The three- cushion world cup 1989/1 was the 1st world cup tournament in the fourth year of the three-cushion world cup. It took place from 10 to 12 November 1989 in this discipline of carom billiards in the Deurne district of Antwerp .
The World Cup tournament in Antwerp started with a big surprise. The Italian Marco Zanetti , who started with a BWA wildcard, eliminated reigning world champion Torbjörn Blomdahl in three sets with the excellent average (GD) of 2,500 in the first round . In the quarterfinals, however, the talented young Italian stumbled against the Belgian veteran Raymond Steylaerts with 0: 3 sets. Other favorites had to give up in this lap. Ceulemans, Kobayashi and Komori were eliminated by Bitalis, Dielis and van Bracht. For Richard Bitalis it was the first win against the Belgian after a lot of attempts. Bitalis played the tournament of his life and won the World Cup tournament, which was played for the first time on four sets in the final. The allocation of world ranking points was also reorganized from this tournament onwards. The Japanese Yoshihiko Mano and the Dutch Rini van Bracht qualified for the 1989 seeding list in Spa.
The exact price money could not be determined from the documents. However, as in all BWA World Cup tournaments, it was at least 100,000 DM.
The tournament was played with 16 participants. The whole tournament was played in the KO system with three sets of 15 points each.
The first four of the world rankings (in this case Torbjörn Blomdahl, Raymond Ceulemans Jun'ichi Komori and Nobuaki Kobayashi) were seeded for the round of 16.
If a set was completed at 15 points by player one, player two had no follow-up kick .
Final round
The tournament tree for the final round is listed below.
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.