The three- cushion World Cup 1995/8 was the third BWA World Cup tournament in the tenth year of the three- cushion World Cup. The tournament took place from December 1st to 3rd, 1995 in this discipline of carom billiards in Antwerp . It was the eleventh three-cushion World Cup tournament in Belgium.
For the first time, the Belgian record world champion Raymond Ceulemans was able to win a World Cup tournament in his home country. It was his ninth and last World Cup victory. In the final he prevailed against Marco Zanetti with 3-1 sets . This is all the more remarkable because he also hosted the tournament as an organizer. The tournament was marked by the deaths of favorites. With the exception of Ceulemans, all the best-placed BWA world rankings were gradually eliminated. Thus, before the last BWA World Cup in Istanbul, the Belgian took the lead ahead of Torbjörn Blomdahl and Dick Jaspers .
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 more qualifying tournament.
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.