Three-cushion World Cup 1998/10

83rd Three Cushion World Cup 1998/10
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	Main tour
Tournament format:	Round robin , knock out
Organizer:	UMB / BWA
Tournament details
Venue:	Theater Hotel Oranjerie, Roermond , Netherlands
Opening:	December 8, 1998
Endgame:	December 13, 1998
Attendees:	72
Defending champion:	Semih Saygıner
Winner:	Frédéric Caudron
2nd finalist:	Torbjörn Blomdahl
3rd place:	Marco Zanetti Dion Nelin
Prize money:	65,000 DM
Records
Best GD:	1.658 Frédéric Caudron
Best ED:	2,500 Frédéric Caudron
Maximum series (HS):	013 Dick Jaspers00
Venue on the map
Roermond Venue
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The three- cushion world cup 1998/10 was the ninth and last UMB / BWA world cup tournament in the thirteenth year of the three-cushion world cup. The tournament took place from December 8th to 13th, 1998 in this discipline of carom billiards in Roermond in the Dutch province of Limburg. It was the first three-cushion World Cup tournament in Roermond.

history

In the last World Cup tournament of the year, three more players had a chance of winning the overall World Cup. The best was Dutchman Dick Jaspers with 285 points ahead of Torbjörn Blomdahl , who had 265 points. For Semih Saygıner , some things had to go very well. With 256 points, his deficit was a bit bigger. In the first round only Saygıner had problems against the French Richard Bitalis . He had to make up a 2-0 set deficit. In the end, it succeeded very confidently. He won Set Five 15-1 in three runs. In the second round, Blomdahl and Saygıner had few problems. Only Jaspers had to fight the strong US Korean Sang Chun Lee . After he was able to make up for the set deficit twice, he lost the fifth set at 11:15 in nine shots at the home World Cup. For the overall World Cup it would still be enough if Blomdahl were eliminated in the quarter-finals. The Austrian Andreas Efler was the opponent. Despite a good performance, he lost the fourth set with 14:15 and Blomdahl was overall World Cup winner for the seventh time. In the final against Frédéric Caudron he lost 3 sets 0-3, but all three sets were close.

Tournament mode

The World Cup tournament was played as an open tournament. From a pre-qualification with a maximum of 124 participants, 12 participants qualify for the 1/16 finals. The main tournament is played with 32 participants. There are 12 participants. The seeded participants are recruited from the top 12 players in the current world rankings. There are also six wildcard players from the BWA and two wildcards for the host. The whole tournament is played in the knockout system with three winning sets of 15 points each.

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

Set participants

according to world ranking:

1. Dick Jaspers
2. Torbjörn Blomdahl
3. Semih Saygıner
4. Frédéric Caudron
5. Dion Nelin
6. Christian Rudolph
7. Daniel Sánchez
8. Marco Zanetti
9. Raimond Burgman
10. Gerwin Valentijn
11. Sang Chun Lee
12. Raymond Ceulemans

from qualification:

1. 12 participants

Wildcards BWA:

1. Kim Chul-min
2. Andreas Efler
3. Eddy Merckx
4. Fonsy Grethen
5. Norbert Ohagen
6. Louis Havermans

Wildcards host:

1. Wiel van Gemert
2. Rob Mans

qualification

Prequalification was played with nine groups. From the main qualification, the 12 group winners qualified for the main tournament.

Main qualification

Final table qualification group stage

group	space	Surname	MP	SP	Pts	Recording	GD	BED	HS
A.	1	Aria Weijenburg	2	3: 2			1.347		11
	2	Ad Broeders	2	3: 3			1,132		6th
	3	Eddy Leppens	2	2: 3			1.119		7th
B.	1	Henk Habraken	4th	4: 1			1.050		9
	2	Arno Peterson	0	1: 4			0.965		7th
C.	1	Roland Forthomme	4th	4-0			1.224		8th
	2	Jorge Theriaga	2	2: 2			0.940		5
	3	Rini Zwiers	0	0: 4			0.754		4th
D.	1	Francis Forton	4th	4: 1			1,213		10
	2	van Aarle	2	3: 2			0.744		7th
	3	Peter Banyai	0	0: 4			0.758		4th
E.	1	Jan Verkijk	4th	4: 2			1,089		6th
	2	Martin Horn	2	3: 3			1.159		7th
	3	Clemie van Wanrooij	0	2: 4			1,140		7th
F.	1	Richard Bitalis	4th	4: 1			1.469		11
	2	Tonny Carlsen	2	2: 2			1.136		5
	3	Roland Uytdewilligen	0	1: 4			0.851		6th
G	1	Rainer Neff	4th	4: 1			1.463		7th
	2	Gerhard Kostistansky	2	3: 3			1.264		8th
	3	Antonio Oddo	0	1: 4			0.896		6th
H	1	Peter de Backer	4th	4: 1			0.871		4th
	2	Jacob Haack-Sörensen	2	3: 2			1.434		8th
	3	Frans Swinnen	0	0: 4			0.569		5
I.	1	Bert van Manen	4th	4: 1			1.274		10
	2	Xavier Yeste	2	3: 2			1.106		5
	3	van Degeld	0	0: 4			0.607		4th
J	1	Ad Koorevaar	4th	4: 1			1.383		8th
	2	Jun'ichi Komori	2	2: 2			1.018		6th
	3	John van der Stappen	0	0: 4			0.631		5
K	1	Kostas Papakonstantinou	4th	4: 1			0.827		6th
	2	Ronny Daniëls	2	2: 2			0.821		5
	3	Christoph Pilss	0	1: 4			0.589		4th
L.	1	Stefan Galla	4th	4: 2			1,480		10
	2	Huub Wilkowski	2	3: 3			1,000		8th
	3	Frans van Kuijk	0	2: 4			1.222		9

Final round

The tournament tree for the final round is listed below.

1/16 finals (3 GS 15 points each)

Round of 16 (3 GS 15 points)

Quarter-finals (3 GS 15 points each)

Semi-finals (3 GS 15 points)

Final (3 GS with 15 points)

Dick Jaspers

3 / 1.406

Wiel van Gemert

0 / 0.580

Dick Jaspers

2 / 1.487

Sang Chun Lee

3 / 1.625

Roland Forthomme

1 / 1.323

Sang Chun Lee

3 / 1.457

Sang Chun Lee

2 / 1.633

Marco Zanetti

3 / 2.129

Gerwin Valentijn

3 / 1.451

Aria Weijenburg

0 / 1.172

Gerwin Valentijn

1 / 1,000

Marco Zanetti

3 / 1.388

Ad Koorevaar

0 / 0.758

Marco Zanetti

3 / 1,500

Marco Zanetti

2 / 1.333

Frédéric Caudron

3 / 1.416

Peter de Backer

3 / 1.451

Raimond Burgman

0 / 0.724

Peter de Backer

0 / 1.080

Semih Saygıner

3 / 1.730

Semih Saygıner

3 / 1.466

Richard Bitalis

2 / 1.136

Semih Saygıner

2 / 1.350

Frédéric Caudron

3 / 1.560

Fonsy Grethen

1 / 0.916

Daniel Sánchez

3 / 1.486

Daniel Sánchez

0 / 1.681

Frédéric Caudron

3 / 1.956

Frédéric Caudron

3 / 1.451

Rob Mans

0 / 0.758

Frédéric Caudron

3 / 2,500

Torbjörn Blomdahl

0 / 2.058

Rainer Neff

0 / 1,000

Dion Nelin

3 / 1.730

Dion Nelin

3 / 1.406

Kim Chul-min

0 / 0.800

Kim Chul-min

3 / 0.805

Jan Verkijk

2 / 0.868

Dion Nelin

3 / 1.611

Stefan Galla

2 / 1.514

Louis Havermans

2 / 1.189

Stefan Galla

3 / 1.137

Stefan Galla

3 / 0.953

Kostas Papakonstantinou

2 / 1.079

Kostas Papakonstantinou

3 / 1.457

Raymond Ceulemans

1 / 0.970

Dion Nelin

1 / 1.451

Torbjörn Blomdahl

3 / 1.656

Henk Habraken

1 / 0.902

Norbert Ohagen

3 / 1.261

Norbert Ohagen

1 / 0.878

Andreas Efler

3 / 1.285

Andreas Efler

3 / 1.363

Francis Forton

0 / 0.967

Andreas Efler

1 / 1.433

Torbjörn Blomdahl

3 / 1.838

Bert van Manen

1 / 1.107

Christian Rudolph

3 / 1.689

Christian Rudolph

1 / 1.156

Torbjörn Blomdahl

3 / 1.545

Torbjörn Blomdahl

3 / 0.980

Eddy Merckx

1 / 0.938

Closing table

Final ranking phase space Surname MP SV Pt. Recording GD BED HS WRP * 1 final 1 Frédéric Caudron 10-0 15: 4 267 161 1.658 2,500 9 90 2 Torbjörn Blomdahl 8: 2 12: 7 245 163 1.503 1,838 8th 67 Semi- finals 3 Marco Zanetti 6: 2 11: 6 225 145 1.551 2.129 7th 45 Dion Nelin 6: 2 10: 5 193 125 1.544 1.730 9 45 quarter- final 5 Semih Saygıner 4: 2 8: 5 165 111 1.486 1.730 10 30th 6th Andreas Efler 4: 2 7: 4 142 105 1.352 1.363 8th 30th 7th Sang Chun Lee 4: 2 8: 6 165 105 1.571 1.625 10 30th 8th Stefan Galla 4: 2 8: 7 180 157 1.146 1.137 11 30th eighth final 9 Dick Jaspers 2: 2 5: 3 103 71 1,450 1.406 13 15th 10 Kostas Papakonstantinou 2: 2 5: 4 119 98 1,214 1.457 6th 15th 11 Gerwin Valentijn 2: 2 4: 3 80 66 1,212 1.451 9 15th 12 Christian Rudolph 2: 2 4: 4 86 61 1.409 1.689 10 15th 13 Peter de Backer 2: 2 3: 3 72 56 1.285 1.451 6th 15th 14th Norbert Ohagen 2: 2 4: 4 89 83 1.072 1.261 6th 15th 15th Daniel Sánchez 2: 2 3: 4 92 59 1.559 1.486 6th 15th 16 Kim Chul-min 2: 2 3: 5 86 107 0.803 0.805 4th 15th 1/16 finals 17th Louis Havermans 0: 2 2: 3 69 58 1.189 - 10 - 18th Richard Biltalis 0: 2 2: 3 55 44 1.136 - 6th - 19th Jan Verkijk 0: 2 2: 3 66 76 0.868 - 6th - 20th Roland Forthomme 0: 2 1: 3 45 34 1.323 - 8th - 21st Bert van Manen 0: 2 1: 3 31 28 1.107 - 6th - 22nd Raymond Ceulemans 0: 2 1: 3 33 34 0.970 - 5 - 23 Eddy Merckx 0: 2 1: 3 46 49 0.938 - 6th - 24 Fonsy Grethen 0: 2 1: 3 33 36 0.916 - 8th - 25th Henk Habraken 0: 2 1: 3 37 41 0.902 - 5 - 26th Aria Weijenburg 0: 2 0: 3 34 29 1.172 - 6th - 27 Rainer Neff 0: 2 0: 3 25th 25th 1,000 - 6th - 28 Francis Forton 0: 2 0: 3 30th 31 0.967 - 4th - 29 Rob Mans 0: 2 0: 3 22nd 29 0.758 - 4th - 30th Ad Koorevaar 0: 2 0: 3 22nd 29 0.758 - 4th - 31 Raimond Burgman 0: 2 0: 3 21st 29 0.724 - 4th - 32 Wiel van Gemert 0: 2 0: 3 18th 31 0.580 - 3 -

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. 112 . Vienna January 1999, p. 10-15 .