2018 Riga Masters

The 2018 Kaspersky Riga Masters was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 27 and 29 July 2018 at the Arena Riga in Riga, Latvia. It was the first ranking event of the 2018/2019 season.

Ryan Day was the defending champion, however he lost 3–4 to Ali Carter in the last 64.

Liang Wenbo made the highest break of the tournament with 140 in the second round against Neil Robertson. Liang potted all blacks with reds during the break but this was not a maximum break as he potted 13th and 14th reds in the same shot.

Neil Robertson won the event for the second time in three years, winning his 14th ranking title, defeating Jack Lisowski 5–2 in the final. This was Lisowski's first ranking event final.

Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:


 * Winner: £50,000
 * Runner-up: £25,000
 * Semi-final: £15,000
 * Quarter-final: £6,000
 * Last 16: £4,000
 * Last 32: £3,000
 * Last 64: £1,500


 * Highest break: £2,000
 * Total: £259,000

The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £10,000

Qualifying
These matches were held between 2 and 5 July 2018 at the Preston Guild Hall in Preston, England. All matches were the best of 7 frames.


 * Notes

Televised stage centuries
Total: 31


 * 140, 110 – Liang Wenbo
 * 133 – Peter Lines
 * 128, 122, 115, 115 – Zhao Xintong
 * 125, 104, 101 – Joe Perry
 * 122 – Marco Fu
 * 121 – Jamie Jones
 * 120 – Shaun Murphy
 * 120 – Zhang Yong
 * 117, 114, 113, 110, 110, 101 – Neil Robertson
 * 115 – Fergal O'Brien
 * 115 – Chris Wakelin
 * 114 – Alfie Burden
 * 110, 109 – Stuart Carrington
 * 110 – Ben Woollaston
 * 106 – Mark King
 * 105 – Kyren Wilson
 * 103 – Ricky Walden
 * 102 – Stephen Maguire
 * 101 – Jack Lisowski

Qualifying stage centuries
Total: 18


 * 140 – Michael White
 * 137 – Scott Donaldson
 * 137 – Li Yuan
 * 137 – Noppon Saengkham
 * 133 – Kurt Maflin
 * 123, 107 – Neil Robertson
 * 118, 111 – David Lilley
 * 112 – Mark Joyce
 * 109 – Tom Ford
 * 107 – Rod Lawler
 * 106 – Ali Carter
 * 106 – Stephen Maguire
 * 105 – Liang Wenbo
 * 104 – Mark Davis
 * 102 – Yan Bingtao
 * 100 – Zhang Jiankang