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.
 
2025 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.
 
Ben 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.
 
With the win, the OUA defending champion Blues will face Western Mustangs in tomorrow afternoon's semifinals at 2:30pm.

Toronto 7, McMaster 0
 

Doubles	Toronto	McMaster	Score
MD1	Lucas Mock / Stephen Wong	Hadi Niaz / Tristan Brindley	8–6
MD2	Ben Whitley / Eric Ma	Jacob Lim / Jeffrey Lim	8–6
MD3	Alex Zhang / Edward Kruppe	Christian Krustev / Wyatt Clark	8–6
	Toronto wins the doubles point		1-0

 

Singles	Toronto	McMaster	Score
MS1	Lucas Mock	Hadi Niaz	6–1, 6–3
MS2	Ben Whitley	Jeffrey Lim	6–3, 6–0
MS3	Edward Kruppe	Tristan Brindley	6–0, 6–0
MS4	Ryan Mendoza	Nikhilesh Gohil	6–1, 6–1
MS5	Gabriel Dattels	Cyrus Shobeir	6–0, 6–0
MS6	Luka Kirigin	Jacob Lim	8–5

2026 OUA Men's Tennis Championship
 
Friday, October 9
Quarter-Final #1: No. 3 Queen's vs No. 6 York 4-3
Quarter-Final #2: No. 2 Ottawa vs No. 7 Waterloo 4-3
Quarter-Final #3: No. 1 Toronto vs No. 8 McMaster 7-0
Quarter-Final #4: No. 4 Western vs No. 5 Brock 7-0
 
Saturday, October 10
Consolation Semifinal #1:York vs Waterloo 9:00am
Consolation Semifinal #2: McMaster vs TBD 9:00am
Consolation Final: 11:00am
7^th/8^th: 11:00am
Semifinal #1: Toronto vs Western 2:30pm
Semifinal #2: Queen's vs Ottawa 2:30pm
 
Sunday, October 11
Bronze: 10:30am
Gold: 1:30pm