Last month, it was Teah Chavez in the midst of an impressive winning streak in the NCAA. This time, it is the University of Georgia’s Emma Dong who has been dominating. The Bulldog’s freshman has won her last eight singles matches in a row, all in straight sets. Her last loss came on Feb. 10.
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Dong is 17-5 in singles and 14-6 in doubles in her first year at Georgia. She has been red hot since the start of 2026, going 12-1 in singles, including her current winning streak. She also had a five-match winning streak in doubles that started in mid-February before being broken in mid-March.
The Bulldogs currently sit atop the NCAA women’s Division I rankings.
Chavez herself is showing few signs of slowing down her 2026 pace. The junior for the Ohio State Buckeyes remains a Top 5 player in the NCAA women’s singles rankings as she has only lost two matches since the calendar flipped to 2026, with just one of those losses coming in team competition.
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Chavez entered March on a seven-match winning streak, which she stretched to nine before suffering her first loss since January on Mar. 15 to Jana Hossam Salah of USC. The Canadian bounced back a week later, though, getting back in the win column with a victory over Duke’s Liv Hovde, a four-time singles titlist on the ITF Tour and former Wimbledon junior champion.
Thanks to performances like Chavez’s, Ohio State is currently ranked No. 4 in Division I.
Duncan Chan currently holds the highest ranking of any Canadian competing in the NCAA. The Markhamite, who also currently leads the Road to the NBO on the men’s side, is currently ranking No. 2 in the DI men’s doubles rankings alongside Cosme Rolland De Ravel for TCU. The pair are a perfect 19-0 together since the start of the academic year, with 14 of those wins coming in 2026.
Overall, Chan in 20-2 in doubles this season, with his two losses coming with different partners. His personal 14-match winning streak (all with Rolland De Ravel) was just ended over the weekend when he played alongside Oliver Bonding.
Chan is also the top-ranked Canadian man in singles, coming in at No. 7. Keegan Rice of the University of Virginia is knocking on the door of joining him in the Top 10, currently ranked No. 12. Chavez is the top Canadian woman in singles, while Melodie Collard of Virginia is the top female doubles player from the Great White North. Both Chavez and Collard are ranked fourth in their respective disciplines.
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U Sports: Laval, McGill Duelling for Quebec Dominance
Quebec supremacy is on the line later this week as the university league championships are taking place.
Both the men’s and women’s events are shaping up to be a battle between the Rouge et Or of Université Laval and McGill. The two schools finished as the top two on both sides and will have first-round byes.
Université Laval’s women are the defending champions, both provincially and nationally, and top seeds after an undefeated regular season, where they won nine of 10 matchups, tying once with McGill, who finished second.
On the men’s side, the McGill Redbirds had a perfect regular season, winning all 10 of their matchups. The only school to come within a point of topping McGill’s men during a regular-season meeting was the Rouge et Or, who lost 4-3 both times the two schools faced off.
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The regular-season standings looked eerily similar in both the men’s and women’s divisions. Spots three through six were identical for both, with the Université de Montréal coming third, followed in order by Concordia, Université Sherbrooke, and the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.
Sherbrooke will meet Concordia in both draws for the right to face the top seed, Laval for the women and McGill for the men. The Université de Montréal faces off with Trois-Rivières in the bottom half, with the winner meeting the second seed (McGill for the women, Laval for the men).
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