John,
Whist Schedules are for pairs of players, not one-against-one. Below is the 8 player schedule. A lot of the formatting has been lost as I have just pasted in the details from Richard's Whist page, but the first two columns with pairs of numbers are the pairs that play against each other on Table 1/Court 1 and the last two columns are the players that play on Table 2/Court 2.
Whist tournament schedule for 8 players
8 player
schedule | Table 1 | | Table 2 | |
| Pair 1 | Pair 2 | Pair 3 | Pair 4 |
| Round 1 | 8,1 | 2,6 | 3,4 | 5,7 |
| Round 2 | 8,2 | 3,7 | 4,5 | 6,1 |
| Round 3 | 8,3 | 4,1 | 5,6 | 7,2 |
| Round 4 | 8,4 | 5,2 | 6,7 | 1,3 |
| Round 5 | 8,5 | 6,3 | 7,1 | 2,4 |
| Round 6 | 8,6 | 7,4 | 1,2 | 3,5 |
| Round 7 | 8,7 | 1,5 | 2,3 | 4,6 |
Note: Whist schedules are for pairs of pairs.
Looking down the tables -- at the end of the tournament each player has been paired once with each player and opposed each player twice.
