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The University of Toronto Varsity Blues men’s tennis team opened the 2026 OUA championship with a dominant 7-0 victory over the McMaster Marauders on Friday afternoon (Oct. 9) at Mayfair East.
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\n2025 OUA rookie of the year Lucas Mock led the Blues. He, along with Stephen Wong, won the No. 1 doubles match, 8-6, while Mock handily defeated McMaster’s Hadi Niaz 6-1, 6-3 in the No. 1 singles match.
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\nBen Whitley had an equally impressive day. He and Eric Ma took the No. 2 doubles match, 8-6, while Whitely also won the No. 2 singles match 6-3, 6-0 against McMaster’s Jeffrey Lim.
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\nWith the win, the OUA defending champion Blues will face the winner of Western and Brock in tomorrow afternoon’s semifinals at 2:30pm.<\/p>\n
Toronto 7, McMaster 0
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\n\t\t\tLucas Mock \/ Stephen Wong
\n\t\t\tHadi Niaz \/ Tristan Brindley
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\n\t\t\tBen Whitley \/ Eric Ma
\n\t\t\tJacob Lim \/ Jeffrey Lim
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\n\t\t\tAlex Zhang \/ Edward Kruppe
\n\t\t\tChristian Krustev \/ Wyatt Clark
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\n\t\t\tLucas Mock
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\n\t\t\tRyan Mendoza
\n\t\t\tNikhilesh Gohil
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\n\t\t\tGabriel Dattels
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\n\t\t\tLuka Kirigin
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2026 OUA Men’s Tennis Championship
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\nFriday, October 9
\nQuarter-Final #1: No. 3 Queen’s vs No. 6 York 4-3
\nQuarter-Final #2: No. 2 Ottawa vs No. 7 Waterloo 4-3
\nQuarter-Final #3: No. 1 Toronto vs No. 8 McMaster 7-0
\nQuarter-Final #4: No. 4 Western vs No. 5 Brock
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\nSaturday, October 10
\nConsolation Semifinal #1:York vs Waterloo 9:00am
\nConsolation Semifinal #2: McMaster vs TBD 9:00am
\nConsolation Final: 11:00am
\n7th\/8th: 11:00am
\nSemifinal #1: Toronto vs TBD 2:30pm
\nSemifinal #2: Queen’s vs Ottawa 2:30pm
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\nSunday, October 11
\nBronze: 10:30am
\nGold: 1:30pm
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