1984 Costa Del Sol Classic 1984 Costa Del Sol Classic The 1984 Costa Del Sol Classic was a professional invitational snooker tournament which took place in August 1984. The tournament was held at the Las Palmeras Hotel in Fuengirola, Spain, and featured 12 professional players. The four qualifying matches were played under a best-of-five frames format, as were the quarter-finals and semi-finals, and the final best of nine. Dennis Taylor won the event, beating Mike Hallett 5–2 in the final, which was twenty-five-year old Hallett's first as a professional. Four players participated in qualifying for the quarter-finals, to which Tony Knowles, Taylor, Joe Johnson and
Costa del Sol to dock cruise ships, neither operates regular service to other ports. The port of Bajadilla is also home to the fishermen's guild of Marbella and is used for the transport of goods. AVE ("Alta Velocidad Española", AVE), a high-speed rail service operated by Renfe, the Spanish national railway company, inaugurated the Córdoba-Málaga high-speed rail line, a standard gauge railway line in length, on 24 December 2007. Designed for speeds of and compatibility with neighbouring countries' rail systems, it connects Málaga and Córdoba. Native cuisine on the Costa del Sol, as in the rest of Andalusia, has been influenced historically by