The three- cushion world cup 1989/3 was the 3rd world cup tournament in the fourth year of the three-cushion world cup. It took place from 1st to 3rd December 1989 in this discipline of carom billiards in Palma .
The World Cup tournament started for the strong Japanese with a total failure. Yoshihiko Mano lost 2: 0 set lead against Rini van Bracht with 2: 3 sets. Jun'ichi Komori suffered the closest of all defeats . Against Richard Bitalis he lost in the decisive fifth set with 14:15. The German Dieter Müller surprisingly lost against the local hero Javier Cañellas with 2: 3 sets. Cañellas caused another surprise in the quarter-finals. Against the French old master of Portuguese descent and World Cup winner 1986 in Berlin he managed a 3-0 victory. The remainder of the tournament up to the semi-finals ended with favorites wins. In the final, Raymond Ceulemans defeated the reigning world champion Torbjörn Blomdahl with 4-1 sets. It was Ceuleman's third World Cup victory.
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 knockout 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.