The 2016 Kaspersky Riga Masters was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 22 and 24 June 2016 at the Arena Riga in Riga, Latvia. It was the first ranking event of the 2016/2017 season.
This was the first time for which the event was a ranking tournament, having previously been a minor-ranking event of the Players Tour Championship.
Barry Hawkins was the defending champion, but he decided not to defend his title.
Neil Robertson won the 12th ranking title of his career, defeating Michael Holt 5–2 in the final, from trailing 1–2.
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: €3,000 Last 32: €1,400 Last 64: €700
Non-televised highest break: €200 Televised highest break: €2,000 Total: €200,000
The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £25,000.
Main draw
Final Final: Best of 9 frames. Referee: Desislava Bozhilova.Arena Riga, Riga, Latvia, 24 June 2016. Neil Robertson 5–2 Michael Holt 87–56 (Robertson 56), 40–72, , , , , 79 Highest break 39 0 Century breaks 0 3 50+ breaks 0
Qualifying These matches were held between 3 and 4 June 2016 at the Preston Guild Hall in Preston, England. All matches were best of 7 frames.
Yu Delu 1–4 Sean O'Sullivan Luca Brecel 4–0 Hatem Yassen David Gilbert 4–3 Alfie Burden Sam Baird 4–1 Daniel Wells Jamie Jones 4–1 Jamie Curtis-Barrett Jamie Burnett 1–4 Gary Wilson Kurt Maflin 3–4 Gareth Allen Xiao Guodong 4–2 Steven Hallworth Alex Borg 1–4 Jack Lisowski Ryan Day 4–2 Rory Thor Peter Lines 1–4 Ken Doherty Noppon Saengkham 4–1 Ashley Hugill Zhao Xintong 4–1 Itaro Santos James Cahill 4–2 Robert Milkins Ben Woollaston 1–4 Adam Stefanow Bradley Jones 3–4Match was held over and played in Riga. Darren MorganWildcard Elliot Slessor 1–4 Hossein Vafaei Matthew Selt w/d–w/o Matthew Stevens Tian Pengfei 4–3 Mike Dunn Allan Taylor 4–2 Liam Highfield Eden Sharav 0–4 Stuart Carrington David Grace 2–4 Joe Swail Michael Georgiou 4–2 Wang Yuchen Michael Collumb 2–4 Neil Robertson Christopher Keogan 4–1 Hammad Miah Zhou Yuelong 4–1 Hamza Akbar Rhys Clark 0–4 Judd Trump Chris Wakelin 4–1 Rod Lawler Marco Fu 4–1 Tatjana Vasiljeva Graeme Dott 4–2 Duane Jones Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 3–4 John Higgins Mark King 4–3 Oliver Lines
Michael Wild 2–4 Li Hang Chen Zhe 4–1 Josh Boileau Ali Carter 4–0 Paul Davison Mark Joyce 3–4 Zhang Yong Mark Allen w/d–w/o Jak Jones Alan McManus 2–4 Jamie Cope Louis Heathcote 1–4 Mark Williams Anthony Hamilton 3–4 Mark Davis Dechawat Poomjaeng 4–2 Jason Weston Jimmy Robertson 4–0 Oliver Brown Martin O'Donnell 4–3 Daniel Womersley Brandon Sargeant 2–4 Sam Craigie Andy Hicks w/o–w/d Leo Fernandez Stephen Maguire 2–4 Fang Xiongman Craig Steadman 2–4 John Astley Peter Ebdon 2–4 Joe Perry Zhang Anda 4–3 Charlie Walters Rory McLeod 4–1 Robin Hull Andrew Higginson 4–2 Dominic Dale Nigel Bond 1–4 Anthony McGill Martin Gould 4–0 Zak Surety David John w/d–w/o Tom Ford Ross Muir 2–4 Fraser Patrick Mitchell Mann 0–4 Yan Bingtao Darryl Hill 1–4 Stuart Bingham Lee Walker 4–1 Sydney Wilson Adam Duffy 4–2 Robbie Williams Sanderson Lam 3–4 Fergal O'Brien Scott Donaldson 3–4 Michael Holt Sunny Akani 3–4 Mark Selby Ian Burns 4–2 Kurt Dunham Antony Parsons 2–4 Kyren Wilson
Notes
Century breaks
Qualifying stage centuries Total: 15
135, 111 John Higgins 131 Mark King 124, 100 Stuart Carrington 121 Anthony Hamilton 111 Li Hang 110, 108 Mark Williams
110 John Astley 110 Peter Ebdon 108 Zhang Anda 104 Mike Dunn 103 Mark Selby 101 Joe Perry
Televised stage centuries Total: 31
138 Martin O'Donnell 135 Zhao Xintong 134, 102 Jimmy Robertson 132 Zhou Yuelong 130 Ian Burns 125 Mark Davis 124 Gary Wilson 123 Mark Williams 118 Michael Holt 117, 110, 107 John Astley 115 Stuart Bingham 112, 107 Anthony McGill
108, 104, 100, 100 Neil Robertson 108 Li Hang 106 Stuart Carrington 105, 100 Sean O'Sullivan 105 Fergal O'Brien 105 Jack Lisowski 103 Yan Bingtao 103 Judd Trump 102 Xiao Guodong 101 Jamie Cope 100 Marco Fu
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