2018 Riga Masters
The 2018 Kaspersky Riga Masters was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 27–29 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 £10,000Main draw
Final
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.
;NotesCentury breaks
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