News about 3-Cushion Billiards from around the world.
The current 3-cushion world champion Dick Jaspers is now the 2019 European champion, cementing his well-deserved number one ranking. In the continental championships held in Brandenburg, Germany the Dutchman secured the title with a victory over the reigning 2018 champion Marco Zanetti of Italy.
Vietnam’s Tran Quyet Chien came from behind to defeat Korean billiards prodigy Cho Myung-woo in the three-cushion carom final at the 10th Asian Carom Billiards Championship 2019 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Pictured above L to R this year's top four: Myung-Woo Cho (2nd), Quyet Chien Tran (1st), Dong-Koong Kang (Korea) and Nguyen Trung Hau Do Vietnam sharing 3rd/4th.
Murat Naci Coklu and Lufti Cenet of Turkey, playing for the first time together as teammates, defeated the Netherlands contingent of Dick Jaspers and Raymond Burgman to take the 2019 title in the World Championship for National Teams.
Europe, led by Frederic Caudron, finished on top as the first World Team Trophy in cue sports concluded in Roissy-en-France near Paris. The event featured a new format of competition involving men and women competing in snooker, carom and pool all in the same arena. Pictured above (L to R) European Men: Kyren Wilson (Snooker), Frédéric Caudron (3C), Joshua Filler (Pool). Asian Women: Sruong Pheavy (3C), Ga Young Kim (Pool) and Amee Kamani (Snooker)
A professional league for billiards, a sport enjoyed by some 10 million Koreans as a hobby, has been scheduled to launch in Korea. The 3-Cushion Billiard world reacted with mixed feelings as the new upstart organization is seen as a threat to the UMB's exclusive hold on the governance of the sport.