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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.
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]