Three Cushion World Cup 1996/4

61st Three Cushion World Cup 1996/4
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	Ranking tournament
Tournament format:	Round robin / knockout system
Organizer:	UMB
Tournament details
Venue:	Divani-Caravel Hotel, Athens , Greece
Opening:	June 13, 1996
Endgame:	June 16, 1996
Attendees:	32
Defending champion:	Ludo Dielis
Winner:	Francis Forton
2nd finalist:	Christian Rudolph
3rd place:	Jorge Theriaga Egidio Vieira
Records
Best GD:	1,372 Christian Rudolph
Best ED:	2,944 Christian Rudolph
Maximum series (HS):	13 Christian Rudolph Mats Noren 000 00000
Venue on the map
Athens
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The three- cushion world cup 1996/4 was the fourth and last UMB world cup tournament in the eleventh year of the three- cushion world cup. The tournament took place from 13 to 16 June 1996 in this discipline of carom billiards in Athens . It was the second three-cushion World Cup tournament in Athens.

history

The World Cup tournament in Athens ended with a surprise. The Belgian Francis Forton was only able to survive the qualifying round for the second time after 1995 in Bad Mondorf and won the final with 3-2 sets against Christian Rudolph from Cologne . In the semifinals against the Portuguese Jorge Theriaga threatened the end. Forton won the fifth set just 15:14. Rudolph also had big problems in the semi-finals against an extremely defensive Egidio Viera. He also only prevailed in the fifth set with 15:10 and ruined his very good general average (GD) with just 0.797. Rudolph showed an absolute world class performance in the quarterfinals against the Spaniard Daniel Sánchez . He won with 3: 1 sets and achieved an outstanding average of 2,944 . Sánchez also played 2,058.

By reaching the round of 16, Sánchez was also able to repeat the UMB overall World Cup victory from the previous year. Rudolph was able to return to the group of seeded players by participating in the finals.

The exact price money could not be determined from the documents.

Tournament mode

In the qualifying round in groups, two sets of 15 points each are played in round robin mode. The group winners qualify for the 1/16 finals. There are also 16 seeded players. From the main competition (1/16 final), all games are played on three sets of 15 points each. Third place has not been played since the 1996/97 season. This means that there is no game for third place and there are two third-placed players.

In the event of a tie, the following order will be applied:

1. MP = match points
2. GD = general average
3. HS = maximum series

Seeded players and wild cards

According to ranking

1. Daniel Sánchez
2. Jozef Philipoom
3. Jorge Theriaga
4. Hans Laursen
5. Dion Nelin
6. John Tijssens
7. Eddy Merckx
8. Peter de Backer
9. Eddy Leppens
10. Koen Ceulemans
11. Rini van Bracht
12. Andreas Efler

Wildcard player

1. 2 participants

Final round

The tournament tree for the final round is listed below.

1/16 finals 3 winning sets of 15 points each

Round of 16 3 winning sets of 15 points each

Quarter finals 3 winning sets of 15 points each

Semifinals 3 winning sets of 15 points each

final 3 winning sets of 15 points each

Daniel Sánchez

3 / 1.212

Kaladaridis

1 / 0.652

Daniel Sánchez

1 / 2.058

Christian Rudolph

3 / 2.944

Martin Horn

1 / 1.555

Christian Rudolph

3 / 1.750

Christian Rudolph

3 / 1.666

Peter de Backer

0 / 0.840

Peter de Backer

3 / 1.323

Allan Jensen

0 / 1.093

Peter de Backer

3 / 1.120

Eddy Leppens

1 / 0.959

Eddy Leppens

3 / 1,000

Antonio Oddo

1 / 0.875

Christian Rudolph

3 / 0.797

Egidio Vieira

1 / 0.643

John Tijssens

3 / 1.037

Dionisis Tsokantas

1 / 0.807

John Tijssens

2 / 0.959

Mats Noren

3 / 1.448

George Sakkas

0 / 0.933

Mats Noren

3 / 1.451

Mats Noren

1 / 1.222

Egidio Vieira

3 / 1.130

Egidio Vieira

3 / 0.865

Nikos Tremoulis

0 / 0.600

Egidio Vieira

3 / 1.017

Rainer Neff

2 / 0.929

Rainer Neff

3 / 1.131

Hans Laursen

2 / 0.916

Christian Rudolph

2 / 1.268

Francis Forton

3 / 1.452

Jozef Philipoom

2 / 1,000

Francis Forton

3 / 1.175

Francis Forton

3 / 1.067

Gerhard Kostistansky

2 / 0.982

Gerhard Kostistansky

3 / 0.894

Jacob Haack-Sörensen

2 / 1.071

Francis Forton

3 / 0.978

Adnan Yüksel

0 / 0.733

Adnan Yüksel

3 / 1.224

Koen Ceulemans

2 / 1.125

Adnan Yüksel

3 / 1.113

Dion Nelin

1 / 0.750

Yilmaz Öczan

0 / 0.800

Dion Nelin

3 / 1.250

Francis Forton

3 / 1.571

Jorge Theriaga

2 / 1.166

Kostas Papakonstantinou

2 / 1.162

Andreas Efler

3 / 1.465

Andreas Efler

3 / 1.545

Eddy Merckx

2 / 1.069

Nikos Polychronopoulos

1 / 1.025

Eddy Merckx

3 / 1.390

Andreas Efler

0 / 0.896

Jorge Theriaga

3 / 1,500

Mario Ribeiro

3 / 1.531

Leslie Menheer

1 / 1.193

Mario Ribeiro

2 / 1.254

Jorge Theriaga

3 / 1.115

Tahir Alp

1 / 1.047

Jorge Theriaga

3 / 1.302

Closing table

Final ranking phase space Surname MP SV Pt. Recording GD BED HS WRP * 1 final 1 Francis Forton 10-0 15: 8 302 246 1.228 1.571 8th 36 2 Christian Rudolph 8: 2 14: 6 258 188 1.372 2.944 13 28 Semi- finals 3 Jorge Theriaga 6: 2 11: 6 208 167 1.246 1,500 7th 20th Egidio Vieira 6: 2 10: 6 202 228 0.886 1.130 7th 20th quarter- final 5 Mats Noren 4: 2 7: 5 171 125 1.368 1.451 13 14th 6th Peter de Backer 4: 2 6: 4 122 109 1.119 1.323 9 12 7th Adnan Yüksel 4: 2 6: 6 152 147 1.034 1.224 8th 10 8th Andreas Efler 4: 2 6: 7 153 116 1,319 1.465 9 8th eighth final 9 Mario Ribeiro 2: 2 5: 4 113 83 1.361 1.531 10 6th 10 Eddy Merckx 2: 2 5: 4 108 84 1.286 1,390 6th 6th 11 John Tijssens 2: 2 5: 4 102 102 1,000 1.037 7th 6th 12 Dion Nelin 2: 2 4: 3 84 88 0.955 1,250 8th 6th 13 Daniel Sánchez 2: 2 4: 4 92 64 1.438 1,212 10 4th 14th Rainer Neff 2: 2 5: 5 122 118 1.034 1.131 6th 4th 15th Eddy Leppens 2: 2 4: 4 104 106 0.981 1,000 10 4th 16 Gerhard Kostistansky 2: 2 5: 5 108 115 0.939 0.894 7th 4th 1/16 finals 17th Kostas Papakonstantinou 0: 2 2: 3 50 43 1.162 - 2 18th Koen Ceulemans 0: 2 2: 3 54 48 1.125 - 2 19th Jacob Haack-Sörensen 0: 2 2: 3 60 56 1.071 - 2 20th Jozef Philipoom 0: 2 2: 3 57 57 1,000 - 2 21st Hans Laursen 0: 2 2: 3 55 60 0.916 - 2 22nd Martin Horn 0: 2 1: 3 42 27 1.555 - 2 23 Leslie Menheer 0: 2 1: 3 37 31 1.193 - 2 24 Tahir Alp 0: 2 1: 3 44 42 1.047 - 2 25th Nikos Polychronopoulos 0: 2 1: 3 41 40 1.025 - 2 26th Antonio Oddo 0: 2 1: 3 49 56 0.875 - 2 27 Dionisis Tsokandas 0: 2 1: 3 42 52 0.807 - 2 28 Kaladaridis 0: 2 1: 3 30th 46 0.652 - 2 29 Allan Jensen 0: 2 0: 3 35 32 1.093 - 2 30th George Sakkas 0: 2 0: 3 28 30th 0.933 - 2 31 Yilmaz Ozcan 0: 2 0: 3 28 35 0.800 - 2 32 Nikos Tremoulis 0: 2 0: 3 30th 50 0.600 - 2

Legend Abbr. meaning Pt. points scored Recording required recordings ED Single average GD General average VGD Relative general average BMD Best team average BED Best individual average BSD Best sentence average BEVD Best Individual Relative Average HS Maximum series MP Match points PP Lot of points GUV G ewonnen- U nentschieden- V erloren SV Sentence ratio 1st place (gold) 2nd place (silver) 3rd place (bronze) Best GD of the tournament / round Best VGD of the tournament / round Best ED of the tournament / round Best BVGD of the tournament / round Best HS of the tournament / round (It is possible that not all terms are used or some are not listed. These can be looked up in the list of collision terms .)

annotation

• ^{* 1} = world ranking points

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinrich Weingartner: Billiards . No. 87 (August / September). Vienna 1996, p. 5-7 .