The University of Toronto Varsity Blues women's tennis team placed third overall at the Canadian University Tennis Championships on Saturday at Parc Saint-Victor in Laval, Quebec.
 
The Blues blanked the Dalhousie Tigers, 7-0, in the bronze-medal match on Saturday.
 
The Varsity Blues swept all three doubles matches and didn't drop a single set in singles en route to their second bronze and third all-time medal at the national championship.
 
Winnie Wing Yee Choi and Kaira Xuan picked up an 8-6 win in doubles, while the teams of Anastasiya Dyadchenko and Maria Popova, and Linda Lee and Felina Ziyan Yang, recorded victories respectively.
 
In singles, Toronto cruised to six straight-set wins, including commanding performances from Dyadchenko, Závišková, Vanasse Wilbert, Yang, Aboosaidi, and Lee. The Blues won all 15 sets and 96 of 121 total games in the match.
 
Toronto opened the championships with a narrow 5-2 loss the to reigning champion Alberta Pandas in semifinal action on Thursday.
 
Toronto pushed Alberta to the brink in doubles, but the Pandas emerged with three tight victories. Alexandra Jewitt and Emma Rutherford took the opening doubles match in a tiebreak, 8-7(2) over Toronto's Winnie Choi and Kaira Xuan, while Emily Granson and Sonia Skobkareva won 8-6 over Anastasiya Dyadchenko and Maria Popova. The Pandas' Marena Diaz Nakagawa and Sandra Taskovic edged the Toronto pair Felina Ziyan Yang and Barbora Závišková 8-6 to secure the doubles sweep.

In singles, Rutherford gave Alberta a 2-0 lead with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Winnie Choi. In the second singles match, Dyadchenko kept Toronto's gold medal hopes alive with a 6-3, 7-5 victory over Granson, but the Pandas responded with three straight wins from Jewitt, Skobkareva and Diaz Nakagawa to clinch the victory.

Toronto's Noelle Vanasse Wilbert picked up the Varsity Blues second point of the day with a straight-sets win (6-3, 6-3) over Taskovic in the final singles match.

Individual awards
 
All Star Team :

• Emma Rutherford (University of Alberta)
• Alexandra Jewitt (University of Alberta)
• Marie-Laurence Denis (Université Laval)
• Maya Thabet (Université Laval)
• Anastasiya Dyadchenko (University of Toronto)
• Anna Nicolela (Dalhousie University)

 
Most Valuable Player

• Emma Rutherford (University of Alberta)

 
Rookie of the year

• Minnie Kim (Université Laval)

 
Fair Play Award

• Erica Di Battista (Université Laval)

 
Coach of the year

• Jacques Bordeleau, Christian Gingras and Kelly Georges (Université Laval)