The European Tour 2015/2016 – Event 1 (also known as the 2015 Kaspersky Lab Riga Open) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament which took place between 29 July and 2 August 2015 at the Arena Riga in Riga, Latvia.

Mark Selby was the defending champion, but he lost 1–4 to Ken Doherty in the Last 32.

Barry Hawkins won the tournament, defeating Tom Ford 4–1 in the final.

Prize fund The breakdown of prize money of the event is shown below: Prize fund Winner €25,000 Runner-up €12,000 Semi-finalist €6,000 Quarter-finalist €4,000 Last 16 €2,300 Last 32 €1,200 Last 64 €700 Total €125,000

Main draw

Preliminary rounds

Round 1 Best of 7 frames

Simon Dent 4–0 Anita Maflin Samuel Thistlewhite 4–1 Hans Blanckaert Antonis Poullous 0–4 Kishan Hirani Elliot Slessor w/d–w/o Vilius Schulte-Ebbert Arpat Pulat 1–4 Josh Mulholland Tetyana Volovelska 0–4 Christopher Keogan Brian Cini 2–4 Anna Prisjaznuka Aleksandr Kurgankov 4–3 Andrew Urbaniak Ben Jones 3–4 Jurian Heusdens Shannon Dixon w/o–w/d Michael Williams Conor McCormack 2–4 Richard Beckham Keishin Kamihasi w/o–w/d Adam Duffy Julian Mills w/o–w/d Chris Norbury Maris Volajs 4–3 Tatjana Vasiljeva Thomas Rees 4–2 Mateusz Baranowski Darren Cook w/d–w/o Jake Nicholson Lieven Vanthournout 0–4 Zack Richardson Walter Theuma 0–4 Sascha Lippe Bhavesh Sodha w/d–w/o Lukas Kleckers

Andreas Ploner 4–1 Louis Heathcote Joe O'Connor 4–1 Adam Edge Tomasz Skalski 4–0 Maxim Maximov Charlie Walters w/d–w/o Ryan Causton Brendan O'Donoghue 3–4 Roman Dietzel William Lemons w/d–w/o Callum Lloyd Anthony Jeffers 4–1 Thomas Barton John Parkin 2–4 Jamie Clarke Daniel O'Regan 2–4 Alex Borg Chris Mason 0–4 Jeff Cundy Heath Williams 4–3 Freddie Blunden Jeff Jacobs 1–4 Shachar Ruberg Joe Steele 4–2 Jack Bradford Oliver Brown w/d–w/o Sascha Breuer Dessie Sheehan 4–1 Arsen Balishyan Ejler Hame 1–4 Robin Otto Lewis John Calcutt 4–0 Dana Amir Saqib Nasir 4–1 Kacper Filipiak

Round 2 Best of 7 frames

Sam Harvey 4–3 Simon Dent Alex Taubman 1–4 Samuel Thistlewhite Patrick Whelan 1–4 Kishan Hirani Vilius Schulte-Ebbert 1–4 Josh Mulholland Gunars Puce 0–4 Christopher Keogan Arturs Klindzans 1–4 Anna Prisjaznuka Andres Petrov 4–2 Aleksandr Kurgankov Jurian Heusdens 4–1 Shannon Dixon Mario Brincat 1–4 Richard Beckham Phil O'Kane 4–0 Keishin Kamihashi Nico Elton 1–4 Julian Mills Rodion Judin 4–3 Maris Volajs Corina Maracine 0–4 Thomas Rees Jake Nicholson 0–4 Zack Richardson Sascha Lippe 1–4 Lukas Kleckers

Shaun Sultana 0–4 Andreas Ploner Michael Collumb 0–4 Joe O'Connor Tony Corrigan 2–4 Tomasz Skalski Hammad Miah 4–0 Ryan Causton George Parkin 0–4 Roman Dietzel Matthew Glasby 1–4 Callum Lloyd Anthony Jeffers 0–4 Jamie Clarke Ashley Carty 1–4 Alex Borg Kobi Mates n/s–w/o Jeff Cundy Joe Roberts 4–1 Heath Williams Shachar Ruberg 3–4 Joe Steele Damian Wilks 4–3 Sascha Breuer Dessie Sheehan 3–4 Robin Otto Josh Boileau w/d–w/o Lewis John Calcutt Ashley Hugill 4–0 Saqib Nasir

Main rounds

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Bottom half

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

Finals

Final Final: Best of 7 frames. Referee: Milosz Olborski.Arena Riga, Riga, Latvia, 2 August 2015. Tom Ford 1–4 Barry Hawkins 72–30 (67), 0–73 (65), , , 67 Highest break 65 0 Century breaks 0 1 50+ breaks 3

Century breaks

142, 130 Ricky Walden 140, 132, 108 Graeme Dott 128, 120 Barry Hawkins 127, 104 Ali Carter 127 Tom Ford 126, 118 Matthew Selt 124 Matthew Stevens 123, 105 Alan McManus 122 Robin Hull 119, 117, 110 Judd Trump 119 Mark Selby 119 Christopher Keogan 116 Jamie Clarke 113, 107 Stephen Maguire 112 Joe Roberts 111, 104 Andreas Ploner

109 Liang Wenbo 108, 104 Joe Perry 108 Mark Williams 106 Jimmy White 105 Ken Doherty 105 Ryan Day 105 Joe O'Connor 102, 100 Ben Woollaston 102 Craig Steadman 102 Michael White 102 Peter Ebdon 101, 101 Mark Allen 101 Anthony McGill 101 Stuart Bingham 101 Dominic Dale

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