Three Cushion World Cup 2017/4

167th Three Cushion World Cup 2017/4
Tournament poster
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World ranking tournament
Tournament format:	Round robin / knockout system
Organizer:	UMB / CEB
Tournament details
Venue:	Pavilhão Dragão Caixa, Porto , Portugal
Opening:	3rd July 2017
Endgame:	July 9, 2017
Attendees:	149
Defending champion:	Eddy Merckx
Winner:	Kim Haeng-jik
2nd finalist:	Nguyễn Quốc Nguyện
3rd place:	Lütfi Çenet Heo Jung-han
Prize money:	€ 52,000
Records
Best GD:	2.053 Lütfi Çenet
Best ED:	5,714 Eddy Leppens
Maximum series (HS):	17 Nguyễn Quốc N.000
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The separate sports hall of the Pavilhão Dragão Caixa

Opening ceremony at the beginning of the main round on July 7, 2017

The three- cushion world cup 2017/4 was the fourth UMB / CEB world cup tournament in the 31st year of the three- cushion world cup. It took place for the first time from July 3rd to 9th at the Pavilhão Dragão Caixa sports complex at the FC Porto stadium in Porto . It was the 14th three-cushion world cup tournament, a form of carom billiards , in Portugal .

Prize money and world ranking points

From 2017, the prize money was increased to € 52,000.

	Prize money ( € )	World ranking points
winner	8,000	80
finalist	5,000	54
Semi-finalists	3,000	38
5th - 8th	1,750	26th
9-16	1,250	16
17th - 32nd	1,000	8th
qualification	-	5
P-qual	-	4th
PP qual	-	3
PPP qual	-	2
All in all	52,000	-

Tournament mode

A lot has changed in the tournament mode since 2013. The rate system was abolished because the match time could not be calculated. Matches could last between three and five sets. Good timing was therefore not possible. The game distances were set at 30 points in the pre-qualifying rounds and 40 points in the main qualification and in the knockout games. A tie is possible in the qualifying rounds. In the knockout round, overtime (shootout) is played in the event of a tie. Each of the two players starts with the initial push. Whoever scores more points wins the match. If there is also a tie in extra time, the kick starts again until a winner is determined. The shot clock was on 40 seconds.

Four qualifying rounds were played. From the last qualifying round, the 12 group winners and the three best runners-up (lucky losers) qualified for the final round. The main tournament was played with 32 participants.

In the event of a tie, the following order was taken:

1. MP = match points
2. GD = general average
3. HS = maximum series

Seeded players and wild cards

From 2017 the number of seeded players increased to 14. There are only three wild cards . One UMB wild card and two for the host.

The first 14 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 are placed at positions 1, 16, 8 and 9.

1. Dick Jaspers
2. Daniel Sánchez
3. Frédéric Caudron
4. Marco Zanetti
5. Nikos Polychronopoulos
6. Jérémy Bury
7. Torbjörn Blomdahl
8. Kim Haeng-jik
9. Sameh Sidhom
10. Cho Jae-ho
11. Eddy Merckx
12. Murat Naci Çoklu
13. Nguyễn Quốc Nguyện
14. Heo Jung-han

Wildcard player

1 × UMB  : Ihab El Messery 2 × organizing association: Cho Myung-woo , João Pedro Ferreira

Tournament commentary

qualification

From a German point of view, nine players took part, including the reigning German champion Ronny Lindemann , Martin Horn and the young hopeful Dustin Jäschke . Lindemann had to play in the PP qualification, Horn and Jäschke only in the P qualification due to their world ranking points. Both were drawn there in Group J and already met there, which means that only one of the two can move on to one round.

Horn won his first group game against Jäschke just 30:29 in 23 shots. In the second group game, Jäschke met the Korean Oh Sung-kyu and won with 30:21 in 22 shots. Horn also met the Korean in the last group game, whom he defeated in 23 shots with 30:24. After two wins, he was able to move on to one lap as group winner. Lindemann also made it into the final qualifying round as group winners. Both have thus earned four world ranking points.

In the last qualifying round, groups A, G and L separated with a competition each, so that there the best GD decided on the winner and entry into the main field. Horn won a game and was defeated by the Korean world champion from 2014 Choi Sung-won with only one point, but was best runner-up in the group and thus the best "lucky loser" for the main round. At the end of the day, Choi had the best general average (GD) with 2.666. The Belgian Eddy Leppens was able to play the best individual performance against Ma Juan Cuong from Vietnam. He beat the Asian 40:11 in just 7 shots for an ED of 5,714. Together with Choi, he also shares the best high series (HS) of 14 points.

Main round

Round 1

At the beginning there was the first big surprise in the first game. Last year's overall winner Dick Jaspers from the Netherlands was defeated by the unknown qualifier Choi Wan-jung from Korea with 32:40. The only 18-year-old reigning junior world champion Cho Myung-woo from Korea was seeded for the main draw due to a wild card issued by the host FC Porto and met Frédéric Caudron from Belgium. He lost just two points. Horn met the multiple world champion Eddy Merckx from Belgium in the first game . In the first five shots, however, he couldn't score and so after 20 minutes in the sixth shot the Belgian took the break 21-0. After the break, Horn was able to add a few points to his account, but after only 15 shots the game was over for him with 40:14. But he still takes world ranking points with him, which will secure him a better place in the following tournaments. Daniel Sánchez , who became the new number 1 in the world rankings before his first game due to Jasper's first round defeat, had to wait for this moment for eleven years. Most recently he was the best player in the world from 2004 to 2006. So he also tackled his first game and defeated the Vietnamese Ngo Ding Nai in just 11 shots miming 40:18. It was the best game of the day.

Round of 16

In the round of 16, the surprise man Choi Wan-jung continued his winning streak and kicked his compatriot and namesake Choi Sung-won from the tournament. Leppens, who until then had shown a very good performance with the best game of the entire tournament until then, failed against Sweden's Torbjörn Blomdahl in 19 shots with 40:30. Caudron lost to the strong playing Nguyốn Quốc Nguyện from Vietnam, who meets his compatriot Duong Anh Vu in the quarterfinals . This beat, also surprisingly, the last remaining young Portuguese Ferreira in the tournament. Sanchez met Merckx. Both had only needed 11 and 14 shots to win in the previous round, but both fought hard for victory and needed 27 shots to determine the winner. The Spaniard prevailed by one point.

Quarter finals

In the quarter-finals it was the final destination for Choi. Again it was a Korean game, this time against the only 25-year-old four-time junior world champion Kim Haeng-jik . Lütfi Çenet from Turkey defeated the multiple world champion and world cup winner Torbjörn Blomdahl from Sweden. The third game of this round was purely Vietnamese, with the more experienced Nguyen Quoc Nguyen prevailing against Duong Anh Vu . In the last game, the World Cup winner of 2016/4, Heo Jung-han, met Sanchez and was able to play 40:38 in the semi-finals, where there was an Asian game with Nguyen.

Semifinals

The last remaining European player Çenet played the first game of the semi-finals against junior world champion Kim Haeng-jik and loses 36:40 despite more experience. The young Korean was the first finalist. It is his first participation in the final since 2015/1 in Luxor, then against Jaspers. In the purely Asian second game, the Vietnamese Nguyen was able to prevail with 40:20 in 26 shots and was only the third player from Vietnam to reach the finals of a World Cup tournament. Tran Chi Thanh lost to Daniel Sánchez in the final in Suwon in 2007/7 and Tran Quyet Chien lost to French Jérémy Bury in Guri in 2016/5 .

final

In the purely Asian final, if both players win, it would be the first gold medal in a World Cup. Nguyen, the reigning Asian champion, would be the first Vietnamese to stand on the highest podium for his country. Kim, the reigning vice world champion, opened the game in the first shot with nine points, followed by three and five points and so after three shots it was already 17: 4 for the young Korean from Suwon . In the following 6 shots, however, he could only score one point, while the Vietnamese slowly found their way into the game and also managed a series of nine with 1, 2, 4 and in the ninth inning. So it was 18:20 at break for Nguyen. After the break, Kim had apparently regained his concentration and had increased his lead by 16 points to 34:27 by the 17th inning. Nguyen didn't come any closer with innings of 1, 3, 3, and 1. in the following innings Kim could not make more than 1 or 2 points, but came in the 23rd guild as the first to cross the finish line. Nguyen put in a final sprint with 6 points, but only got 34 points in total and thus missed his goal of becoming the first Vietnamese to win a World Cup tournament.

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 first in the group go to the final round of the best 32. The order of the players corresponds to the seeding list at the beginning of the tournament, the placement of the results after the group has ended.

Group stage qualification group space Surname MP Pt. Recording GD BED HS A. 2 Tran Quyet Chien 2 80 59 1.355 1,600 6th 3 Rui Manuel Costa 2 80 67 1.194 1,212 6th 1 Ahn Ji-hun 2 80 58 1,379 1,600 7th B. 2 Tayfun Taşdemir 2 75 51 1,470 2,000 9 1 Carlos Crespo 4th 80 62 1.290 1.290 8th 3 Hideaki Kobayashi 0 54 51 1.058 - 6th C. 1 Choi Sung-won 4th 80 30th 2,666 2,666 14th 3 Gokhan Salman 0 52 44 1.181 - 8th 2 Martin Horn 2 79 44 1,795 1,379 10 D. 1 Mã Minh Cẩm 4th 80 40 2,000 2.105 7th 2 Ronny Lindemann 2 68 50 1,360 1.290 8th 3 Mehmed Goren 0 51 52 0.980 - 7th E. 1 Kang Dong-koong 2 80 46 1,739 2.105 8th 3 Lee Choong-bok 1 68 58 1.172 1.481 8th 2 Shin Jung-ju 2 54 50 1.080 1.290 6th F. 1 Eddy Leppens 4th 80 33 2,424 5.714 14th 3 Ma Xuan Cuong 0 35 32 1.093 - 6th 2 Hwang Hyung-bum 2 70 51 1.372 1,600 6th G 3 Semih Saygıner 2 57 53 1.075 1.481 8th 1 Adnan Yüksel 2 76 50 1,560 1,739 10 2 Ahmet Alp 2 71 49 1,448 1.538 7th H 2 Javier Palazón 2 77 46 1.673 1,379 10 1 Ngo Dinh Nai 4th 80 38 2.105 2,352 6th 3 Cho Chi-yeon 0 65 50 1,300 - 7th I. 3 Riad Nady 0 64 57 1.122 - 6th 1 Kim Jae-guen 4th 80 49 1.632 1.666 6th 2 Birol Uymaz 2 68 56 1,214 1,250 7th J 1 Kim Hyung-kon 4th 80 54 1.481 1,600 10 2 Çan Çapak 2 74 72 1.027 0.930 7th 3 Antonio Montes 0 57 68 0.838 - 4th K 3 Roland Forthomme 0 68 48 1.416 - 7th 1 Lütfi Çenet 4th 80 56 1.428 1.538 9 2 Choi Wan-young 2 77 52 1,480 1,818 8th L. 1 Duong Anh Vu 2 78 60 1,300 1.333 8th 2 Jérôme Barbeillon 2 78 70 1,114 1,000 5 3 Tonny Carlsen 2 77 70 1,100 1.333 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 .)

Lucky Loser

The three best runners-up come into the main round:

• Martin Horn
• Javier Palazón
• Choi Wan-young

Final round

The tournament tree for the final round is listed below (points / recording penalty).

1/16 final (game up to 40 points)

Round of 16 (game up to 40 points)

Quarter-finals (game up to 40 points)

Semi-finals (game up to 40 points)

Final (game up to 40 points)

Dick Jaspers

32/21

Choi Wan-young

40 /21

Choi Wan-young

40 /25

Choi Sung-won

35/25

Choi Sung-won

40 /25

Adnan Yüksel

28/25

Choi Wan-young

16/22

Kim Haeng-jik

40 /22

Sameh Sidhom

40 /27

Ma Minh Cam

38/27

Sameh Sidhom

32/32

Kim Haeng-jik

40 /32

Kim Haeng-jik

40 /19

Carlos Crespo

19/19

Kim Haeng-jik

40 /23

Lütfi Çenet

36/23

Eddy Leppens

40 /25

Ahn Ji Hun

16/25

Eddy Leppens

30/19

Torbjörn Blomdahl

40 /19

Torbjörn Blomdahl

40 /21

Kim Hyung-kon

20/21

Torbjörn Blomdahl

24/17

Lütfi Çenet

40 /17

Cho Jae-ho

40 /20

Javier Palazon

32/20

Cho Jae-ho

38/19

Lütfi Çenet

40 /19

Marco Zanetti

40 / 17-2

Lütfi Çenet

40 / 17- 3

Kim Haeng-jik

40 /23

Nguyen Quoc Nguyen

34/23

Frédéric Caudron

40 /25

Cho Myung-woo

38/25

Frédéric Caudron

32/26

Nguyen Quoc Nguyen

40 /26

Nguyen Quoc Nguyen

40 /18

Ihab el Messery

14/18

Nguyen Quoc Nguyen

40 /18

Duong Anh Vu

22/18

Jérémy Bury

40 / 30-2

Duong Anh Vu

40 / 30- 3

Duong Anh Vu

40 /22

João Pedro Ferreira

28/22

Murat Naci Çoklu

37/26

João Pedro Ferreira

40 /26

Nguyen Quoc Nguyen

40 /26

Heo Jung-han

20/26

Nikos Polychronopoulos

32/16

Kang Dong-koong

40 /16

Kang Dong-koong

33/13

Heo Jung-han

40 /13

Heo Jung-han

40 /27

Kim Jae-guen

26/27

Heo Jung-han

40 /22

Daniel Sánchez

38/22

Eddy Merckx

40 /15

Martin Horn

14/15

Eddy Merckx

39/27

Daniel Sánchez

40 /27

Daniel Sánchez

40 /11

Ngo Dinh Nai

18/11

Closing table

Final ranking phase space Surname MP Pt. Recording GD BED HS WRP * 1 final 1 Kim Haeng-jik 10 200 119 1.680 2.105 9 80 2 Nguyen Quoc Nguyen 8th 194 111 1,747 2.222 17th 54 Semi- finals 3 Lütfi Çenet 6th 156 76 2.052 2,352 11 38 Heo Jung-han 6th 140 88 1,590 3.076 8th 38 quarter- final 5 Daniel Sánchez 4th 118 60 1,966 3,636 13 26th 6th Torbjörn Blomdahl 4th 104 57 1,824 2.105 8th 26th 7th Duong Anh Vu 4th 102 70 1.457 1,818 8th 26th 8th Choi Wan-young 4th 96 68 1.411 1.904 9 26th eighth final 9 Kang Dong-koong 2 73 29 2.517 2.538 8th 16 10 Cho Jae-ho 2 78 39 2,000 2,000 10 16 11 Eddy Merckx 2 79 42 1,880 2,666 7th 16 12 Eddy Leppens 2 70 44 1,590 5.714 14th 16 13 Choi Sung-won 2 75 50 1,500 2,666 14th 16 14th João Pedro Ferreira 2 68 48 1.416 1.538 7th 16 15th Frédéric Caudron 2 72 51 1.411 1,600 5 16 16 Sameh Sidhom 2 72 59 1.220 1.481 7th 16 1/16 finals 17th Marco Zanetti 0 40 17th 2,352 --- 6th 8th 18th Nikos Polychronopoulos 0 32 16 2,000 --- 15th 8th 19th Ngo Dinh Nai 0 18th 11 1.636 --- 9 8th 20th Javier Palazón 0 32 20th 1,600 --- 10 8th 21st Dick Jaspers 0 32 21st 1.523 --- 8th 8th 22nd Cho Myung-woo 0 38 25th 1.520 --- 6th 8th 23 Murat Naci Çoklu 0 37 26th 1.423 --- 5 8th 24 Ma Minh Cam 0 38 27 1.407 --- 11 8th 25th Jérémy Bury 0 40 30th 1.333 --- 7th 8th 26th Adnan Yüksel 0 28 25th 1.120 --- 10 8th 27 Carlos Crespo 0 19th 19th 1,000 --- 8th 8th 28 Kim Jae-guen 0 26th 27 0.962 --- 6th 8th 29 Kim Hyung-kon 0 20th 21st 0.952 --- 10 8th 30th Martin Horn 0 14th 15th 0.933 --- 10 8th 31 Ihab El Messery 0 14th 18th 0.777 --- 3 8th 32 Ahn Ji-hun 0 16 25th 0.640 --- 7th 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

See also

• Three Cushion World Cup 2017/1 from February 6th to 12th in Bursa , Turkey 
• Three Cushion World Cup 2017/2 from March 26th to April 1st in Luxor , Egypt 
• Three Cushion World Cup 2017/3 from May 22nd to 28th in Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam 
• Three Cushion World Cup 2017/5 from September 4th to 10th in Cheongju , South Korea 
• Three Cushion World Cup 2017/6 from October 23 to 29 in La Baule , France 
• Three Cushion World Cup 2017/7 from December 3rd to 9th in el-Guna , Egypt 

Web links

Commons : Three Cushion World Cup 2017/4  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tournament details Official website of the Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB)
• Photo gallery on Kozoom .com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} General tournament information. (PDF) Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB), accessed on June 12, 2016 (English).  
2. ↑ Markus Schönhoff: Sanchez new number one after Jaspers bankruptcy! Kozoom , July 8, 2017, accessed July 8, 2017 .  
3. ↑ ^{a b} Markus Schönhoff: Final day in Porto: 3x Asia, 1x Europe. Kozoom, July 9, 2017, accessed July 9, 2017 .  
4. ↑ Player List. (PDF) UMB, June 2017, accessed on June 28, 2017 (English).  
5. ↑ grouping. (PDF) UMB, June 2017, accessed on June 28, 2017 (English).  
6. ↑ Schedule. (PDF) UMB, June 2016, accessed on June 28, 2017 (English).  
7. ↑ Omar Samy: Results PPP qualification. (PDF) UMB, July 3, 2017, accessed on July 3, 2017 (English).  
8. ↑ Omar Samy: Results PP-Quali. (PDF) UMB, July 4, 2017, accessed on July 4, 2017 (English).  
9. ↑ Omar Samy: Results P-Quali. (PDF) UMB, July 5, 2017, accessed on July 5, 2017 (English).  
10. ↑ Omar Samy: Ranking P-Quali. (PDF) UMB, July 5, 2017, accessed on July 6, 2017 (English).  
11. ↑ Omar Samy: Results qual. (PDF) UMB, July 6, 2017, accessed on July 6, 2017 (English).  
12. ↑ ^{a b} Omar Samy: Ranking qualifying round. (PDF) UMB, July 6, 2017, accessed on July 7, 2017 (English).  
13. ^ Omar Samy: Results 16th finals. (PDF) UMB, July 7, 2017, accessed on July 7, 2017 (English).  
14. ^ Omar Samy: Results 8th note final. (PDF) UMB, July 7, 2017, accessed on July 7, 2017 (English).  
15. ↑ Omar Samy: Results quarter finals. (PDF) UMB, July 8, 2017, accessed on July 9, 2017 (English).  
16. ↑ Omar Samy: Results semi-finals & finals. (PDF) UMB, July 9, 2017, accessed on July 9, 2017 (English).