Three Cushion World Cup 2003

96th Three Cushion World Cup 2003
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World cup
Tournament format:	Round robin / knockout system
Organizer:	UMB / BWA
Tournament details
Venue:	Stardust Resort & Casino , Las Vegas , USA
Opening:	July 8, 2003
Endgame:	July 13, 2003
Attendees:	144
Defending champion:	Torbjörn Blomdahl
Winner:	Semih Saygıner
2nd finalist:	Dick Jaspers
3rd place:	Daniel Sánchez Marco Zanetti
Prize money:	?
Records
Best GD:	1,719 Dick Jaspers
Best ED:	2,647 Dick Jaspers Daniel Sánchez 00000
Maximum series (HS):	11 Daniel Sánchez Torbjörn Blomdahl000 00000
Venue on the map
Las Vegas
Venue
Stardust by night (demolished 2007)
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The three-cushion world cup 2003 was the first and last UMB / BWA world cup tournament in the 17th year of the three-cushion world cup. The tournament took place from July 8th to 13th, 2003 in this discipline of carom billiards at the Stardust Resort & Casino in Las Vegas . It was the fourth three-cushion World Cup tournament in the United States and the only tournament of the 2003 World Cup season.

history

The World Cup tournament in Las Vegas was the only one in 2003. The troubled BWA had announced several World Cup tournaments for 2003, but the tournament in Las Vegas remained. With 144 participants, a new record was set for a World Cup tournament. There were 20 more players on the waiting list. However, these could no longer be integrated into the tournament scheme. The Turkish Semih Saygıner was able to confirm his impressive form at the moment in Las Vegas and won the final against Dick Jaspers with 3: 1 sets. In the quarter-finals, Saygıner proved his nerves when he was able to turn a 2-0 set deficit against Frédéric Caudron into a 3-2 win. Since there was no World Cup tournament in 2002 and only one in 2003, Saygıner was named overall World Cup winner 2003 with just one victory.

Tournament mode

The World Cup tournament was played as an open tournament. From a pre-qualification with a maximum of 144 participants, 12 participants qualify for the 1/16 finals. The main tournament is played with 32 participants. There are 14 participants. The seeded participants are recruited from the best 14 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. Marco Zanetti
4. Frédéric Caudron
5. Semih Saygıner
6. Daniel Sánchez
7. Dion Nelin
8. Tonny Carlsen
9. Raymond Ceulemans
10. Jacob Haack-Sörensen
11. Ramón Rodriguez
12. Christian Rudolph
13. Jaime Bedoya
14. Tayfun Taşdemir

from qualification:

1. 12 participants

BWA wildcards:

1. Sang Chun Lee
2. Miguel Torres
3. Hugo Patiño
4. Luis Avila
5. Chul Min-kim
6. Andreas Efler

Qualifying round

24 qualifying groups (A to X) played in Las Vegas. In the first knockout round, the group winners played out the 24 participants for the second knockout round. In this round 12 participants qualified for the main field. The game was played on two sets of 15 points each.

KO round

game	Player 1 (ED)	SP	Player 2 (ED)
1	Akio Shimada (0.967)	2 : 0	Guillermo Sosa (0.666)
2	John Tijssens (1,200)	2 : 0	Hiroshi Horigane (0.500)
3	Jean van Erp (0.967)	2 : 0	Takeshima O. (0.800)
4th	Javier Teran Noboa (0.777)	0: 2	Michael Kang (1,071)
5	Salvador Chapa (0.741)	0: 2	Ad Koorevaar (0.937)
6th	Martin Hermse (1,071)	1: 2	Adnan Yuksel (1,321)
7th	Frank Torres (1,176)	2 : 1	Luis Aveiga (0.939)
8th	Joji Kai (1,241)	2 : 1	Barry van Beers (0.928)
9	Martin Horn (1,714)	2 : 1	Moon Burn Heo (1,200)
10	Yilmaz Ozcan (1,357)	2 : 1	Allan Jensen (1,407)
11	Henk Habraken (1,500)	2 : 0	Raul Rodriguez (0.578)
12	Jorge Theriaga (1,304)	2 : 0	Arturo Velasquez (1,136)

Final round

The tournament tree for the final round is listed below.

1/16 final (3 GS with 15 points)

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 / 1.593

Jean van Erp

1 / 1.322

Torbjörn Blomdahl

0 / 1.625

Daniel Sánchez

3 / 2.647

Daniel Sánchez

3 / 1.870

Miguel Torres

1 / 1.600

Daniel Sánchez

3 / 1.288

Ad Koorevaar

1 / 1.045

Ad Koorevaar

3 / 0.983

Luis Avila

1 / 0.898

Ad Koorevaar

3 / 0.944

Martin Horn

2 / 1.094

Jaime Bedoya

0 / 0.593

Martin Horn

3 / 1.363

Daniel Sánchez

2 / 1.351

Semih Saygıner

3 / 1.263

Semih Saygıner

3 / 1,800

Joji Kai

2 / 1.307

Semih Saygıner

3 / 1,600

Yilmaz Ozcan

1 / 1.235

Andreas Efler

1 / 1.066

Yilmaz Ozcan

3 / 1.806

Semih Saygıner

3 / 1.488

Frédéric Caudron

2 / 1.214

Dion Nelin

0 / 0.918

Michael Kang

3 / 1.184

Michael Kang

0 / 0.833

Frédéric Caudron

3 / 1.451

John Tijssens

1 / 0.976

Frédéric Caudron

3 / 1.255

Semih Saygıner

3 / 2,000

Dick Jaspers

1 / 1.730

Marco Zanetti

3 / 1.092

Frank Torres

1 / 0.981

Marco Zanetti

3 / 1.439

Chul Min-kim

1 / 0.900

Chul Min-kim

3 / 1.127

Hugo Patino

2 / 0.907

Marco Zanetti

3 / 1.452

Tonny Carlsen

2 / 1.439

Henk Habraken

3 / 1.163

Christian Rudolph

2 / 0.851

Henk Habraken

0 / 0.727

Tonny Carlsen

3 / 1.956

Adnan Yüksel

2 / 1.477

Tonny Carlsen

3 / 1.363

Marco Zanetti

1 / 1.351

Dick Jaspers

3 / 1.357

Ramón Rodriguez

3 / 1.301

Sang Chun Lee

2 / 1.173

Ramón Rodriguez

1 / 0.911

Raymond Ceulemans

3 / 1.086

Tayfun Taşdemir

2 / 1.26

Raymond Ceulemans

3 / 1.452

Raymond Ceulemans

0 / 0.933

Dick Jaspers

3 / 2.647

Akio Shimada

1 / 0.870

Jacob Haack-Sörensen

3 / 1.656

Jacob Haack-Sörensen

2 / 1.766

Dick Jaspers

3 / 1.866

Jorge Theriaga

2 / 1.236

Dick Jaspers

3 / 1.578

Closing table

Final ranking phase space Surname MP SV Pt. Recording GD BED HS WRP * 1 final 1 Semih Saygıner 10-0 15: 8 294 183 1.606 2,000 10 60 2 Dick Jaspers 8: 2 13: 8 263 153 1,719 2,647 9 45 Semi- finals 3 Daniel Sánchez 6: 2 11: 5 211 140 1.623 2,647 11 30th 4th Marco Zanetti 6: 2 10: 7 229 178 1.286 1.452 6th 30th quarter- final 5 Tonny Carlsen 4: 2 8: 5 164 108 1.518 1.956 9 20th 6th Frédéric Caudron 4: 2 8: 4 150 116 1.293 1.451 6th 20th 7th Raymond Ceulemans 4: 2 6: 6 125 103 1,213 1.452 8th 20th 8th Ad Koorevaar 4: 2 7: 6 156 158 0.983 0.983 9 20th eighth final 9 Jacob Haack-Sörensen 2: 2 5: 4 106 62 1.709 1.656 10 10 10 Torbjörn Blomdahl 2: 2 3: 4 77 48 1.604 1.593 11 10 11 Yilmaz Ozcan 2: 2 3: 4 98 65 1.507 1.806 9 10 12 Martin Horn 2: 2 5: 3 103 86 1.197 1.363 9 10 13 Ramón Rodriguez 2: 2 4: 5 110 98 1.122 1.301 7th 10 14th Henk Habraken 2: 2 3: 5 80 77 1.039 1.163 7th 10 15th Chul Min-kim 2: 2 4: 4 98 95 1.031 1.127 6th 10 16 Michael Kang 2: 2 3: 3 70 68 1.029 1.184 6th 10 1/16 finals 17th Miguel Torres 0: 2 1: 3 48 30th 1,600 - 7th - 18th Adnan Yüksel 0: 2 2: 3 65 44 1.477 - 8th - 19th Jean van Erp 0: 2 1: 3 41 31 1.322 - 9 - 20th Joji Kai 0: 2 2: 3 51 39 1.307 - 7th - 21st Tayfun Taşdemir 0: 2 2: 3 53 42 1.261 - 6th - 22nd Jorge Theriaga 0: 2 2: 3 47 38 1,236 - 6th - 23 Sang Chun Lee 0: 2 2: 3 61 52 1.173 - 6th - 24 Andreas Efler 0: 2 1: 3 32 30th 1.066 - 8th - 25th Frank Torres 0: 2 1: 3 52 53 0.981 - 5 - 26th John Tijssens 0: 2 1: 3 41 42 0.976 - 6th - 27 Dion Nelin 0: 2 0: 3 34 37 0.918 - 9 - 28 Hugo Patino 0: 2 2: 3 49 54 0.907 - 4th - 29 Luis Avila 0: 2 1: 3 53 59 0.898 - 5 - 30th Akio Shimada 0: 2 1: 3 27 31 0.871 - 6th - 31 Christian Rudolph 0: 2 2: 3 46 54 0.851 - 7th - 32 Jaime Bedoya 0: 2 0: 3 19th 32 0.593 - 5 -

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. 158 . Vienna October 2003, p. 9-12 .