to challenge, they shook hand with Pospisil and Sock before the ruling had come down that the ace was, in fact, in.

The eighth-seeded Pospisil and Sock won the Wimbledon doubles tournament two years ago.

Also Sunday, Ottawa’s Gaby Dabrowski and Spanish partner Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez topped Eugenie Bouchard of Westmount, Que., and her German partner Sabine Liscicki 6-4, 6-2.

In mixed doubles, Toronto’s Daniel Nestor and Taiwan’s Chia-Jung Chuang lost to Scott Lipsky of the United States and Russia’s Alla Kurdryavtseva 2-6, 6-3, 6-3.