Three Cushion World Cup 1997/1

66th Three Cushion World Cup 1997/1
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	Ranking tournament
Tournament format:	Round robin / knockout system
Organizer:	UMB
Tournament details
Venue:	?, Seoul , South Korea
Opening:	January 8, 1997
Endgame:	January 12, 1997
Attendees:	?
Defending champion:	Francis Forton
Winner:	Christian Rudolph
2nd finalist:	Jorge Theriaga
3rd place:	Daniel Sánchez Kim Chul-min
Records
Best GD:	?
Best ED:	?
Maximum series (HS):	?
Venue on the map
Seoul
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The three- cushion world cup 1997/1 was the first UMB world cup tournament in the twelfth year of the three-cushion world cup. The tournament took place from January 8 to 12, 1997 in this discipline of carom billiards in Seoul . It was the third three-cushion World Cup tournament in South Korea.

history

Despite intensive research, it was not possible to determine the results of this World Cup tournament. After verbal inquiries from Christian Rudolph and Stefan Galla , the tournament results were not presented in an understandable version.

The winner of the tournament was the current three-cushion world champion Christian Rudolph. In the final, he defeated the current world number one Jorge Theriaga from Portugal with 3-0 sets. It was the first World Cup victory for a German three-cushion player. In the round of 16, the tournament for Rudolph was almost over. In the fourth set against a Korean, he couldn't use five match points and had to go into the fifth set. In this, the Korean had match point, which he could not use for his part. Then Rudolph used another match point and won the game. In the quarterfinals, Rudolph played his best game against the strong Belgian Eddy Merckx and won in five sets. In the semi-final against Daniel Sánchez there was a new edition of the final at the World Cup in Hattingen. In the fifth set, Rudolph was already leading 11-0 points, but got into trouble. After five wrong shots by Rudolph, Sánchez took the lead with 12:11. Rudolph was able to finish the set with a series of four points and won with 15:12. Stefan Galla from Gelsenkirchen also played a very good World Cup tournament. He was only stopped in the quarterfinals by Sánchez after a 3-0 defeat in the set.

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. SV = rate ratio
3. GD = general average
4. HS = maximum series

Seeded players and wild cards

According to ranking

1. Jorge Theriaga
2. Daniel Sánchez
3. Christian Rudolph
4. Dion Nelin
5. Hans Laursen
6. Eddy Merckx
7. John Tijssens
8. Jozef Philipoom
9. Eddy Leppens
10. Peter de Backer
11. Egidio Vieira
12. Francis Forton

Wildcard player

1. 2 participants

Closing table

Final ranking phase space Surname MP SV Pt. Recording GD BED HS WRP * 1 final 1 Christian Rudolph 10-0 36 2 Jorge Theriaga 8: 2 28 Semi- finals 3 Daniel Sánchez 6: 2 20th Kim Chul-min 6: 2 20th quarter- final 5 Stefan Galla 4: 2 12 6th Eddy Merckx 4: 2 12 7th Dion Nelin 4: 2 12 8th Egidio Vieira 4: 2 12

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. 94 . Vienna April 1997, p. 6 .