Tournament Name: | Riga Masters |
Venue: | Arena Riga |
Location: | Riga |
Country: | Latvia |
Organisation: | World Snooker |
Format: | Ranking event |
Total Prize Fund: | £227,000 |
Winners Share: | £50,000 |
Highest Break: | (140) |
Score: | 5–2 |
Previous: | 2016 |
Next: | 2018 |
The 2017 Kaspersky Riga Masters was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 23 and 25 June 2017 at the Arena Riga in Riga, Latvia.[1] It was the first ranking event of the 2017/2018 season.[2] The tournament was broadcast by Eurosport.
Neil Robertson was the defending champion, but he lost in the first round to Lukas Kleckers.[3]
Ryan Day claimed the first ranking title of his career by defeating Stephen Maguire 5–2 in the final.
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[4]
The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £10,000
Final: Best of 9 frames. Referee: Ben Williams. Arena Riga, Riga, Latvia, 25 June 2017. | |||
Stephen Maguire | 2–5 | Ryan Day | |
33–78 (59), 50–76,,,,, | |||
119 | Highest break | 77 | |
1 | Century breaks | 0 | |
1 | 50+ breaks | 3 |
These matches were played between 31 May and 2 June 2017 at the Preston Guild Hall in Preston, England. All matches were best of 7 frames.[5]
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3–4 | Thepchaiya Un-Nooh | ||||
Michael Georgiou | 4–1 | Sanderson Lam | |||
0–4 | Stuart Carrington | ||||
Anthony McGill | 4–0[6] | Tatjana Vasiljeva[7] | |||
3–4 | Kurt Maflin | ||||
William Lemons | 1–4 | Alan McManus | |||
3–4 | Eden Sharav | ||||
Jimmy White | 4–3 | Jak Jones | |||
Gary Wilson | 4–2 | Hu Hao | |||
Ken Doherty | 4–2 | Peter Lines | |||
0–4 | Robin Hull | ||||
Rodion Judin[8] | 4–0[9] | Chen Zhe | |||
Alex Borg | w/o–w/d | Mark Selby | |||
Zhang Anda | 4–2 | Allan Taylor | |||
w/d–w/o | Hammad Miah | ||||
Tom Ford | 4–2 | Hamza Akbar | |||
Jimmy Robertson | 4–2 | Martin O'Donnell | |||
Declan Brennan | 3–4 | John Astley | |||
3–4 | Jamie Curtis-Barrett | ||||
2–4 | Andrew Higginson | ||||
Stuart Bingham | 4–1 | Li Hang | |||
0–4 | Mark Davis | ||||
Sam Craigie | 4–3 | Soheil Vahedi | |||
Jamie Jones | 4–2 | Fergal O'Brien | |||
3–4 | Matthew Stevens | ||||
Jack Lisowski | 4–3 | Mark Allen | |||
Daniel Ward | 2–4[10] | Neil Robertson | |||
Lukas Kleckers | w/o–w/d | Li Yuan | |||
Oliver Lines | 4–3 | Yuan Sijun | |||
3–4 | Christopher Keogan | ||||
Stephen Maguire | 4–0 | Ian Burns | |||
Gerard Greene | 4–1 | Zhang Yong |
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3–4 | Hossein Vafaei | ||||
0–4 | Mark King | ||||
Paul Davison | w/o–w/d | Niu Zhuang | |||
Zhou Yuelong | 4–0 | Kurt Dunham | |||
Charlie Walters | w/d–w/o | David Gilbert | |||
3–4 | Joe Perry | ||||
Tian Pengfei | 4–2 | Scott Donaldson | |||
Ben Jones | 4–1 | Mike Dunn | |||
Wang Yuchen | w/o–w/d | Rod Lawler | |||
Robert Milkins | 4–1 | Aditya Mehta | |||
Barry Hawkins | 4–2 | Michael Holt | |||
1–4 | Ryan Day | ||||
Craig Steadman | 4–1 | Lyu Haotian | |||
Chen Zifan | 4–2 | Ross Muir | |||
1–4 | Ben Woollaston | ||||
0–4 | Kyren Wilson | ||||
Nigel Bond | 4–1 | Dominic Dale | |||
James Silverwood | 1–4 | Jackson Page | |||
0–4 | Xiao Guodong | ||||
Mark Joyce | 4–1 | Fang Xiongman | |||
1–4 | Noppon Saengkham | ||||
0–4 | Cao Yupeng | ||||
3–4 | Sam Baird | ||||
Michael White | 4–1 | Rhys Clark | |||
0–4 | Alexander Ursenbacher | ||||
Elliot Slessor | 4–0 | Jamie Clarke | |||
Robbie Williams | 4–2 | Xu Si | |||
1–4 | Ashley Carty | ||||
Mark Williams | w/o–w/d | Yu Delu | |||
0–4 | Peter Ebdon | ||||
2–4 | Luca Brecel | ||||
Lee Walker | 4–1 | Mei Xiwen |
Total: 24
Total: 14