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1993 Dubai Classic

snooker tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ4037653 ↗
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The 1993 Dubai Duty Free Classic was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 4 and 10 October 1993 at the Al Nasr Stadium in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Stephen Hendry won the tournament, defeating Steve Davis 9–3 in the final. The defending champion John Parrott was eliminated by Andy Hicks in the last 16 round.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Dubai, Classic and snooker can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “1993 Dubai Classic” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.