2016 Riga Masters
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
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.;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