Three Cushion World Cup 1997/3

67th Three Cushion World Cup 1997/3

Tournament dates

Tournament type:

Ranking tournament

Tournament format:

Round robin / knockout system

Organizer:

UMB

Tournament details

Venue:

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Porto , Portugal

Opening:

March 27, 1997

Endgame:

March 30, 1997

Attendees:

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Defending champion:

Yilmaz Ozcan

Winner:

Dion Nelin

2nd finalist:

Daniel Sánchez

3rd place:

Eddy Leppens Stefan Galla

Records

Best GD:

1,685 Daniel Sánchez

Best ED:

2,500 Mats Noren

Maximum series (HS):

12 Daniel Sánchez Eddy Leppens000

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Venue on the map

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The three- cushion world cup 1997/3 was the third UMB world cup tournament in the twelfth year of the three-cushion world cup. The tournament took place from March 27th to 30th, 1997 in this discipline of carom billiards in Porto . It was the third three-cushion World Cup tournament in Portugal.

history

For the third time, a three-cushion World Cup tournament was held in the Portuguese port city. For the second time, the winner was Dion Nelin. The young Dane, who is getting stronger and stronger, made his way into the final with some excellent performances against world number two Daniel Sánchez from Spain. Nelin prevailed 3-2 sets against opponents who had been in various junior championships several times in the past and improved to second place in the new world rankings. Third place went to Belgian Eddy Leppens and 26-year-old Stefan Galla from Gelsenkirchen. Galla is playing his best World Cup year to date. It was his second podium in a row after Salsomaggiore Terme. In the current world rankings, he improved to eighth place. That is his highest ranking. On his way to the semi-finals, he defeated, among others, Jorge Theriaga from Portugal, who was third in the world rankings.

For the other German participants, the tournament was mixed. Martin Horn reached the round of 16. Here, after his 3-0 win in the first round against the Greek George Sakkas, he was defeated by the Danish veteran Hans Laursen by 2: 3 sets. The tournament was disappointing for the current world champion and world number one Christian Rudolph . After a rather mediocre performance in his 3-0 first round win against the Portuguese Manuel Rio, an increase in performance against Leppens in the 2-3 set defeat was not enough to progress. Another two German participants took part in the tournament. After successfully qualifying, Rainer Neff made it into the last 32 participants. For Orhan Erogul, the tournament was over after having passed the pre-qualification in the qualification.

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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:

MP = match points
SV = rate ratio
GD = general average
HS = maximum series

Seeded players and wild cards

According to ranking

Germany Christian Rudolph
Spain Daniel Sánchez
Portugal Jorge Theriaga
Denmark Dion Nelin
Belgium Jozef Philipoom
Denmark Hans Laursen
Belgium Francis Forton
Belgium Eddy Merckx
Netherlands John Tijssens
Belgium Peter de Backer
Germany Martin Horn
Turkey Yilmaz Ozcan
Germany Stefan Galla
Portugal Egidio Viera

Wildcard player

Portugal Fernado Cunha
Portugal Jorge Fernandez Alipio