The three- cushion World Cup 1995/3 was the third UMB World Cup tournament in the tenth year of the three-cushion World Cup. The tournament took place from 8 to 12 March 1995 in this discipline of carom billiards in Bad Mondorf , Luxembourg . It was the first three-cushion World Cup tournament in Luxembourg.
After his first World Cup victory at the BWA World Cup tournament in 1992 in Oosterhout, the Netherlands, the current world champion Rini van Bracht was able to enter the list of winners for the second time. In the final he defeated Christian Rudolph after a hard fight with 15:12 in the fifth and thus decisive set with 3-2 sets. This was the second time that a German took a World Cup podium after Paris in 1988. The Berliner Dieter Müller succeeded in Paris . Rudolph was able to eliminate defending champion Daniel Sánchez from Spain in the quarter-finals . Third place went to the Portuguese doctor Jorge Theriaga , who underpinned his second place in the current UMB world rankings. In the small final he beat the Swiss Andreas Efler with 2-0 sets. Efler is now fourth in the world rankings.
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Tournament mode
In the qualifying round, two sets of 15 points each are played in Round Robin . The two best in the group qualify for the 1/16 finals. There are also 14 seeded players. From the main competition (1/16 final), all games are played on three sets of 15 points each. The small final for third place is only played on two sets of 15 points in the knockout system .
In the event of a tie, the following order will be applied:
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.