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was a professional

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tournament that took place at the

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, England. The event started on 12 November 1993, and the televised stages were shown on BBC between 20 and 28 November 1993. The highest break of the tournament was a 141 made by

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became the youngest winner of a ranking event at the age of 17 years and 358 days by defeating

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10–6 in the final; as of 2023 this record still stands. This was the first of O'Sullivan's record seven titles at the tournament.

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: *Total Prize money: £375,000 *Winner: £70,000 *Runner-up: £35,000 *Semi-Final: £18,500 *Quarter-Final: £10,325 *Last 16: £5,250 *Last 32: £3,000 *Last 64: £1,850 *Last 96: £650 *Last 128: £475 *High break (TV stages): £3,000 *High break (Pre TV stages): £1,500 *Maximum break (TV stage): £20,000 *Maximum break (Pre TV stage): £5,000

Main draw

Final

Century breaks

All Rounds * 141

* 140

Stuart Pettman Stuart Pettman (born 24 April 1975) is an English former professional snooker player and author. The Preston native has qualified for the World Championship three times, in 2003, 2004 and 2010. He beat 2005 champion Shaun Murphy in qualifying t ...

* 138, 120

John Parrott John Stephen Parrott, (born 11 May 1964) is an English former professional snooker player and television personality. He was a familiar face on the professional snooker circuit during the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, and remained within ...

* 136 Nick Walker * 135 Jim Chambers * 132, 131, 123, 114, 111, 109, 109, 108, 107, 106

* 131

Mike Hallett Mike Hallett (born 6 July 1959) is an English former professional snooker player and commentator. Career Hallett was born in Grimsby on 6 July 1959. Having won the national under-16 title in 1975, he turned professional in 1979. His world ran ...

* 131 John Shilton * 129, 128, 106, 105

Darren Morgan Darren Morgan (born 3 May 1966) is a Welsh former professional snooker player who now competes as an amateur. Morgan won the World Amateur Championship in 1987 and played on the professional main tour from 1988 until 2006. He earned just ov ...

* 126, 115, 103 Martin O'Neill * 126, 110, 106

Steve Davis Steve Davis (born 22 August 1957) is an English retired professional snooker player who is currently a commentator, musician, DJ, and author. He is best known for dominating professional snooker during the 1980s, when he reached eight World S ...

* 122, 121, 118, 114, 113, 107, 105, 103

* 122, 120, 106

Tony Drago Tony Drago (born 22 September 1965) is a Maltese former professional snooker and pool player. Known for his speed around the table, during his snooker career he won two professional titles: the 1993 Strachan Challenge Event 3 and the 1996 G ...

* 121, 114

Ken Doherty Ken Doherty (born 17 September 1969) is an Irish professional snooker player, commentator and radio presenter. As an amateur, Doherty won the Irish Amateur Championship twice, the World Under-21 Amateur Championship and the World Amateur C ...

* 120, 115, 110 Anthony Hamilton * 119 Richy McDonald * 116, 109, 100

Dave Harold David Harold (born 9 December 1966) is an English former professional snooker player from Stoke-on-Trent. He was known by the nicknames of "the Hard Man" and "the Stoke Potter" (conflating his home city's pottery industry and his profession of ...

* 116

Alex Borg Alex Borg (born 5 June 1969 in Mellieha) is a Maltese former professional snooker player. Borg currently resides in Mellieha, Malta. Career Borg first turned professional in 1991, and regularly appeared as a wild card in the Malta Grand Prix, ...

* 114, 106 Joe Canny * 112 Wilfred Dijkstra * 112 Daniel Haenga * 111 Spencer Dunn * 109, 103, 101

Jimmy White James Warren White (born 2 May 1962) is an English professional snooker player who has won three seniors World titles. Nicknamed "The Whirlwind" because of his fluid, attacking style of play, White is the 1980 World Amateur Champion, 2009 ...

* 109 Tony Jones * 108 Mark Whatley * 106

Matthew Couch Matthew Couch (born 30 June 1974) is an English former professional snooker player. Career During a professional career lasting from 1992 to 2012, Couch had little success in ranking events, although he reached the quarter-finals of the UK Ch ...

* 106

Paul McPhillips Paul McPhillips (born 27 March 1971) is a Scottish former professional snooker player. He is best known as the regular practice partner of Stephen Hendry. Amateur career McPhillips was the UK Junior Champion in 1987. In 1990, he was defeated by ...

* 106 Paul Tanner * 105

Troy Shaw Troy Shaw (born 6 October 1969) is an English former professional snooker player. Career Competing on the main tour from 1991, Shaw won the second leg of minor ranking tournament the Strachan Challenge in 1993, beating Nigel Bond in the fin ...

* 102, 101

Nigel Bond Nigel Bond (born 15 November 1965) is an English former professional snooker player. Bond competed on the main tour from 1989 to 2022, and was ranked within the world's top 16 players between 1992 and 1999, peaking at 5th for the 1996–97 s ...

* 102 Martin Clark * 102 Anthony Harris * 102 Sonic Multani * 102 James Wattana * 101 Gay Burns * 100

Dean Reynolds Dean Reynolds (born 11 January 1963 in Grimsby) is an English former professional snooker player whose career spanned twenty years from 1981 to 2001. Career Before turning professional, Reynolds won the first-ever Junior Pot Black in 1981, b ...

References

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