1993 Nescafe Extra Challenge
{{Infobox Individual Snooker Tournament
|tournament_name=Nescafé Extra Challenge
|dates=8–10 January 1993
|location=Bangkok
|country={{THA}}
|organisation=
|format=Non-ranking event
|Total prize fund=£30,000
|winners_share=£10,500
|highest_break={{flagathlete|James Wattana|THA}} (102)
|winner={{flagathlete|Ronnie O'Sullivan|ENG}}
|runner_up={{flagathlete|James Wattana|THA}}
|score=Round-Robin
|previous=1991
|next=
}}
The 1993 Nescafé Extra Challenge was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that was played in Bangkok, Thailand in January 1993.{{cite news| title=Ronnie delight | newspaper=Daily Mirror| date=11 January 1993| via=NewsBank}} Four players participated - Alan McManus, Ronnie O'Sullivan, John Parrott and James Wattana. 17 year old O'Sullivan won the tournament to collect his first professional title.{{cite web|title=Other Non-Ranking and Invitation Events|url=http://www.cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/misc3.html#Nescafe|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216160441/http://www.cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/misc3.html#Nescafe|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 February 2012|publisher=Chris Turner's Snooker Archive|accessdate=23 January 2018}}{{cite book|last=Layton|first=Eric|title=Cuesport Book of Professional Snooker|page=163}} As champion, O'Sullivan received £10,500 from the total prize fund of £30,000. The tournament was played in a Round-Robin group format.
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League phase
If points were level then most frames won determined their positions.{{cite magazine |title=O'Sullivan's Nescafe pot |magazine=Snooker Scene |date=February 1993 |page=7 }}
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|Winner | style="text-align:left;"|{{nowrap|{{flagathlete|Ronnie O'Sullivan|ENG}}}}
|3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 8 | +5 | 4 |
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|{{nowrap|Runner-up}} | style="text-align:left;"|{{flagathlete|James Wattana|THA}}
|3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 | style="text-align:left;"|{{flagathlete|John Parrott|ENG}}
|3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 13| | ||
| 1 | 2 | ||||||
| 4 | style="text-align:left;"|{{flagathlete|Alan McManus|SCO}}
|3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 13| | ||
| 4 | 2 |
- 8 January{{citenews|title=Snooker|work=Scotland on Sunday|page=21|date=10 January 1993}}
- Ronnie O'Sullivan 5–3 Alan McManus
- James Wattana 5–4 John Parrott
- 9 January
- Ronnie O'Sullivan 5–0 James Wattana
- Alan McManus 5–3 John Parrott
- 10 January{{citenews|title=First for O'Sullivan|work=Leicester Daily Mercury|page=28|date=11 January 1993}}
- James Wattana 5–1 Alan McManus
- John Parrott 5–3 Ronnie O'Sullivan
Century breaks
The following century breaks were made at the tournament.
- 102 {{ndash}} James Wattana
- 101 {{ndash}} Ronnie O'Sullivan
- 101 {{ndash}} John Parrott