Ali Carter won a hard-fought battle 4-3 against defending champion Ryan Day in the first round of the Riga Masters on Friday.

The event in Latvia is the first ranking event of the new season, and Carter opened with a break of 75 before Day responded with 88.

In the third frame a long red got Day in but he couldn’t capitalise, scoring just 15 before he allowed Carter back to the table.
Although Carter couldn’t completely clean up he did enough to win the frame and take a 2-1 lead.

Carter missed a red for frame ball in the fourth thanks to some shenanigans with the spider, and Day took advantage when he came to the table to level up.

A couple of tense snooker battles followed and both players made errors, only for Carter to eventually triumph.

Source - eurosport