Tournament Name: | Riga Masters |
Venue: | Arena Riga |
Location: | Riga |
Country: | Latvia |
Establishment: | 2014 |
Organisation: | World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association |
Format: | Ranking event |
Prizefund: | £278,000 |
Final Year: | 2019 |
Final Champion: | Yan Bingtao |
The Riga Masters or Riga Open until 2016 (also known as the Kaspersky Riga Masters for sponsorship reasons) was a professional ranking snooker tournament. The tournament started in 2014 as a part of the Players Tour Championship and was staged at the Arena Riga in Riga, Latvia. It was the opening ranking event of the season after becoming a ranking event in 2016, until 2019. Yan Bingtao, currently banned from the World Snooker Tour, remains the defending champion having defeated Mark Joyce in the 2019 edition.
Year | Winner | Runner-up | Final score | Season | |
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Riga Open (minor-ranking) | |||||
2014[1] | Mark Selby | Mark Allen | 4–3 | 2014–15 | |
2015[2] | Barry Hawkins | Tom Ford | 4–1 | 2015–16 | |
Riga Masters (ranking) | |||||
2016[3] | Neil Robertson | Michael Holt | 5–2 | 2016–17 | |
2017[4] | Ryan Day | Stephen Maguire | 5–2 | 2017–18 | |
2018[5] | Neil Robertson | Jack Lisowski | 5–2 | 2018–19 | |
2019[6] | Yan Bingtao | Mark Joyce | 5–2 | 2019–20 |