Arnoud Sengers

Arnoldus Antonius Sengers

Arnoud Sengers at the 1930 three- cushion world championship in Amsterdam
Personal details
birthday	August 10, 1887
place of birth	Gestel NetherlandsNetherlands
date of death	July 1, 1970
Place of death	Rotterdam NetherlandsNetherlands
nationality	Netherlands Netherlands
Nickname (s)	Arnoud
Active time	Late 1920s to late 1940s
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
World Championships:
s. successes
Other tournaments:
7 × Dutch champion
Societies)
BV Rotterdam Netherlands

Arnoldus Antonius "Arnoud" Sengers , often abbreviated: AA Sengers , (born August 10, 1887 Gestel , Netherlands ; † July 1, 1970 Rotterdam ) was a Dutch carom player in the three- cushion discipline and sports official.

Career

National

As an amateur player, Sengers had a regular job, so he didn't have much time for training. So, quite common for that time, he was only rewarded with a title at national championships at the age of 41. From 1928 to 1942, Sengers consistently earned a podium place in the Dutch three-cushion championship , initially four times vice-champion and two times bronze, before he received the first of seven gold medals as national three-cushion champion in 1934. Until 1933 he always had to admit defeat to the old master and serial winner Henk Robijns .

International

In 1929 Sengers took part in the Second Three Cushion World Championship in Brussels and immediately won bronze behind last year's winner Edmond Soussa from Egypt and the Belgian Emile Zaman . In the following year his second participation , in Amsterdam in front of a home audience. Again, his rival Robijns was unbeatable, he also defeated last year's winner Soussa. After the regular games, Robijns, Soussa, Sengers and Zaman were tied 10: 4. At the time, so-called "stabbing games" were common in order to get a clear placement, this went, again with a tie, 4: 2 for Robijns, Soussa and Sengers. In order not to have to carry out further stitch games, the placement was based on the general averages (GD) of the stitch games and so Sengers only came third again.

The next world championship took place in Barcelona . The local hero Enrique Miró won with 12: 2, ahead of Soussa (10: 4), Sengers with 8: 6 behind. He skipped the World Championships in 1932 in Vichy, France, and in Cairo in 1933 and did not take part again until 1934, again in Barcelona. Again a local player won Claudio Puigvert, ahead of Jacques Davin from France and his compatriot Jean Marty . The following tournaments in Algiers in 1935 and New York in 1936 he left out again. In Cologne in 1937 , when the Simonis billiard cloth factory had provided its own cloth especially for three-cushion play for the first time, he won his fourth and last bronze medal, behind Alfred Lagache from France and August Tiedtke from Düsseldorf . It was also his last participation in world championships.

Shortly before the outbreak of war, he took part in the last pre-war three-cushion European championship in 1939 , which was held in Angoulême, France, at the end of June and beginning of July, but only achieved 4th place behind Lagache, Arie Bos and Alfredo Ferraz. After the war, Sengers was now 60 years old, his last international tournament participation at the three-cushion European championship in Brussels in 1947 , where he came in last (8th) place.

In the more than 20 years of his career, Sengers collected a total of 21 medals at national and international championships.

Sports official

From 1929 to 1958 he was chairman of the BV Rotterdam billiards club. In 1948 Sengers worked as a national arbitrator for the Koninklijke Nederlandse Biljartbond (KNBB).

successes

Three-cushion world championship : 1929, 1930, 1931, 1937
Dutch three-cushion championship : 1934, 1936, 1937, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1947, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1933, 1935, 1938, 1939, 1944, 1930, 1932

Swell:

Web links

Commons : Arnoud Sengers - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 800-806 .
^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 867-870 .
↑ player profile. Kozoom , accessed November 3, 2019 (Dutch).
↑ Emile van Steenis: Arnoud Sengers. Tournament successes. BiljartPoint.nl, 2019, archived from the original on November 9, 2019 ; Retrieved November 9, 2019 (Dutch).

personal data
SURNAME	Sengers, Arnoud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sengers, Arnoldus Antonius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch carom player and official
DATE OF BIRTH	August 10, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gestel , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH	July 1, 1970
Place of death	Rotterdam , Netherlands

[EdB-WM-1] A ^b Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 800-806 .

[EdB-EM-2] Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 867-870 .

[NDM_Champions-3] player profile. Kozoom , accessed November 3, 2019 (Dutch).

[BiljartPoint-4] Emile van Steenis: Arnoud Sengers. Tournament successes. BiljartPoint.nl, 2019, archived from the original on November 9, 2019 ; Retrieved November 9, 2019 (Dutch).