Suzie Terry (formerly Suzie Opacic) is an

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player. She won the 2006 World Ladies Junior Championship and is an active player on the women's professional snooker circuit, who has reached the semi-finals of several ranking tournaments.

Biography

Terry is from

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and 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. She joined the women's snooker circuit in 2006, aged 17-year-old in her first year, she won the World Ladies Junior Championship, and by 2009 had reached four semi-finals – two each UK Women's Championship (2006 and 2007) and the Ladies British Open (2007 and 2009). Terry attended

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, studying

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. In 2006, at the age of 18, and having already won the Junior Championship, she was unable to represent her league team when they had a match against Netley Central social club, as women were not allowed to play there. Eight months later, the Club overturned its ban on women playing. Terry took a break of four years from competition, mainly due to studying for a

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, but also from disillusionment with the reduced number of tournaments and players. She returned to competitive snooker in 2015. With her playing partner

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, Opacic was a runner-up in the Women's Pairs Championship in both 2017 and 2018. Terry's main career is as a Planning Manager. She was a town planner in

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team, working on obtaining planning approvals for the proposed new runway and related developments.

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

) *2018 Eden Women's Masters semi-finalist *2018 Women's Pairs Championship runner-up (with

)

References

External links

EPSB – Your Cue To Play with Suzie Opacic
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Suzie Opacic vs Jaique Ip
2018 World Women's Snooker Championship {{DEFAULTSORT:Terry, Suzie Living people 1988 births English snooker players Female snooker players People from Eastleigh Alumni of Bournemouth University