Frédéric Caudron

Frédéric Caudron
Personal details
birthday	27th January 1968 (age 52)
place of birth	Mons , Belgium
nationality	Belgium
Nickname (s)	"L'Extraterrestre" ("The Extraterrestrial")
Active time	since 1987
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Best ED: 6.666
(1997)
Best GD: 2.791
(National Ranking Tournament, 2016, Damprémy)
Maximum series (HS): 28
(EM 2013, Brandenburg / Havel)
World Championships:
11 ×
Continental Championships:
14 ×
Other tournaments:
91 × Belgian champion
World rankings
Highest WRL place:	1
Current WRL location:	2 (as of September 2018)
Societies)
BC La Baule BC 1921 Elversberg Sporting Portugal BC De Goeie Queue AEJ / Dallinga

Frédéric Caudron (born January 27, 1968 in Mons , Belgium ) is a Belgian carom player and multiple world champion.

Career

Beginnings and general

As the son of a father who was enthusiastic about billiards, he started playing billiards at a very early age and won his first tournaments with the Belgian youth team at the age of 10. At the age of 18 he played in all disciplines in the highest classes and at world level. In 1987 he won his first title as European youth champion in Cadre  47/2 - in 1990 the first European Championship title followed in a cover , in 1991 the first World Cup title (Cadre 71/2) and in 1994 the first national three- cushion title.

Since 1990 there have been innumerable national and international tournament victories and titles and his GDs in particular define Frédéric Caudron as one of the best and most versatile carom players in the world. He is continuing the tradition of top Belgian players that began with René Vingerhoedt in the 1940s and was continued by Raymond Ceulemans in the 1960s.

The 2 titans of three-cushion billiards

An extraordinary individual duel took place from June 27 to 30, 2012 in Marxuquera, Spain, at the invitation match "The 2 titans of three-cushion billiards" between Caudron (world number one 2012) and the reigning world champion Dick Jaspers . Only these two players were invited. The game was set at a distance of 600 points, these were played in ten sessions of 60 points each. The shot clock was set to 40 seconds, with an extension of 1 × 40 seconds per session. Caudron dominated the game from the start and was able to expand his lead over the course of the match. The best session was the seventh in which he in 41 minutes in seven recordings played 51 points. In the end he prevailed against the Dutchman with 600: 501 points and took home the winner's bonus of € 10,000, Jaspers still got € 5,000 for his efforts. The GD of the players was 2.189 for Caudron and 1.835 for Jaspers.

2012/13 season

After Caudron held first place in the world rankings for a long time, he had to give it back to the old master Torbjörn Blomdahl from Sweden after the three-cushion World Cup 2012/2 in Suwon, South Korea , as he had previously won the tournament in Lommel (super prestige, second behind Eddy Merckx ) and the World Cup (joint third with the Italian Marco Zanetti ) could not complete as successfully as it would have been necessary to keep the world rankings.

Together with Eddy Leppens he plays for the Belgian club BC De Goeie Queue, among others . In Germany he competes in the 1st Bundesliga with BC 1921 Elversberg .

At the Belgian championship from January 6 to 13, 2013 in Blankenberge , he secured three of the six titles to be awarded as favorites. In Cadre 47/1 and 71/2, as well as cover Caudron was successful, in the supreme discipline three cushion he had to admit defeat in the semifinals eddy leppens. The title then went to Roland Forthomme in a dramatic game with two extensions , who also set the world record with a series of 28 and now holds it together with his compatriot Raymond Ceulemans and Junichi Komori from Japan.

On March 17, 2013 he was in the final of the Lausanne Billard Masters (LBM) and played there against Marco Zanetti. He lost 40:33. Just a week later, the two players faced each other again in a final, this time at the AGIPI Billiard Masters . This time too he did not succeed in beating the Bolzano man. He lost to his colleague from BC AGIPI Courbevoie with 50:40 points. At the European Championships in April, he met Marco Zanetti for the third time in a row and suffered a third defeat, but this time in the semi-finals. For this he was able to score points after the defeat in the three-cushion cover and did a hat trick .

From 2013/14

In 2014 he only got third place with Daniel Sánchez from Spain after losing in the semi-finals to Martin Horn at the LBM . In 2016 he was in the final again, this time he had to admit defeat to the Spaniard. In the semifinals he had previously been successful against Zanetti.

UMB lock 2019

Caudron signed a contract with the newly formed Professional Billiards Association (of Korea) PBA in spring 2019 . Its sponsor, Kimchi Queues, is a co-founder and owner of the association. Since the PBA is not a member of the UMB, players who take part in PBA tournaments are banned from participating in the tournament for one year, up to a maximum of three years. This ended his UMB season at the end of the 2018/19 season. He then left the UMB.

Season 2019/20 (PBA)

On September 15th, Caudron celebrated his first victory at the PBA Tour (TS Shampoo Tournament) after an early elimination in previous tournaments. He is in second place with € 81,000 winners, just behind the Greek Filipos Kasidokostas with € 87,000. However, the checks are apparently not paid out, but offset against the agreed guarantee amount.

successes

• 16 × Player of the Year in Belgium (continuously since 2002)
• Three-cushion world championship : 1999, 2013, 2017
• Three-cushion world championship for national teams : 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
• Three- cushion World Cup overall winner 2005, 2009, 2014
• 21 × tournament winners in the three- cushion World Cup (as of: 2019/05)
• Cadre 47/2 World Championship : 2003
• Cadre 71/2 World Championship : 1991, 2000
• Three Cushion European Championship (individual): 2002, 2006
• European three-cushion championship for national teams : 2019 2013, 2015
• Single binding European championship : 1990, 1991, 1993, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017
• Cadre 47/1 European Championship : 2004
• Cadre 47/2 European Championship : 2009
• Cadre 71/2 European Championship : 1991
• European pentathlon championships for national teams ( TEP ): 1990
• Crystal Kelly Tournament : 1998, 2008, 2009
• Lausanne Billiards Masters : 2013, 2016 2014
• LG U + Cup 3-Cushion Masters : 2018 2015, 2017
• McCreery three-cushion Champion of Champions : 2018
• Three Cushion Challenge Masters : 2019/1
• PBA tour: 2019/4
• Belgian three- cushion championship : 1994, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2016, 2017, 2019 1995, 2001,2002, 2011, 2012, 2018 1998, 2000, 2008
• Won all 6 national championship titles in Belgium in 2007

Personal best

• World record tournament GD Cadre 47/1 with 133.33 (Belgian championships 2010)
• Belgian record and highest known tournament GD Cadre 71/2 with 111.11 GD (2003 and 2009)
• Belgian record Free game with 400 GD in a tournament (no incorrect entry, 2007)
• Belgian record and world record Cadre 47/1 with 133.33 GD (Belgian championships 2010)
• Belgian record Cadre 47/2 with 200 GD (Belgian championships, 2011)
• Belgian record and highest known tournament GD cover with 27.27 (2007)
• Best three-cushion tournament: 2,790 (2016) (BTS Tournament in Dampremy)
• Best three-cushion game: 45 points in 9 recordings (5.00 ED) 1997
• Highest series three cushion: 28 (04/2013)

Web links

Commons : Frédéric Caudron  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Frédéric Caudron - Homepage
• Caudron run 28 points on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ UMB: World Players Ranking. (PDF; 1.48 MB). Current world ranking, September 12, 2018, accessed on September 12, 2018.
2. ↑ Who is the best in the world ??? On: Kozoom.com. Announcement of "The 2 titans of three-cushion billiards". June 19, 2012. Retrieved July 6, 2012.
3. ^ Rules. (PDF; 102 kB). On: Kozoom.com. Rules for "The 2 Titans of Three-Cushion Billiards". Retrieved July 6, 2012.
4. ↑ Caudron finally ascends the three-volume throne. On: Kozoom.com. Tournament commentary on "The 2 titans of three-cushion billiards". July 2, 2012, accessed July 6, 2012.
5. ↑ Overall result. On: Kozoom.com. Retrieved July 8, 2012.
6. ↑ Schedule of the Belgian Championships 2012/13. (PDF; 656 kB). Retrieved January 9, 2013.
7. ^ Markus Schönhoff: European Championship title for Zanetti after dramatic semi-finals; Silver for Rudolph. Kozoom .com, April 14, 2013, accessed on December 29, 2016 : "But now Caudron is demonstrating his strength and playing a dizzying series of 28 points." 
8. ↑ Markus Schönhoff: UMB officially publishes the locks. Kozoom , June 10, 2019, accessed September 1, 2019 .  
9. ↑ Markus Schönhoff: UMB is serious - locks are through! Kozoom, July 15, 2019, accessed September 1, 2019 .  
10. ↑ Markus Schönhoff: Caudron wins his first PBA tournament. Kozoom, September 15, 2019, archived from the original on September 18, 2019 ; accessed on September 18, 2019 .