The Experience of a Lifetime
The Canadian University Tennis Championships is an annual event held on-site during the National Bank Open presented by Rogers. The tournament runs in both Toronto and Montreal with the men’s draw alternating cities alongside the ATP event and the women’s draw alternating cities alongside the WTA event. Players receive first class treatment and a variety of additional benefits, including:
- Playing matches on-site during the National Bank Open
- Representing your school while competing against other top universities from across Canada
- Complementary grounds passes for the week as well as a ticket to an evening session at the National Bank Open
- The chance to win a National title for your university
Stay up to date with the most recent results, pictures and more on the Tennis Canada University Athletes Facebook page.
2019 provided another championships to remember as schools from across the country took to the courts at the Sobeys Stadium and IGA Stadium. Check out the results on our tournament portal.
Consult the complete list of past champions.
ALL ABOUT USPORT
Tennis Canada is the national governing body for tennis, who, alongside its regional partners, aims to provide quality competitive opportunities and positive experiences for university tennis players across the country.
USPORTS is nationally recognized for being the governing body of Canadian University sport with their mission being to lead, promote and celebrate university sport by organizing national championships.
USPORTS has accepted tennis as a sport and will be collaborating with Tennis Canada to organize the University-level tennis National Championship and their goals to the development of tennis in Canada. Currently, the Championship is delivered collaboratively between Tennis Canada and its regional partners in conjunction with the Men’s (ATP) and Women’s (WTA) professional Tennis event (the National Bank Open). USPORTS and Tennis Canada have agreed to principles that will govern its partnership development process.
The below chart summarizes the qualification process for each region while the list of universities in Canada with tennis teams or clubs are listed. For more information about university tennis in Canada, click here.
| Timing of Regionals | Qualification Process |
ONTARIO
| Championship: October (3 days in the First week) | – University tennis teams with varsity status are eligible to participate in the OUA sanctioned tennis championship – Winner of the OUA tennis championship advances to Nationals – Teams are seeded based on their results at the previous year’s championship |
Quebec
| Regular Season: November to March Championship: April (Two days in the First week) | – All university tennis teams (varsity or club status) are eligible to participate in the Tennis Quebec university league – Tennis Quebec organizes a full home-and-away regular season for teams – Based on their regular season results, teams are seeded for the Tennis Quebec university league championships – Winner of the Tennis Quebec university league championship advances to Nationals |
Western
| Western Championship: March (Two days in the first week) Prairie Regionals: February (Two days in middle of the month) BC Regionals: February (Two days in middle of the month) | – All university tennis teams (varsity or club status) are eligible to participate in the Western Region university league – Teams in BC compete in the “BC division” and teams in AB, SK and MB compete in the “Prairies division”. – Each division has a round-robin tournament. Divisional tournament winners advance to the Western – Region university championship – Winner of the Western Region university championship advances to Nationals |
Atlantic
| Regular Season: November and January (Three days in the middle of November and two days in the middle of January) Regional Championship: March (Two days in the first week) | – All university tennis teams (varsity or club status) are eligible to participate in the Atlantic University Tennis League (AUTL) – AUTL league convenor organizes a regular season consisting of two round-robin play-down tournaments – Based on their regular season results, top 4 teams advance to the AUTL Championship — Winner of the AUTL Championship advances to Nationals |