Silence was golden for Hendrik Bode and Ikaika Jobe in Saturday’s Oahu Club Men’s Night Doubles tennis final.

The top-seeded team cruised past third-seeded Chas Okamoto and Alex Aybar 6-3, 6-0 to win the championship. The title, and $600 first-prize check, came after 50 minutes of near silence. The crowd of some 200 was treated to little suspense.

Okamoto and Aybar struggled almost from the start, fighting off two break points on Aybar’s opening service game.

Jobe is the volunteer tennis coach at University of Hawaii and just finished law school. Bode, a former Hawaii Pacific All-American, now coaches the Sea Warriors. They schooled Okamoto and Aybar, dominating on their serve and simply keeping the ball in play the rest of the time.

"I’m not really sure what we did, to be honest," said Bode, who was ranked as high as No. 5 nationally in Division II when he played for HPU. "We played their game a little bit at the beginning, slow and stayed back. At 3-2 in the first set, when we finally broke them, it was the first time we started coming in and being more aggressive. We just kept the points short."

They broke Aybar the second time around — on one passing shot, two errors and a double fault. That was the difference in the opening set, after Bode fought off the one break chance Okamoto and Aybar could muster.

The second set was a disaster for Okamoto, the 2011 state high school champ from Kauai, and Aybar, the University of Arizona’s No. 1 player a decade ago. Okamoto will be a sophomore at UH this fall and played as high as third singles as a freshman.

"We had no rhythm," Aybar said. "Usually our game develops and the points get longer and longer. But they were either hit or miss and most of the time they were hitting in. We couldn’t find anything."

This was the second stop of the second annual Mann Mortgage Triple Crown of Tennis Men’s Doubles Series, and the first tournament Mikael Maatta and Jan Tribler did not win. The former HPU All-Americans swept all three events last year and captured the University of Hawaii title last month.

Tribler was out of town on business this week, so Maatta played with Gregg Takata. They lost to second-seeded Rong Ma and Wei Yu Su in Saturday’s third-place match, 8-5 in a pro set.

Maatta and Tribler will be back together for the $7,500 Blue Moon Men’s Night Doubles at Kailua Racquet Club, July 22-Aug. 4. It is the conclusion of the series, and Maatta and Tribler will defend the KRC title they finally won last year after many close calls.

Each player earns points for wins in the series. The team with the most points after KRC earns a $500 bonus and a wild card entry into January’s $50,000 Honolulu Challenger USTA Pro Circuit event.

Bode and Jobe, who practice with Maata and Tribler often, hope to get a shot at the defending champs.