The three- cushion World Cup 1995/7 was the second BWA World Cup tournament in the tenth year of the three-cushion World Cup. The tournament took place from November 8th to 11th, 1995 in this discipline of carom billiards in Halle (Saale) in Saxony-Anhalt. It was the tenth three-cushion World Cup tournament in Germany.
The Swede Torbjörn Blomdahl won his 19th World Cup tournament in Halle an der Saale. In the final he defeated the Belgian Raymond Ceulemans with 3-0 sets without any major problems. The Dane Tonny Carlsen played a strong tournament. He managed in the quarterfinals to eliminate the Dutchman Dick Jaspers . Jaspers played a terrific average of 2,400. Carlsen only played 1,923, but he won the fifth set 15:10 in 13 shots. In the game for third place, he then achieved an average of 3,750. The result is not recognized as a world record, as the average can only be achieved in a match with three winning sets. The tournament went well for the German Falco Willenberger. After two victories he only had to admit defeat in the quarterfinals against record world champion Ceulemans. Sixth place was his best World Cup result.
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 a maximum of 124 participants, ten participants qualify for the 1/16 finals. The main tournament is played with 28 participants. The first four of the world rankings are set for the round of 16. In future, 20 participants are set. The participants are recruited from the 14 best players in the world rankings (as of September 1st of the current year) as well as two national and international wildcards. The whole tournament, with the exception of the small final, is played in the knockout system with three sets of 15 points each. (Press release by BWA.Ghent, January 8, 1994.)
From this year onwards, there was no qualifying tournament in Spa.
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.