Riga Masters 2018: When does the new snooker season start? Draw, schedule, live stream
RIGA MASTERS 2018: The 2018/19 snooker season begins in Latvia with Ryan Day looking to defend his title.
The win for the Welshman last year was his first ranking title success in 19 years as a professional.
The 38-year-old had previously appeared in foru ranking finals before his victory in Latvia.
Day beat Stephen Maguire 5-2 in the final before going on to win the Gibraltar Open and Romanian Masters later in the season.
The 2018 Riga Masters will run from July 27 to 29 with many of snooker’s top stars battling it out for the first piece of silverware of the new campaign.
The event will take place at Arena Riga in the Latvian capital with the winner taking home a cool £50,000.
RIGA MASTERS 2018: FIRST ROUND DRAW AND SCHEDULE
Friday 27 July
9am
Latvia Rodion Judin (a)v Jimmy White [62]
Graeme Dott [17] vs Maris Volajs (a)
10:30am
Stuart Carrington [42] vs Fergal O'Brien [43]
David Lilley (a) vs Shaun Murphy [3]
Nigel Bond [70] vs Zhao Xintong
11am
Scott Donaldson [49] vs Robin Hull [66]
Zhou Yuelong [28] vs Craig Steadman
Kurt Maflin [37] vs Liang Wenbo [14]
1pm
Li Yuan [67] vs Neil Robertson [5]
Michael White [24] vs David B Gilbert [22]
Rory McLeod [53] vs Zhang Yong [64]
2pm
Joe Perry [15] vs Robert Milkins [30]
Stephen Maguire [12] vs Gerard Greene [58]
Lee Walker vs Joe O'Connor
3pm
Barry Hawkins [2] vs Li Hang [31]
Niu Zhuang [72] vs Simon Bedford (a)
Liam Highfield [51] vs Michael Holt [26]
4pm
Mark Allen [7] vs Peter Lines [65]
Tian Pengfei vs Dott/Volajs
Ashley Carty vs Anthony McGill [9]
5pm
Ricky Walden [23] vs Judin/White
Ali Carter [6] vs Ryan Day [11]
Luke Simmonds (a) vs Kyren Wilson [4]
Xiao Guodong [20] vs Marco Fu [13]
6pm
Mark Davis [35] vs Luca Brecel [10]
Mark Williams [1] vs Ben Woollaston [32]
Oliver Lines vs Alfie Burden
Ian Burns [63] vs Jack Lisowski [21]
RIGA MASTERS 2018: HOW TO WATCH - TV AND LIVE STREAM
You can watch the action on Eurosport or stream it live via the the Eurosport Player.
Here’s the broadcast schedule for the entire event:
Friday, July 27
1330-2130 (ES2)
Saturday, July 28
0200-0400 (ES2)
0800-1515 (ES2)
1645-2030 (ES2)
Sunday, July 29
0200-0315 (ES2)
0900-1200 (ES1)
1700-2140 (ES2)