The three- cushion world cup 2011/2 was the second UMB / CEB world cup tournament in the 25th year of the three-cushion world cup. The tournament took place from June 27 to July 3, 2011 in the Portuguese port city of Matosinhos . It was the tenth World Cup tournament in Portugal.
The second tournament of 2011 took place from June 27th to July 3rd in the Portuguese port city of Matosinhos near Porto . 135 billiards athletes started.
The Korean Heo Jung-han achieved the best result of the qualifying round. In his first group game against Turkey's Hakan Inçekara, he easily won 2-0 (15: 9 and 15: 5) in two sets with an individual average ( ED ) of 2.307. In the second game against Ly The Vieh from Vietnam he increased his performance again and sent him home with 15: 2 and 15: 9. That earned him an ED of 3,000 and a General Average (GD) of 2.608. Another surprise was the Spaniard Sergio Jimenez, who was the only P qualifier to make it into the "Best 32" group. In his group he beat the last remaining German, Ronny Lindemann from Witten, as well as the only remaining Austrian Gerhard Kostistansky. In the first round, however, he had to admit defeat to his compatriot and ex-world champion Daniel Sánchez , even if only just 2: 3 (4:15, 15:14, 8:15, 15: 9 and 5:15) .
The only seeded German player in the main round, Martin Horn from Essen, was not up to the Belgian qualifier Eddy Leppens in his first round match and lost 1: 3 (7:15, 15: 8, 9:15, 5:15). In the final, Spaniard Daniel Sánchez won 3: 2 (11:15, 5:15, 15:12, 15: 4 and 15: 9) against Frédéric Caudron from Belgium after a 2-0 set deficit . However, the best GD of the entire tournament was played by Dick Jaspers from the Netherlands with 1.953.
Four qualifying rounds were played in Matosinhos. From the last qualifying round, the 12 group winners qualified 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 qualifying rounds, two sets of 15 points each were played in round robin mode. All games were played with a push . The shot clock was set to 50 seconds per shot.
In the event of a tie, the following order will be applied:
The first 12 players in the world rankings and the wildcard players automatically took part as players in the tournament in the knockout round. The first four of the world rankings were placed in positions 1, 16, 8 and 9.
Wildcard players:
2 × organizing association of the host country: Rui-Manuel Costa, Pedro Pais
1 × CEB : Nikos Polychronopoulos
2 × CPB : Javier Teran, Luis Aveiga
2 × ACBC : Lee Choog-bok, Ryūji Umeda
1 × UMB : Jozef Philipoom
PortugalPortugal Greece EcuadorEcuador Korea SouthJapan Belgium
Qualifying round
For the sake of clarity, qualification rounds 1, 2 and 3 are not shown. These can be looked up under the links at the UMB.
The three-cushion World Cup was organized by the founding association, the " Billiards Worldcup Association " (BWA) until 1998 . Disputes between the BWA and the world association Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB) led to parallel tournaments between 1994 and 1997. The UMB / BWA organized the tournament together until the beginning of 1999. Since the dissolution of the BWA in 1999, the UMB has been the sole organizer. From 1988-1991 the UMB did not host any world championships. During this time, the annual overall winner of the World Cup was crowned world champion.