Dutch Open 2024

Each event will comprise round robin group games followed by a knock out competition.

Qualification for the knockout round will depend on where you finish in your group table.

Please make sure that you have checked the knockout match schedule for your event before leaving the venue (we have had people leave who thought they hadn’t qualified when they had). And please remember that if you are through to the semi finals and you lose, there is still the bronze medal match to play.

Table results will be sorted by number of wins, points difference, points scored and if there is still a tie then head to head.

A defined number of teams will go through to the knockout or single elimination rounds.

The first named team is responsible for picking up the score sheet from the tournament desk.

The score sheet provided to teams will define whether the game is played to 11 or 15 or 2 games won till 11 out of 3.

The winning team is responsible for entering the score on the score sheet correctly and getting both team’s signatures to agree the score is entered correctly.

In the round robin matches there will be no time outs allowed. In the knockout rounds, each team is allowed a 1 minute time out per game. In the event of a medical time out, 15 minutes maximum are allowed before the team calling the time out forfeits.

20 minutes of court time is allocated for all games to 11 points; 30 minutes are allocated for matches to 15 points;

40 minutes for matches in which the winner is determined by the best of 3 matches to 11 points

Court times include a maximum of 2 minutes of warm up is allowed before a game starts if required AND the schedule is not running late.

Any team not arriving on your playing court within 10 minutes of their game’s start time may forfeit the match.

In the event of a team withdrawing from the competition, all of the team’s games will be taken out of the table results.