How Can a Mixed Doubles Tournament Avoid Family Pairings?

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The Bunalong Tennis Club's mixed doubles tournament, referred to as a TWT, requires that players do not partner or compete against their family members. Each player competes against every opposite-gender participant, excluding their family member, and partners with every opposite-gender participant once. The challenge is to find all possible TWT arrangements for four families, ensuring compliance with these rules. An initial arrangement has been provided, but further exploration is needed to determine if additional unique TWTs exist beyond simple rearrangements.

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Homework Statement


The Bunalong Tennis Club is running a mixed doubles tournament for families from the district. Families enter one female and one male into the tournament. When the tournament is arranged, the payers discover the twist; they never partner or play against their own family member.

The tournament, called a TWT, is arranged so that;

1. each player plays against every person of the opposite gender, except for his or her family member, exactly once.

2. Each player plays against every person of the same gender exactly once

3. Each player partners every person of the opposite gender, except for his or her family member, exactly once.

Using the notation M1 and F1 for the male and female for family 1, M2 and F2 for family 2, and so on. An example of an allowable match is M1 F3 v.s. M6 F4.

find all TWTs for four families


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The Attempt at a Solution


i already have one TWT thus far;
M1F4 vs M2F3
M3F2 vs M4F1
M1F3 vs M4F2
M2F4 vs M3F1
M1F2 vs M3F4
M2F1 vs M4F3
I'm not quite sure what to do now, and whether all of the other TWTS will basically just be rearrangements of this one, since they all play each other once, partner each other once etc, or whether they'll play different people with different partners, yet still satisfying the rules.
 
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Consider the match in which M1 partners F2. Who are the possible opposing pairs?
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