Three Cushion World Cup 2007/5

115th Three Cushion World Cup 2007/5
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World cup
Tournament format:	Round robin / knockout system
Organizer:	UMB / CEB
Tournament details
Venue:	Sunrise Garden Beach Resort, Hurghada , Egypt
Opening:	August 27, 2007
Endgame:	September 1, 2007
Attendees:	101
Defending champion:	Torbjörn Blomdahl
Winner:	Torbjörn Blomdahl
2nd finalist:	Martin Horn
3rd place:	Dick Jaspers Frédéric Caudron
Prize money:	€ 30,000
Records
Best GD:	2,259 Dick Jaspers
Best ED:	3,214 Dick Jaspers
Maximum series (HS):	15 Frédéric Caudron000
Venue on the map
Hurghada
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The three- cushion world cup 2007/5 was the fifth UMB / CEB world cup tournament in the 21st year of the three-cushion world cup. The tournament took place from August 27 to September 1, 2007 in this discipline of carom billiards in Hurghada on the Red Sea. It was the fifth three-cushion World Cup tournament in Egypt.

history

After his fifth victory in the last six World Cup tournaments, Torbjörn Blomdahl secured the title of overall winner 2007 ahead of time. In the final against Martin Horn , who won the first set in three shots, he once again showed his mental strength and won 3-1 Sentences. Horn repeated his best World Cup placement. Although he was twice in the finals in 1997, it was at the time when parallel World Cups were still taking place. The best three-cushion players in the world were not represented in these tournaments. But in 1999 in Berlin, where he was able to take second place, the world class was at the start. In the semi-final against Frédéric Caudron , Horn also showed good nerves. Caudron won the first set in one shot and was beaten 1: 3 sets. Also third was the Dutchman Dick Jaspers who once again played the best general average (GD) of the tournament.

Prize money and world ranking points

	Prize money ( € )	World ranking points
winner	5,000	80
finalist	3,000	54
Semi-finalists	1,800	38
5th - 8th	1,100	26th
9-16	750	16
17th - 32nd	500	8th
33. - xxx.		1 + 1 point for each game won in qualification (max. 5 points)
All in all	30,000	-

Tournament mode

Three qualifying rounds were played in Hurghada. From the last qualifying round, the 12 group winners and the best European group runner-up Wesley de Jaeger qualified as a wildcard player of the CEB for the final round. There were also wildcard players from the host and the associations from America, Asia and Europe as well as the UMB . The main tournament was played with 32 participants.

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. Daniel Sánchez
3. Frédéric Caudron
4. Dick Jaspers
5. Roland Forthomme
6. Kim Kyung-roul
7. Nikos Polychronopoulos
8. Semih Saygıner
9. Eddy Merckx
10. Marco Zanetti
11. Peter de Backer
12. Martin Horn

Wildcard player:

1 × UMB : Adnan Yüksel 1 × CEB : Wesley de Jaeger 2 × ACBC : Takao Miyashita, Hwang Durk-hee 2 × CPB : Aurelio Perez, Pedro Tabares 2 × organizing association: Ihab El Messery, Sameh Sidhom

Main qualification

Final table qualification group stage

group	space	Surname	MP	SP	Pts	Recording	GD	BED	BSD	HS
A.	1	Ryūji Umeda	4th	4: 1	70	55	1.272	1.666	3,750	9
	3	Emilio Sciacca	0	2: 4	66	95	0.694	---	1.666	6th
	2	Martin Spoormans	2	2: 3	56	75	0.764	0.758	1.666	5
B.	1	Filipos Kasidokostas	4th	4: 1	72	43	1.674	2,000	2.142	8th
	3	Vagelis Moulos	0	1: 4	47	60	0.783	---	1.363	7th
	2	Therese Klompenhouwer	2	3: 3	71	74	0.959	0.872	1.153	4th
C.	1	Jean Paul de Bruijn	4th	4: 1	73	39	1,871	2.263	2,500	9
	2	Wesley de Jaeger	2	3: 2	55	43	1.279	1,200	1,875	7th
	3	Jeffrey Jorissen	0	0: 4	33	43	0.767	---	---	5
D.	1	Gerhard Kostistansky	4th	4-0	60	77	0.779	1.034	1.363	6th
	3	Ramon Hamm	0	0: 4	37	62	0.596	---	---	4th
	2	Lavrentios Eleftheriadis	2	2: 2	53	82	0.654	0.882	0.882	3
E.	1	Tayfun Taşdemir	4th	4: 1	65	44	1.477	1.521	1,875	7th
	3	Mohsen Fouda	0	0: 4	33	48	0.687	---	---	3
	2	Claus Foge	2	3: 2	56	52	1.076	1.034	1,875	7th
F.	2	Jérémy Bury	2	2: 2	50	52	0.961	1.031	1,500	7th
	1	Jean-Christophe Roux	2	3: 2	66	61	1.081	1,000	3,000	5
	3	Francisco Unguetti	2	2: 3	57	54	1.055	1.031	1,500	5
G	1	Murat Naci Çoklu	4th	4: 1	70	43	1.627	1.666	3,000	8th
	2	Jozef Philipoom	2	3: 2	56	48	1.166	1,250	2.142	8th
	3	George Sakkas	0	0: 4	28	40	0.700	---	---	3
H	1	Christian Rudolph	4th	4: 1	72	57	1.263	1,448	3,000	7th
	3	Ilhan Ürküt	0	2: 4	81	72	1.125	---	1.153	10
	2	Huub Wilkowski	2	2: 3	56	71	0.788	0.954	1,000	9
I.	2	Javier Palazón	2	2: 2	43	35	1.192	1,875	2,500	6th
	1	Apostolos Balogiannis	4th	4-0	60	42	1.428	1.428	2.142	9
	3	Glenn Hofman	0	0: 4	38	34	1.085	---	---	6th
J	1	Eddy Leppens	4th	4-0	60	37	1.621	1.666	1,875	10
	2	Ricardo Garcia Alarcon	2	2: 3	56	56	1,000	1.076	1,500	7th
	3	Jarno Klompenhouwer	0	1: 4	50	57	0.877	---	0.833	10
K	2	Ruben Legazpi	2	3: 3	66	62	1.064	1,250	2.142	8th
	1	Rui Manuel Costa	4th	4: 1	70	82	0.864	1.142	1.363	7th
	3	Salah Abdin	0	1: 4	45	72	0.625	---	1.153	5
L.	2	John Tijssens	4th	4: 1	68	60	1.133	1.187	2,500	10
	1	Kostas Papakonstantinou	2	3: 2	61	64	0.953	0.909	1.666	8th
	3	Zayed Mohamed	0	0: 4	35	59	0.593	---	---	3

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 / 1.250

Wesley de Jaeger

0 / 0.685

Torbjörn Blomdahl

3 / 1.215

Jean-Christophe Roux

2 / 1.196

Adnan Yüksel

1 / 1.361

Jean-Christophe Roux

3 / 1.297

Torbjörn Blomdahl

3 / 1.709

Marco Zanetti

2 / 1.903

Rui Manuel Costa

2 / 1.075

Marco Zanetti

3 / 1.226

Marco Zanetti

3 / 1.485

Tayfun Taşdemir

2 / 1.529

Tayfun Taşdemir

3 / 1.148

Semih Saygıner

2 / 1.150

Torbjörn Blomdahl

3 / 1.857

Dick Jaspers

1 / 1.592

Peter de Backer

3 / 1.256

Gerhard Kostistansky

1 / 1.078

Peter de Backer

3 / 1.094

Kim Kyung-roul

2 / 1.038

Jean Paul de Bruijn

1 / 1.162

Kim Kyung-roul

3 / 1,500

Peter de Backer

0 / 1.750

Dick Jaspers

3 / 3.214

Eddy Merckx

2 / 1.611

Jozef Philipoom

3 / 1.416

Jozef Philipoom

1 / 1.263

Dick Jaspers

3 / 2,500

Filipos Kasidokostas

0 / 1.388

Dick Jaspers

3 / 2.250

Torbjörn Blomdahl

3 / 1.551

Martin Horn

1 / 1.571

Frédéric Caudron

3 / 1.666

Ryūji Umeda

1 / 0.964

Frédéric Caudron

3 / 2.142

Pedro Tabares

0 / 0.684

Pedro Tabares

3 / 1.050

Takao Miyashita

2 / 1.016

Frédéric Caudron

3 / 1.750

Roland Forthomme

1 / 1.259

John Tijssens

3 / 2.142

Eddy Leppens

0 / 1.421

John Tijssens

1 / 1.090

Roland Forthomme

3 / 1.735

Roland Forthomme

3 / 1.666

Sameh Sidhom

0 / 0.680

Frédéric Caudron

1 / 2,000

Martin Horn

3 / 1.956

Hwang Durk-hee

0 / 0.521

Martin Horn

3 / 1.875

Martin Horn

3 / 1.414

Nikos Polychronopoulos

2 / 1.575

Apostolos Balogiannis

2 / 0.957

Nikos Polychronopoulos

3 / 1.361

Martin Horn

3 / 1.451

Christian Rudolph

0 / 1.033

Christian Rudolph

3 / 1.607

Ihab El Messery

0 / 0.730

Christian Rudolph

3 / 1.586

Murat Naci Çoklu

2 / 1.222

Murat Naci Çoklu

3 / 1.529

Daniel Sánchez

1 / 1.303

Closing table

For the sake of clarity, not all players are listed, only the 32 participants in the final round.

Final ranking phase space Surname MP SV Pt. Recording GD BED HS BSD WRP * 1 final 1 Torbjörn Blomdahl 10 15: 6 257 175 1.468 1.857 8th 2,500 80 2 Martin Horn 8th 13: 6 237 147 1.612 1.956 11 5,000 54 Semi- finals 3 Dick Jaspers 6th 10: 4 183 81 2.259 3.214 10 5,000 38 Frédéric Caudron 6th 10: 5 191 100 1.910 2.142 15th 15,000 38 quarter- final 5 Roland Forthomme 4th 7: 4 138 88 1.568 1.735 11 3,750 26th 6th Marco Zanetti 4th 8: 7 176 119 1.478 1.485 9 2.142 26th 7th Christian Rudolph 4th 6: 5 149 104 1.432 1.607 10 5,000 26th 8th Peter de Backer 4th 6: 6 128 105 1.230 1.256 6th 5,000 26th eighth final 9 John Tijssens 2 4: 3 81 54 1,500 2.142 10 3,000 16 10 Murat Naci Çoklu 2 5: 4 107 79 1.354 1.529 11 3,000 16 11 Jean-Christophe Roux 2 5: 4 109 88 1,238 1.297 7th 3,000 16 12 Kim Kyung-roul 2 5: 4 111 90 1,233 1,500 8th 2,500 16 13 Nikos Polychronopoulos 2 5: 5 127 87 1.459 1.361 11 3,000 16 14th Tayfun Taşdemir 2 5: 5 114 88 1.295 1.148 7th 5,000 16 15th Jozef Philipoom 2 3: 5 75 55 1.363 1.416 8th 3,000 16 16 Pedro Tabares 2 3: 5 76 79 0.962 1.050 6th 1,500 16 1/16 finals 17th Eddy Merckx 0 2: 3 58 36 1.611 --- 10 3,000 8th 18th Semih Saygıner 0 2: 3 61 53 1.150 --- 10 3,000 8th 19th Rui Manuel Costa 0 2: 3 57 53 1.075 --- 7th 3,750 8th 20th Takao Miyashita 0 2: 3 60 59 1.016 --- 5 2.142 8th 21st Apostolos Balogiannis 0 2: 3 45 47 0.957 --- 9 2.142 8th 22nd Adnan Yüksel 0 1: 3 49 36 1.361 --- 8th 2.142 8th 23 Daniel Sánchez 0 1: 3 43 33 1.303 --- 5 1,875 8th 24 Jean Paul de Bruijn 0 1: 3 43 37 1.162 --- 9 2,500 8th 25th Gerhard Kostistansky 0 1: 3 41 38 1.078 --- 6th 1,500 8th 26th Ryūji Umeda 0 1: 3 27 28 0.964 --- 9 3,750 8th 27 Eddy Leppens 0 0: 3 27 19th 1.421 --- 10 --- 8th 28 Filipos Kasidokostas 0 0: 3 25th 18th 1.388 --- 8th --- 8th 29 Ihab El Messery 0 0: 3 19th 26th 0.730 --- 5 --- 8th 30th Wesley de Jaeger 0 0: 3 24 35 0.685 --- 7th --- 8th 31 Sameh Sidhom 0 0: 3 17th 25th 0.680 --- 4th --- 8th 32 Hwang Durk-hee 0 0: 3 12 22nd 0.521 --- 2 --- 8th

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. 197 . Vienna September 2007, p. 10-16 .