Three Cushion World Cup 1998/3

76th Three Cushion World Cup 1998/3
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	Main tour
Tournament format:	Round robin , knock out
Organizer:	UMB / BWA
Tournament details
Venue:	?, Lisbon , Portugal
Opening:	April 9, 1998
Endgame:	April 12, 1998
Attendees:	101
Defending champion:	Torbjörn Blomdahl
Winner:	Dick Jaspers
2nd finalist:	Torbjörn Blomdahl
3rd place:	Dion Nelin Semih Saygıner
Prize money:	?
Records
Best GD:	1,781 Frédéric Caudron
Best ED:	2,812 Frédéric Caudron
Maximum series (HS):	014 Torbjörn Blomdahl00
Venue on the map
Lisbon
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The three- cushion world cup 1998/3 was the second UMB / BWA world cup tournament in the 13th year of the three- cushion world cup. The tournament took place from 9 to 12 April 1998 in this discipline of carom billiards in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon . It was the first three-cushion World Cup tournament in Lisbon.

history

The Belgian Frédéric Caudron got off to a terrific start in the first two rounds of the three-cushion World Cup tournament . In the quarterfinals against Semih Saygıner the tournament was over for him. For the record world champion Raymond Ceulemans , the first round was the end of the line for the second time. The battle for the overall World Cup was like Bussum. The two currently best three- cushion players, Torbjörn Blomdahl and Dick Jaspers , met again in the final. After a 2-0 lead, Jaspers was already 12-1 in the third set after four shots. Then Blomdahl kicked off this set with the highest tournament series of 14 points and started the fourth set with ten points. Jaspers countered with eight points and ended the game in the fifth shot at 13:13 with two points and secured his seventh World Cup victory.

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

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. In future, 18 participants are set. The seeded participants are recruited from the best 18 players in the current world rankings. 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. Torbjörn Blomdahl
2. Dick Jaspers
3. Frédéric Caudron
4. Dion Nelin
5. Marco Zanetti
6. Raimond Burgman
7. Semih Saygıner
8. Christian Rudolph
9. Raymond Ceulemans
10. Daniel Sánchez
11. Gerwin Valentijn
12. Henk Habraken
13. Eddy Leppens
14. Jorge Theriaga
15. Martin Horn
16. Andreas Efler
17. Christ van der Smissen
18. Francis Forton

from qualification:

1. 12 participants

Wildcards:

1. Egidio Vieira
2. Américo Rui

qualification

A pre-qualifying round was played. The 23 group winners reached the main qualification. From this 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
A.	1	Enrique Peñalva	4th	4: 2			0.760
	2	Tonny Carlsen	2	3: 2			0.897
	3	Antonio Saramago	0	1: 4			0.688
B.	1	Stefan Galla	4th	4: 1			1.489
	2	Antonio Oddo	2	3: 2			1.084
	3	Martin van der Leeuwen	0	0: 4			0.644
C.	1	Paul Stroobants	4th	4-0			1.153
	2	Christoph Pilss	2	2: 2			0.722
	3	Vasco Gomes	0	0: 4			0.641
D.	1	Jorge Fernandez Alipio	4th	4: 2			1,000
	2	Louis Havermans	2	3: 2			1.117
	3	Muharrem Peker	0	1: 4			0.967
E.	1	Jozef Gijsels	4th	4: 1			0.790
	2	Peter de Backer	2	2: 3			1.227
	3	Pereira Carvalho	0	2: 4			0.807
F.	1	Ben Velthuis	2	3: 2			1.255
	2	Rui Manuel Costa	2	3: 3			1.045
	3	Jean van Erp	2	2: 3			1,000
G	1	Jaime Sanchez	4th	4: 2			1.090
	2	Marco Jansen	0	2: 4			0.969
H	1	Eddy Merckx	2	3: 2			1.264
	2	Fabrice Puigvert	2	2: 2			0.770
	3	Fernando Cunha	2	2: 3			0.924
I.	1	Ronny Brants	4th	4: 1			0.827
	2	Rainer Neff	2	3: 2			1.044
	3	Manuel Ferreira	0	0: 4			0.600
J	1	Manuel Rio	2	3: 2			0.692
	2	Dirk Delmez	2	2: 2			0.675
	3	Huub Wilkowski	0	2: 3			0.780
K	1	Fonsy Grethen	4th	4: 1			1.059
	2	Manuel Fernandes	2	3: 2			0.984
	3	Tahir Alp	0	0: 4			0.842
L.	1	Mats Noren	4th	4: 1			1.377
	2	Manuel Ribeiro	2	3: 3			1.050
	3	Leslie Menheer	0	2: 4			0.777

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)

Torbjörn Blomdahl

3 / 1.406

Américo Rui

0 / 0.838

Torbjörn Blomdahl

3 / 1.730

Christ van der Smissen

0 / 1.352

Christ van der Smissen

3 / 1.617

Andreas Efler

1 / 1.393

Torbjörn Blomdahl

3 / 1.358

Christian Rudolph

1 / 1.325

Paul Stroobants

3 / 1.180

Raymond Ceulemans

1 / 1.020

Paul Stoobants

0 / 0.864

Christian Rudolph

3 / 1.184

Christian Rudolph

3 / 1.440

Egidio Vieira

2 / 0.979

Torbjörn Blomdahl

3 / 2.066

Dion Nelin

2 / 1.633

Jozef Gijsels

0 / 0.578

Gerwin Valentijn

3 / 1.153

Gerwin Valentijn

3 / 1.060

Henk Habraken

2 / 0.959

Jorge Fernandez Alipio

0 / 0.618

Henk Habraken

3 / 0.928

Gerwin Valentijn

1 / 1,000

Dion Nelin

3 / 1.838

Marco Zanetti

3 / 2.142

Stefan Galla

0 / 0.736

Marco Zanetti

2 / 1.657

Dion Nelin

3 / 1.583

Francis Forton

1 / 1.175

Dion Nelin

3 / 1.170

Torbjörn Blomdahl

1 / 2.227

Dick Jaspers

3 / 2.478

Frédéric Caudron

3 / 1.933

Ronny Brants

1 / 1.103

Frédéric Caudron

3 / 2.812

Raimond Burgman

0 / 1.214

Fonsy Grethen

0 / 0.666

Raimond Burgman

3 / 1.451

Frédéric Caudron

2 / 1.268

Semih Saygıner

3 / 1.428

Semih Saygıner

3 / 1.540

Mats Noren

1 / 1.277

Semih Saygıner

3 / 1.216

Martin Horn

0 / 0.771

Martin Horn

3 / 0.978

Manuel Rio

0 / 0.590

Semih Saygıner

1 / 1.230

Dick Jaspers

3 / 2.185

Jorge Theriaga

1 / 1.419

Eddy Merckx

3 / 1.562

Eddy Merckx

3 / 1.551

Ben Velthuis

0 / 0.888

Ben Velthuis

3 / 1.380

Eddy Leppens

1 / 0.975

Eddy Merckx

1 / 1.194

Dick Jaspers

3 / 1.422

Enrique Peñalva

3 / 1.380

Daniel Sánchez

1 / 1.170

Enrique Peñalva

0 / 0.857

Dick Jaspers

3 / 1.551

Jaime Sanchez

1 / 1.071

Dick Jaspers

3 / 1.162

Closing table

Final ranking phase space Surname MP SV Pt. Recording GD BED HS WRP * 1 final 1 Dick Jaspers 10-0 15: 4 264 159 1.660 2.478 10 60 2 Torbjörn Blomdahl 8: 2 13: 6 254 149 1.704 2.066 14th 45 Semi- finals 3 Dion Nelin 6: 2 11: 7 211 138 1.528 1.638 10 30th Semih Saygıner 6: 2 10: 6 194 142 1.366 1,540 6th 30th quarter- final 5 Frédéric Caudron 4: 2 8: 4 155 87 1,781 2.812 13 20th 6th Eddy Merckx 4: 2 7: 4 138 97 1.422 1.562 7th 20th 7th Christian Rudolph 4: 2 7: 5 167 126 1.325 1,440 13 20th 8th Gerwin Valentijn 4: 2 7: 5 128 119 1.075 1.153 8th 20th eighth final 9 Marco Zanetti 2: 2 5: 3 103 56 1.893 2.142 7th 10 10 Henk Habraken 2: 2 5: 4 99 105 0.942 0.928 9 10 11 Raimond Burgman 2: 2 3: 3 62 45 1.377 1.451 6th 10 12 Martin Horn 2: 2 3: 3 72 81 0.888 0.978 5 10 13 Christ van der Smissen 2: 2 3: 4 78 59 1.322 1.617 8th 10 14th Ben Velthuis 2: 2 3: 4 82 69 1.188 1,380 7th 10 15th Enrique Peñalva 2: 2 3: 4 82 70 1.171 1,380 5 10 16 Paul Stroobants 2: 2 3: 4 91 87 1.045 1.180 6th 10 1/16 finals 17th Egidio Vieira 0: 2 2: 3 48 49 0.797 - 6th 18th Jorge Theriaga 0: 2 1: 3 44 31 1.419 - 6th 19th Andreas Efler 0: 2 1: 3 46 33 1.393 - 6th 20th Mats Noren 0: 2 1: 3 46 36 1.277 - 7th 21st Francis Forton 0: 2 1: 3 47 40 1.175 - 7th 22nd Daniel Sánchez 0: 2 1: 3 48 41 1.170 - 4th 23 Ronny Brants 0: 2 1: 3 32 29 1.103 - 5 24 Jaime Sanchez 0: 2 1: 3 45 42 1.071 - 5 25th Raymond Ceulemans 0: 2 1: 3 50 49 1.020 - 8th 26th Eddy Leppens 0: 2 1: 3 40 41 0.975 - 8th 27 Jorge Fernandez Alipio 0: 2 1: 3 34 55 0.618 - 4th 28 Américo Rui 0: 2 0: 3 26th 31 0.838 - 6th 29 Stefan Galla 0: 2 0: 3 14th 19th 0.736 - 3 30th Fonsy Grethen 0: 2 0: 3 20th 30th 0.666 - 4th 31 Manuel Rio 0: 2 0: 3 26th 44 0.590 - 7th 32 Jozef Gijsels 0: 2 0: 3 22nd 38 0.578 - 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. 105 . Vienna May 1998, p. 19-23 .