Three-cushion World Cup 1998/9

82nd three-cushion world cup 1998/9
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	Main tour
Tournament format:	Round robin , knock out
Organizer:	UMB / BWA
Tournament details
Venue:	Royal Resort Hotel, Antalya , Turkey
Opening:	December 1, 1998
Endgame:	December 6, 1998
Attendees:	100
Defending champion:	Daniel Sánchez
Winner:	Semih Saygıner
2nd finalist:	Gerwin Valentijn
3rd place:	Marco Zanetti Christian Rudolph
Prize money:	?
Records
Best GD:	1,639 Semih Saygıner
Best ED:	2,230 Fonsy Grethen
Maximum series (HS):	12 Torbjörn Blomdahl000
Venue on the map
Antalya Venue
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The three- cushion world cup 1998/9 was the eighth UMB / BWA world cup tournament in the 13th year of the three-cushion world cup. The tournament took place from December 1 to 6, 1998 in this discipline of carom billiards in the Turkish holiday resort of Antalya . It was the seventh three-cushion World Cup tournament in Turkey.

history

After three third places in the previous tournaments Semih Saygıner was able to win his home World Cup tournament. In the final he won against the Dutch outsider Gerwin Valentijn with 3-1 sets. With his victory, Saygıner moved up to third place in the current ranking and still had a chance of the overall World Cup in 1998. The two leaders Dick Jaspers and Torbjörn Blomdahl only made it to the second round. Marco Zanetti and Christian Rudolph finished third together . The technical specialist Fonsy Grethen from Luxembourg provided the highlight in the first round . Against the world number three Frédéric Caudron he played in his 3-1 set win with 2.230 the best individual average of the tournament.

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. There are 18 participants. 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. Dick Jaspers
2. Torbjörn Blomdahl
3. Frédéric Caudron
4. Daniel Sánchez
5. Semih Saygıner
6. Raimond Burgman
7. Dion Nelin
8. Christian Rudolph
9. Marco Zanetti
10. Eddy Leppens
11. Jorge Theriaga
12. Henk Habraken
13. Francis Forton
14. Martin Horn
15. Gerwin Valentijn
16. Eddy Merckx
17. Tonny Carlsen
18. Andreas Efler

from qualification:

1. 12 participants

Wildcards:

1. Adnan Yüksel
2. Muharrem Peker

qualification

Prequalification of 24 groups was played. 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
A.	1	Selim Ozden					1.106
	2	Stefan Galla					0.936
	3	Savas Bulut					0.881
B.	1	Yilmaz Ozcan					2,500
	2	Mehmet brats					1,000
	3	Xavier Yeste					1,000
C.	1	Fonsy Grethen					0.862
	2	Zeki Çakal					1.067
	3	Christos Christodoulidis					0.597
D.	1	Kostas Papakonstantinou					1.161
	2	Murat Naci Çoklu					0.974
	3	Yerli					0.587
E.	1	Yildrim Ozcan					1.163
	2	Roland Uytdewilligen					0.932
	3	Sertan Tik					0.832
F.	1	Kouji Funaki					1.074
	2	Tahir Alp					1,114
	3	Tayfun Taşdemir					1.050
G	1	Patrick Mintjens					0.973
	2	Rainer Neff					1,238
	3	Onder Yanik					0.686
H	1	Jacob Haack-Sörensen					1,200
	2	Mustafa Emek					0.803
	3	Arif Topaloglu					0.409
I.	1	Jun'ichi Komori					1.111
	2	Selahattin Gurbertli					0.971
	3	Remzi Yurt					0.661
J	1	Habib Engin					1.175
	2	Lennart Blomdahl					0.666
	3	Melih Aksoy					0.753
K	1	Jens Eggers					1.160
	2	Haci Arap Yaman					0.983
	3	Hakan Çiçek					0.819
L.	1	Marc Janssen					0.960
	2	Norbert Ohagen					0.923
	3	Muzaffer Arslan					0.898

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 / 1.875

Kouji Funaki

0 / 0.956

Dick Jaspers

1 / 1.258

Marco Zanetti

3 / 1.656

Marco Zanetti

3 / 1.087

Jacob Haack-Sörensen

1 / 1.111

Marco Zanetti

3 / 1.475

Francis Forton

1 / 1,000

Francis Forton

3 / 1.274

Kostas Papakonstantinou

2 / 1.060

Francis Forton

3 / 1.325

Jorge Theriaga

2 / 1.333

Habib Engin

1 / 0.977

Jorge Theriaga

3 / 1.282

Marco Zanetti

1 / 1.194

Gerwin Valentijn

3 / 1.540

Henk Habraken

2 / 1.170

Muharrem Peker

3 / 1.243

Muharrem Peker

3 / 1.451

Raimond Burgman

0 / 1,000

Raimond Burgman

3 / 1.292

Selim Ozden

1 / 1.100

Muharrem Peker

0 / 0.892

Gerwin Valentijn

3 / 1,500

Jens Eggers

0 / 0.857

Gerwin Valentijn

3 / 1.551

Gerwin Valentijn

3 / 1.733

Daniel Sánchez

1 / 1.566

Daniel Sánchez

3 / 1.075

Yildrim Ozcan

1 / 0.942

Gerwin Valentijn

1 / 1.120

Semih Saygıner

3 / 1.961

Frédéric Caudron

1 / 1.400

Fonsy Grethen

3 / 2.230

Fonsy Grethen

2 / 1.261

Dion Nelin

3 / 1.441

Dion Nelin

3 / 1.451

Marc Janssen

0 / 0.827

Dion Nelin

2 / 1.363

Semih Saygıner

3 / 1.422

Semih Saygıner

3 / 1.730

Adnan Yüksel

0 / 0.875

Semih Saygıner

3 / 1.687

Tonny Carlsen

1 / 1.225

Tonny Carlsen

3 / 1,800

Yilmaz Ozcan

0 / 0.826

Semih Saygıner

3 / 1.551

Christian Rudolph

0 / 1.428

Christian Rudolph

3 / 1,200

Eddy Merckx

2 / 0.857

Christian Rudolph

3 / 1.540

Junichi Komori

1 / 0.888

Junichi Komori

3 / 1,000

Martin Horn

0 / 0.785

Christian Rudolph

3 / 1.183

Andreas Efler

0 / 0.729

Andreas Efler

3 / 1.377

Eddy Leppens

2 / 1.159

Andreas Efler

3 / 0.918

Torbjörn Blomdahl

2 / 1.098

Torbjörn Blomdahl

3 / 1,800

Patrick Mintjens

0 / 0.695

Closing table

Final ranking phase space Surname MP SV Pt. Recording GD BED HS WRP * 1 final 1 Semih Saygıner 10-0 15: 4 259 158 1.639 1.961 9 60 2 Gerwin Valentijn 8: 2 13: 5 227 151 1.503 1.733 8th 45 Semi- finals 3 Marco Zanetti 6: 2 10: 6 205 154 1.331 1.656 9 30th Christian Rudolph 6: 2 9: 6 202 154 1,311 1,540 10 30th quarter- final 5 Dion Nelin 4: 2 8: 5 167 118 1.415 1.451 8th 20th 6th Muharrem Peker 4: 2 6: 5 121 100 1,210 1.451 6th 20th 7th Francis Forton 4: 2 7: 7 157 130 1.207 1.325 7th 20th 8th Andreas Efler 4: 2 6: 7 145 143 1.013 1.377 9 20th eighth final 9 Torbjörn Blomdahl 2: 2 5: 3 112 86 1.302 1,800 12 10 10 Fonsy Grethen 2: 2 5: 4 111 68 1.632 2.230 11 10 11 Dick Jaspers 2: 2 4: 3 84 55 1.527 1,875 9 10 12 Tonny Carlsen 2: 2 4: 3 83 56 1.482 1,800 7th 10 13 Jorge Theriaga 2: 2 5: 4 111 85 1.305 1.282 9 10 14th Daniel Sánchez 2: 2 4: 4 103 82 1.256 1.075 7th 10 15th Raimond Burgman 2: 2 3: 3 82 70 1.171 1.292 8th 10 16 Junichi Komori 2: 2 4: 4 89 93 0.956 1,000 8th 10 1/16 finals 17th Henk Habraken 0: 2 2: 3 48 41 1.170 - 9 - 18th Eddy Leppens 0: 2 2: 3 51 44 1.159 - 6th - 19th Kostas Papakonstantinou 0: 2 2: 3 53 50 1.060 - 5 - 20th Eddy Merckx 0: 2 2: 3 42 49 0.857 - 5 - 21st Frédéric Caudron 0: 2 1: 3 35 25th 1,400 - 5 - 22nd Jacob Haack-Sörensen 0: 2 1: 3 50 45 1.111 - 8th - 23 Selim Ozden 0: 2 1: 3 44 40 1,100 - 5 - 24 Habib Engin 0: 2 1: 3 44 45 0.977 - 4th - 25th Yildrim Ozcan 0: 2 1: 3 49 52 0.942 - 5 - 26th Martin Horn 0: 2 1: 3 44 56 0.785 - 6th - 27 Kouji Funaki 0: 2 0: 3 22nd 23 0.956 - 6th - 28 Adnan Yüksel 0: 2 0: 3 21st 24 0.875 - 4th - 29 Jens Eggers 0: 2 0: 3 24 28 0.857 - 3 - 30th Marc Janssen 0: 2 0: 3 24 29 0.827 - 3 - 31 Yilmaz Ozcan 0: 2 0: 3 19th 23 0.826 - 7th - 32 Patrick Mintjens 0: 2 0: 3 16 23 0.695 - 7th -

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. 5-9 .