Ludo Dielis

Ludo Dielis
Personal details
birthday	23rd February 1945 (age 75)
place of birth	Deurne
nationality	Belgium
Active time	1986-2000
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Best GD: 1.794
(1994 – Crystal Kelly Tournament, Monte Carlo , Monaco )
Maximum series (HS): 20 (three-cushion); 2010 (Cadre 47/2)
(Dutch Honorary Division)
World Championships:
8 × individual world champions 1 × team world champions
Continental Championships:
14 × individual European champions 6 × team world champions
Other tournaments:
37 × Belgian champion
World rankings
Highest WRL place:	-
Current WRL location:	-
Societies)
• BC Deurne

Ludo Dielis (born February 23, 1945 in Deurne ) is a Belgian carom player .

Life

Together with Jos Vervest (2 × world champion in Cadre 47/2) he started playing billiards at the age of 11 in the Billiard Palace Antwerp . His parents opened a billiard room 5 years later, when he was 16, where he trained with his father and Vervest.

1977, when Dielis was 22 years old, he married Diane Liebens with whom he is still in a relationship today. They have a son together.

Ludo Dielis, the Flemish from Deurne, a district of Antwerp, has achieved almost everything that can be achieved in the course of his career as an athlete, but his career was not free from tragedy. Because he was always in the shadow of his legendary compatriot Raymond Ceulemans. The fact that he did not break down because of this difficult situation is certainly due to the fact that he has both feet firmly on the ground and that he keeps putting things right for himself: "Billiards is not everything in the world." This realization, which he only made his way through at the end of the eighties, will not have been easy for him, as his whole life as a professional and as the owner of a billiard café in Deurne, where he was born and where he lives, revolves around playing with cues and balls.

Professionally, Dielis initially continued his parents' billiard room, then his own (together with his wife), and later he was responsible for public relations at Minolta .

During his professional time he trained about six hours a day, in addition he played 600-1000 points in the cover and 3 games with 60 points each in three-cushion.

Among his students is the double world champion in three cushion, Eddy Merckx .

Career

He then started his career at the Altijd Raak billiards club, where his father also played. As he got better quickly, his father decided to train him with ex-world champion Jos Vervest. At the age of 17 he qualified for an international tournament for the first time. It was the European Junior Championship in Berlin . And on December 16, 1962, his first international success was perfect. He was European junior champion in a duel (Free Game & Cadre 47/2). Third place in this tournament was Dieter Müller from Berlin . At the age of 21 he reached the honorary class in Belgium in all disciplines. No Belgian billiards player has managed that before. In the same year he became Belgian champion for the first time. It was in the cover. Three years later it was back in Berlin where he won his first international senior title. At the pentathlon World Cup he won ahead of his compatriot Raymond Ceulemans and Dieter Müller. In May 1971 the first European title followed in his special discipline binding. However, Ludo Dielis achieved his most extraordinary performance in Cadre 47/2. He set a record for the ages. At the European pentathlon in his hometown of Deurne in April 1973, he set a series world record (extended) of 2010 points, the record, like the average of 217.00, is still valid today (as of Jan. 2013) . In the first 5 games he only needed 1 shot up to 400 and started the sixth game with 10 collisions. Together with his Belgian compatriot Raymond Ceulemans, both of them said goodbye to the classic billiards disciplines at the one-binding European championships in Dülmen in 1986. Both then only played three cushion. At the age of 55, Ludo Dielis ended his billiards career in 2000.

Dielis is the organizer of the three cushion world championship in October 2013 in his hometown Antwerp. He also sat on the jury of the Artistic Snooker World Cup ( Trickshot ) several times , which was organized by Barry Hearn and Frans van Dijck in Antwerp.

successes

• Pentathlon World Championship : 1969, 1981
• Binding World Championship : 1974, 1981 and 1983
• Cadre 47/1 World Championship : 1977
• Three-cushion world championship : 1981 and 1989
• European championship in cover: single-cover EM 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1980, 1981, 1983
• European champion in the pentathlon: Pentathlon Championships in 1971, 1977

• European pentathlon championships for national teams : 1969, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1985, 1992 1967, 1977, 1983 1979, 1981
• European champion in Cadre 71/2: Cadre 71/2 EM 1973
• European champion in the free game: Free game EM 1975
• European Champion in Cadre 47/1: Cadre-47/1-EM 1977, 1979, 1980
• Belgian three-cushion championship : 1982, 1983, 1985 1972, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1984 1974, 1996, 1997
• Belgian champion: 37 × in various disciplines

Web links

Commons : Ludo Dielis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Photo by Ludo Dielis 1957
• Photo by Ludo Dielis date unknown
• Player statistics on Kozoom.com
• official homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Interview on Kozoom.com. Retrieved December 23, 2012
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Ludo Dielis three-cushion WM 2013 will be a big party  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Interview on Kozoom.com. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
3. ↑ Ludo Dielis in the Munzinger archive , accessed on June 25, 2012 ( beginning of the article freely available)