The three- cushion world cup 1993/1 was the 1st world cup tournament in the eighth year of the three-cushion world cup. It took place from October 2nd to 4th 1993 in this discipline of carom billiards in Oosterhout . It was the fifth three-cushion World Cup tournament in the Netherlands.
The new World Cup season began like the old one ended. Torbjörn Blomdahl won the third World Cup tournament in a row. The first round started with an extraordinary match between the two junior players Dick van Uum and Daniel Sánchez . The Dutchman won with 3-2 sets and an average of 1,774. Sánchez even played 1,839. With Richard Bitalis and Jun'ichi Komori two seeded players have already been eliminated. In the second round, Dick Jaspers and Ludo Dielis met the same fate . In the final, Torbjörn Blomdahl, the dominant player of the last few years, met Raymond Ceulemans, who has won the world championships in the last twenty years . After a quick 2-0 lead by Blomdahl, Ceulemans was able to equalize to 2-2. Blomdahl played the decisive fifth set in a great manner in 2 shots and won with 15: 1. It was already the 16th World Cup victory for Blomdahl in 37 tournaments so far.
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 World Cup tournament was played as an open tournament again. From a pre-qualification with 48 participants, 12 participants qualified for the 1/16 final and got 6 points for the world rankings. The main tournament was played with 28 participants. The first four of the world rankings were set for the second round. The players qualified in Spa must take part in the pre-qualification. The whole tournament, with the exception of the small final, was played in the knockout system with three sets of 15 points each.
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.