The three- cushion world cup 1987/2 was the second world cup tournament in the second year of the three- cushion world cup. It took place from 13th to 15th November 1987 in this discipline of carom billiards in Antwerp .
The very talented 25-year-old Swede Torbjörn Blomdahl already won his second World Cup tournament . With all tournament best performances, he also improved the World Cup records in the general average (GD) to 1.728 and in the best individual average (BED) to 2.093. In the final he defeated the record world champion Raymond Ceulemans with 3-1 sets. Only in the second set, which Ceulemans won 15: 6, he had small problems. Ex world champion Ludo Dielis was also very strong . He played very good averages throughout the tournament and came third with the second best GD. The German participant Dieter Müller failed in the quarter-finals as in Paris against the Dutchman Rini van Bracht . Van Bracht won his best World Cup game of 2,045 with 3-0 sets.
The tournament was played with 16 participants. The whole tournament was played in the knockout system with three sets of 15 points each.
The first four of the world rankings (in this case Raymond Ceulemans, Junichi Komori, Nobuaki Kobayashi and Rini van Bracht) were seeded for the round of 16.
If a set was completed by player one at 15 points, player two had no follow-up kick.
Final round
The tournament tree for the final round is listed below. Legend: SP / Pkt. / Aufn. / ED / HS
The three-cushion World Cup was organized by the founding association, the " Billiards Worldcup Association " (BWA) until 1998 . Disputes between the BWA and the world association Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB) led to parallel tournaments between 1994 and 1997. The UMB / BWA organized the tournament together until the beginning of 1999. Since the dissolution of the BWA in 1999, the UMB has been the sole organizer. From 1988-1991 the UMB did not host any world championships. During this time, the annual overall winner of the World Cup was crowned world champion.