Crystal Kelly Cup

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The Crystal Kelly Cup or Crystal Kelly Tournament (sometimes: Chrystal Kelly) was a prestigious, generously funded carom billiards invitational tournament in the discipline of three-cushion, which has been held at different venues from 1994 to 2011, a total of 18 times, mostly in Monte Carlo and Nice.

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History

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The tournament was launched in 1994 by the businessman and software-founder of Volmac (since 1992 it belongs to the Cap Gemini Group [2] ), Joop van Oosterom, who is also a billiards and chess enthusiast. The tournament was named after his daughter Crystal Kelly van Oosterom, as well as for the Dutch Eredivisie club of "Crystal Kelly," which was also very successful. In 1992 Joop already dedicated Melody Amber, a blindfold and correspondence chess tournament, to his other daughter.

In 2010, Joop announced that he will give up the sponsorship the following year. Thus, the 2011-tournament was the last. Raymond Ceulemans, the three-cushion-legend form Belgium, was part of the tournament from the beginning on, from 1994 to 2006 as a player, in the early years he finished he still finished as a front runner, though he never could win the tournament. After his retirement from active billiards sports (2006) he was the tournament director. Torbjörn Blomdahl and Dick Jaspers participated in all 18 tournaments, in which the latter is eight times record winner of the tournament and Blomdahl was second with 5 wins.

It was carrying out 13 times in Monte Carlo, 3 times in Nice and one time in Scheveningen and Antwerp as of the end of the season in early June. The only exception was in 2005 when the tournament was held in late August.

The tournament was one of the best-paid - the prizes were ever tournament always around U.S. $70,000, there were extra bonuses for services paid and the winner took home about $20,000 - its kind, similar to the AGIPI Billiard Masters in Schiltigheim, France and it was considered as "The little World Championship". Among the players who called the tournament also "The Monaco", it had a high reputation and everyone gladly followed the invitation of van Oosterom. They were all, including their wives/partners, flown in and have been guests of the family van Oosterom for a week. There was just one game each day for everyone on the time table, and so there was a lot of time for trips and excursions.

Only participant from America was Sang Chun Lee from the USA .

Tournament structure

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The number of participants ranged between eight and ten players. A total of 17 different players in the tournament. Many players have been invited over the years, such as: Semih Saygıner (16 ×), Frédéric Caudron (15 ×), Frans van Kuijk (13 ×), Marco Zanetti (11 ×) and Daniel Sánchez (8 ×). In the last tournament in 2011 the ten participants were divided into two groups of five players each.

These were:

The first stage was played in the round-robin mode with equal innings. The final round was played in a knock-out mode as first to 50 points without equal innings. The places 3-10 were played out.

Winners table

Legend
CodeExplanation
GAGeneral Average = all points ÷ all innings
SpASpecial Average = best average in a single game (points ÷ innings)
HRHighest Run = longest series of caroms (within single game)
Statistic
No.YearVenue1. Place2. Place3. Placebest GAHRRefs.
11994 Flag of Monaco.svg Monte Carlo Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers Flag of Sweden.svg Torbjörn Blomdahl Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Ludo Dielis 1,840 • Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers 15 • Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers [3]
21995 Flag of Monaco.svg Monte Carlo Flag of Sweden.svg Torbjörn Blomdahl [1] Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Raymond Ceulemans 2,324 • Flag of Sweden.svg Torbjörn Blomdahl 13 • Flag of the United States.svg Sang Lee [4]
31996 Flag of Monaco.svg Monte Carlo Flag of Sweden.svg Torbjörn Blomdahl Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Raymond Ceulemans Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers 2,160 • Flag of Sweden.svg Torbjörn Blomdahl 15 • Flag of Sweden.svg Torbjörn Blomdahl [5]
41997 Flag of Monaco.svg Monte Carlo Flag of Sweden.svg Torbjörn Blomdahl Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers Flag of Turkey.svg Semih Saygıner 1,977 • Flag of Sweden.svg Torbjörn Blomdahl 15 • Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Raymond Ceulemans [6]
51998 Flag of Monaco.svg Monte Carlo Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Frédéric Caudron Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers [2] Flag of Sweden.svg Torbjörn Blomdahl 2,156 • Flag of Sweden.svg Torbjörn Blomdahl 21 • Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers [7]
61999 [3] Flag of Monaco.svg Monte Carlo Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers Flag of Sweden.svg Torbjörn Blomdahl Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Frédéric Caudron 2,035 • Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers 15 • Flag of the Netherlands.svg Frans van Kuyk [8]
72000 Flag of Monaco.svg Monte Carlo Flag of Sweden.svg Torbjörn Blomdahl Flag of the Netherlands.svg Frans van Kuyk Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Frédéric Caudron 1,800 • Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Frédéric Caudron 13 • Flag of Sweden.svg Torbjörn Blomdahl [9]
82001 Flag of Monaco.svg Monte Carlo Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers Flag of Turkey.svg Semih Saygıner Flag of Denmark.svg Dion Nelin 1,832 • Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers 18 • Flag of Denmark.svg Dion Nelin [10]
92002 Flag of Monaco.svg Monte Carlo Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers [4] Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Frédéric Caudron Flag of Turkey.svg Semih Saygıner 2,537 • Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers 19 • Flag of Sweden.svg Torbjörn Blomdahl [11]
102003 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Scheveningen Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Frédéric Caudron Flag of Sweden.svg Torbjörn Blomdahl 2,318 • Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers 18 • Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Raymond Ceulemans [12]
112004 Flag of Monaco.svg Monte Carlo Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers Flag of Spain.svg Daniel Sánchez Flag of the Netherlands.svg Frans van Kuyk 2,258 • Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers 15 • Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers [13]
122005 Flag of Monaco.svg Monte Carlo Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers Flag of Sweden.svg Torbjörn Blomdahl Flag of Turkey.svg Semih Saygıner 2,013 • Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers 13 • Flag of Sweden.svg Torbjörn Blomdahl [14]
132006 Flag of Monaco.svg Monte Carlo Flag of Sweden.svg Torbjörn Blomdahl [5] Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Frédéric Caudron 2,289 • Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers 19 • Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Frédéric Caudron [15]
142007 Flag of Monaco.svg Monte Carlo Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers Flag of Spain.svg Daniel Sánchez Flag of the Netherlands.svg Raimond Burgman 2,174 • Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers 13 • Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers [16]
152008 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Antwerp Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Frédéric Caudron Flag of Sweden.svg Torbjörn Blomdahl Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers 1,983 • Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Eddy Merckx 21 • Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Frédéric Caudron [17]
162009 [6] Flag of France.svg Nice Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Frédéric Caudron Flag of Sweden.svg Torbjörn Blomdahl Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Eddy Merckx 2,126 • Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Frédéric Caudron 13 • Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Frédéric Caudron [18]
172010 Flag of France.svg Nice Flag of Italy.svg Marco Zanetti Flag of Sweden.svg Torbjörn Blomdahl Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers [7] 2,472 • Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers 15 • Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Eddy Merckx [19]
182011 Flag of France.svg Nice Flag of Greece.svg Filippos Kasidokostas Flag of Italy.svg Marco Zanetti Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers 2,623 • Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers [8] 15 • Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers [20]
Notes
Eternal winner list
NameNo.Years
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers 81994, 1999, 2001–2005, 2007
Flag of Sweden.svg Torbjörn Blomdahl 51995–1997, 2000, 2006
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Frédéric Caudron 31998, 2008, 2009
Flag of Italy.svg Marco Zanetti 12010
Flag of Greece.svg Filippos Kasidokostas 12011

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