Fast 3 Lite 2026 Details

Fast 3 Lite on Sunday June 28th at Beaton Park.

We have 16 teams of two registered.

Here are a few reminders.

• Please arrive from 8am to help set up the tables

• Play will start at 8:30

• Bring your own food and drink, especially for lunch

• There will be no official lunch break in order to get through all the matches

• Spectators are welcome

• Matches will be best of three games with sudden death deuce, hence “Fast”!

• In the morning you will play against a range of standards

• In the afternoon you will play against people of similar standard

• Results will NOT be submitted to Ratings Central due to data entry overheads.

• Presentations of prize money will be at 3:30pm

• Pack down the hall to be out by 4pm

Alan Russell will be the tournament director on the day assisted by Brendan.

Morning: Group stage

Four groups of four teams will play against each other. The groups are formed by the “snake method” using each team’s combined rating to spread the players' levels across all the groups. I.e. each group will have a team from the top four, and the second, third, and fourth four. Each player will play the other two at singles and both play a doubles (i.e. 5 rubbers). All rubbers are played even if one team gets to 3 rubbers early.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Afternoon: Knockout finals

The teams who come first in each group will play off for Division 1, seconds in each group will play off in Division 2 etc. This will be a knockout format with rubbers played just until one team wins three rubbers. Division 1 will also play off for 3rd and 4th to determine prize money. Divisions 2-4 can optionally play for 3rd and 4th.

The committee has decided prize money (donated by late Gary Fisher) will be allocated as follows: