Women's three-cushion world championship

Women's three-cushion world championship
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	Ranking tournament
Tournament format:	Round robin / knock-out
Association / host:	UMB
Tournament details
Venue:	changing
Playing time:	since 1999
Current title holder:	Therese Klompenhouwer
Records
Most wins: 6 ×
Orie Hida
Best GD: 1.125
Therese Klompenhouwer 2019, Valencia
Best ED: 1.785
Orie Hida 1999, Heemstede
Maximum series (HS): 10
Orie Hida 1999, Heemstede
Position map
Heemstede Hoensbroek Gandia Valencia Sivas Sinop Zoersel Izmir Big map of Europe. Small map of Japan and Korea Tokyo Guri

The women's three-cushion world championship has been held in the three- cushion carom variant since 2004 . In 1999 and 2002 there were two preliminary tournaments.

history

Due to the positive development of the World Challenge tournaments and the junior world championships , the call for a similar tournament among the women grew louder and louder. For this reason, the women's three-cushion scene was increasingly promoted around the turn of the last century. To this end, a so-called “Ladies Tour” was organized in the Netherlands , Belgium , Germany and Spain . As with the juniors, a test run was started, in 1999 the “Ladies World Masters” in the Netherlands and in 2002 the “1st World Challenge” in Spain. In 2004 the first official World Cup finally took place, with the approval of the world collision association UMB ( Union Mondiale de Billard ). It was planned that it would be held every two years, alternating with the Junior Three Cushion World Championship and the Women's Three Cushion European Championship. In 2010, however, there was no World Cup. It is organized by the UMB.

The Japanese Orie Hida won all tournaments from 1999 to 2008 and is the sole record holder. She was replaced in 2012 by Natsumi Higashiuchi, also from Japan.

Summary World Cup 2012

The reigning vice world champion Karina Jetten from the Netherlands managed to defeat the Japanese series winner in the last match of the qualification with a margin of 25:24 in 2012 and thus to throw her out of the tournament prematurely. Previously, Hida had clearly lost to her Japanese colleague Namiko Hayashi by 13:25 and thus only reached 3rd place in the group stage. With 0.826 she had the best general average, but the placement was not enough for the quarter-finals.

The final round was played from the quarter-finals. The field was dominated by the Asians (4 Japanese and 2 Koreans). The Netherlands alone, Karina Jetten and Therese Klompenhouwer, were able to send two Europeans into the final. All Japanese women were able to prevail against their competitors in the quarter-finals, so that the semi-finals were already an internal matter for the host country. In the final, Natsumi Higashiuchi then clearly prevailed against Yuko Nishimoto with 25:15 in 19 shots ( ED 1,316). She also played the best individual average of the tournament. Japan was once again able to provide the winner and now holds all six titles (including preliminary tournaments). The German-Turkish Gülşen Degener also played under her usual performance and only came in 10th in the final ranking. From a European point of view, Therese Klompenhouwer was Hida's successor and favorite of the tournament, but she also failed in the quarterfinals and ended up in 7th place at the beginning of December she is the only woman to take part in the third three-cushion World Cup of the year in Hurghada, Egypt . Overall, none of the players managed to play a GD above 1, they are far below the level of 1999. For men, the best GD at the last World Cup was 1.983, played by Eddy Merckx . However, the fact that all of the World Cup champions and all of the podium finishes at the last World Cup come from the same country is probably unique in the sport of billiards. Of all 24 medals awarded so far, Japan has taken home 14.

Tournament mode

In the two “trial tournaments”, a fixed point distance was initially played, which was then given up at the official world championships in favor of the set system. For all tournaments, the 3rd place was / will not be played out and there were / are two bonze medal winners.

Preliminary tournaments

In 1999 at the “Ladies World Masters” there were eight participants who were divided into two groups of four players each. In the preliminary round you played on 25 points, from the semi-finals onwards on 30 points.

In 2002 the number of participants doubled to 16 in four groups of four players each. In contrast to the “Ladies World Masters”, the tournament was played to 30 points with an admission limit of 60.

World championships

• At the first World Cup in 2004, the game system was changed and played on two sets of 10 points each, from 2006 onwards on 12 points per set.
• In 2012, the shot clock was first introduced for women and set to 40 seconds.
• The number of 16 participants was retained, as was the group distribution. In 2008 it was changed again to the effect that the group phase was played on winning games (best of 3) with a push . 2019 will be played for the first time with a field of 24 participants.

New regulations from January 1, 2020

round	mode	distance	Follow-up	Penalty	Shot clock
Group stage	Group of 3, Round Robin	25th			3 × 30s
from 8el finals	Single, knockout system	30th			3 × 30s

Prize money and world ranking points

For the first time, prize money was awarded at the World Cup in 2018, and the prize money was doubled in 2019.

	Prize money ( € )	WRL points
winner	(1 ×) 4,000	120
finalist	(1 ×) 3,000	81
Semi-finalists	(2 ×) 2,000	57
05th - 08th	(4 ×) 1,500	39
09-16	(8 ×) 1,000	24
17th - 24th	(8 ×) 800	12
All in all	27,000	-

Tournament statistics

The GD indicates the general average of the respective player during the tournament.

Preliminary tournaments to the World Cup
No.	year	place	Winner	GD	Runner-up	GD	Semi-finalist 1	GD	Semi-finalist 2	GD
-	1999 * 1	Heemstede	Orie Hida	1.080	Gerrie Geelen	0.723	Maggy Bley	0.517	Natasha Al-Mamar	0.387
-	2002 * 2	Gandia	Orie Hida	0.857	Ayako Maehara	0.572	Kazumi Hida	0.652	Gülşen Degener	0.581
World championships
1	2004	Valencia	Orie Hida	0.718	Gerrie Geelen	0.578	Akane Imaizumi	0.600	Ayako Maehara	0.715
2	2006	Hoensbroek	Orie Hida	0.815	Therese Klompenhouwer	0.701	Gülşen Degener	0.601	Ayako Maehara	0.878
3	2008	Sivas	Orie Hida	0.947	Karina Jetten	0.523	Gülşen Degener	0.543	Park Su-ah	0.480
4th	2012	Tokyo	Natsumi Higashiuchi	0.753	Yuko Nishimoto	0.773	Ayaka Fukumoto	0.693	Namiko Hayashi	0.633
5	2014	Sinop	Therese Klompenhouwer	1.102	Yuko Nishimoto	0.733	Lee Shin-young	0.660	Danielle le Bruijn	0.605
6th	2016	Guri	Therese Klompenhouwer	1.122	Lee Mee-rae	0.825	Yuko Nishimoto	0.677	Orie Hida	0.881
7th	2017	Zoersel	Orie Hida	0.868	Lee Mee-rae	0.640	Gülşen Degener	0.703	Marianne Mortensen	0.601
8th	2018	Izmir	Therese Klompenhouwer	0.887	Orie Hida	1.082	Pheavy Sruong	0.884	Gülşen Degener	0.729
9	2019	Valencia	Therese Klompenhouwer	1.125	Orie Hida	0.981	Pheavy Sruong	0.696	Ayako Sakai	0.664
10	2021	Antalya

Remarks

^{* 1} preliminary tournament as "Ladies World Masters"

^{* 2} preliminary tournament as "1st World Challenge"

See also

• Three-cushion world championship
• Three-cushion world championship for national teams
• Three-cushion world championship for juniors
• Three cushion world cup

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 3 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 1731-1739 .
2. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 3 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 1741 .
3. ↑ Results group stage World Cup 2012 (PDF; 144 kB) on UMB.org. Retrieved November 22, 2012.
4. ↑ Results of the group stage World Cup 2012 on Kozoom.com. Retrieved November 22, 2012.
5. ↑ Results of the quarter-finals World Cup 2012 (PDF; 29 kB) on UMB.org. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
6. ↑ Results of the semifinals / final World Cup 2012 (PDF; 35 kB) on UMB.org. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
7. ↑ Final table WM 2012 (PDF; 68 kB) on UMB.org. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
8. ↑ ^{a b} Markus Schönhoff: Women's World Cup: 24 participants; Steffi Daske and double the prize money. Kozoom , August 31, 2019, accessed September 2, 2019 .  
9. ↑ Prize money. (PDF) UMB, September 2, 2019, accessed on September 2, 2019 (English).