The Riga Masters or Riga Open until 2016 (also known as the Kaspersky Riga Masters for sponsorship reasons) was a professional ranking snooker tournament. The tournament started in 2014 as a part of the Players Tour Championship and was staged at the Arena Riga in Riga, Latvia. It was the opening ranking event of the season after becoming a ranking event in 2016, until 2019. Yan Bingtao, banned from the World Snooker Tour until December 2027, remains the defending champion having defeated Mark Joyce in the 2019 edition.
Winners Year Winner Runner-up Final score Season Riga Open (minor-ranking) 2014 Mark Selby Mark Allen 4–3 2014–15 2015 Barry Hawkins Tom Ford 4–1 2015–16 Riga Masters (ranking) 2016 Neil Robertson Michael Holt 5–2 2016–17 2017 Ryan Day Stephen Maguire 5–2 2017–18 2018 Neil Robertson Jack Lisowski 5–2 2018–19 2019 Yan Bingtao Mark Joyce 5–2 2019–20
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