Suzie Terry

Suzie Terry
Sport country England
Highest ranking5[1]

Suzie Terry (née Opacic)[1] is an English snooker player from Eastleigh.[2] Winner of the 2006 World Ladies Junior Championship, she has twice reached the semi-finals of both the UK Women's Championship and the British Women's Open, and is a two-time runner-up (with Laura Evans) at the World Women's Pairs Championship.

Biography

Opacic started playing snooker at the age of eight, after watching it on television. She was playing on full-sized tables by the age of nine.[3]

She joined the women's snooker circuit in 2006. She won the World Ladies Junior Championship in the same year, and by 2009 had reached four semi-finals, the UK Women's Championship in 2006 and 2007 and the British Women's Open in 2007 and 2009.[2] She attended Bournemouth University, studying geography. In 2006, she was unable to represent her league team Pot Black against Netley Central social club, as club rules excluded female players.[4][5] Eight months later, the club overturned its ban on female players.[6]

She took four-year break from competition while studying for a master's degree, but also from disillusionment with the reduced number of tournaments and players.[7] She returned to competitive snooker in 2015.[2]

With her playing partner Laura Evans, Opacic was runner-up in the World Women's Pairs Championship in both 2017 and 2018.[8]

She works as a planning manager.[1] She was a town planner in Heathrow Airport's Expansion team, working on obtaining planning approvals for the proposed new runway and related developments.[2][3]

Titles and achievements

  • 2006 World Ladies Junior Championship winner
  • 2006 UK Women's Championship semi-finalist
  • 2007 UK Women's Championship semi-finalist
  • 2007 Ladies British Open semi-finalist
  • 2009 Ladies British Open semi-finalist
  • 2016 Connie Gough Trophy semi-finalist
  • 2017 LITEtask World Women's 10-Red Championship semi-finalist
  • 2017 Women's Pairs Championship runner-up (with Laura Evans)
  • 2018 Eden Women's Masters semi-finalist
  • 2018 Women's Pairs Championship runner-up (with Laura Evans)

References

  1. ^ a b c "Suzie Terry". womenssnooker.com. World Women's Snooker. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d "Suzie Opacic". womenssnooker.com. World Women's Snooker. Archived from the original on 22 August 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Heathrow women's snooker ace to take on the World in Malta". Your Heathrow. LHR Airports Limited. 13 March 2018. Retrieved 6 September 2019.[permanent dead link‍]
  4. ^ Daily Echo Reporter, Sarah (14 December 2006). "Cue for a wrong?". Bournemouth Echo. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  5. ^ Getty, Sarah (14 December 2006). "Club bans women's snooker champ". Metro. Archived from the original on 27 June 2015. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  6. ^ "Suzie leaves the chaps snookered". Daily Echo. 21 August 2017 – via NewsBank. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  7. ^ "Opacic Plans Flying Start at UK Women's Championship". wpbsa.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 27 September 2017. Archived from the original on 2 October 2017. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  8. ^ "Dudley snooker stars Reanne Evans and Maria Catalano win world pairs title". Halesowen News. 23 April 2018. Retrieved 6 September 2019.