Suzie Opacic

Suzie Opacic (born 1988)[2] is an English snooker 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.

Suzie Opacic
Born1988 (age 32–33)
Sport country England
Highest ranking5[1]

Biography

Opacic is from Eastleigh[1] 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.[3]

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).[1] Opacic attended Bournemouth University, studying geography. 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.[4][5] Eight months later, the Club overturned its ban on women playing.[6]

Opacic took a break of four years from competition, mainly due to 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.[1]

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

Opacic's main career is as a town planner in Heathrow Airport's Expansion team, working on obtaining planning approvals for the proposed new runway and related developments.[1][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. "Suzie Opacic". womenssnooker.com. World Women's Snooker. Archived from the original on 22 August 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  2. England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index. General Register Office; United Kingdom; Reference: Volume 20, Page 2508. Via ancestry.com
  3. "Heathrow womens' snooker ace to take on the World in Malta". Your Heathrow. LHR Airports Limited. 13 March 2018. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  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.
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