{{short description|English snooker player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}} {{Use British English|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox snooker player | name = Sue Foster | image = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = England | Sport country = {{ENG}} | Professional = | High ranking = | Official maximums = | Best finish = | Women's World champ = 1983 | medals-expand = | medals = }}
'''Sue Foster''' is an English former snooker player. She won the Women's World Snooker Championship in 1983.<ref>[https://www.womenssnooker.com/about/world-champions/ World Champions] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190818024929/https://www.womenssnooker.com/about/world-champions/ |date=18 August 2019 }} Women's World Snooker. Retrieved 22 July 2019.</ref>
==Career== Foster, from Tamworth,<ref name="OBS" /> was runner-up in the Pontins women's championships three times, in 1977, 1978 and 1982; and was national women's champion in 1980, 1982 and 1983.<ref name="HAMLYN">{{cite book |last=Morrison |first=Ian |date=1987 |title=The Hamlyn Encyclopedia of Snooker |location=Twickenham |publisher=Hamlyn Publishing Group |page=43|isbn=0600556042 }}</ref>
The 1983 Women's World Snooker Championship was sponsored by Pontins and held at their Brean Sands Holiday Park, Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset.<ref name="GUARD">{{cite news |date=28 May 1983 |title=Results |work=The Guardian|page=14 |via=NewsBank Retrieved 22 July 2019}}</ref><ref name="OBS">{{cite news |date=29 May 1983 |title=Harvey out of team |work=The Observer |page=42 |via=NewsBank. Retrieved 22 July 2019 |quote=Sue in pocket: SUE FOSTER picked up a cheque for £2,000 after clinching the women's world snooker championship, just £28,000 short of the figure Steve Davis received for taking this year's men's title. Sue, from Tamworth, beat Maureen Baynton, a 46-year-old Surrey housewife, 8-5 in the final at Brean Sands, Somerset.}}</ref> Foster won the tournament, and the £2,000 prize, by defeating Maureen Baynton, from Ewell, 8–5 in the final. The Observer noted that this was £28,000 less than the £30,000 that Steve Davis received for winning the men's World Snooker Championship that season.<ref name="OBS" />
Foster had reached the semi-final in 1981, where she lost 0–3 to Vera Selby. In 1980 she lost 0–3 to Natalie Stelmach in the quarter-final.<ref name="GUINNESS">{{cite book |last=Everton |first=Clive |date=1985 |title=Guinness Snooker: The Records |location=Enfield |publisher=Guinness Superlatives Ltd |pages=155–156 |isbn=0851124488 }}</ref> She retired from competitive snooker in 1984.<ref name="HAMLYN" />
==Achievements==
===Women's Snooker – Individual=== {| class="wikitable" ! Outcome !! No. !! Year !! Championship !! Opponent !! Score !! Ref. |- !scope="row" style="background:#ffa07a;"|Runner-up || 1 || 1977 || Pontins Women's Championships || Agnes Davies || 1–3 || <ref name="HAMLYN" /> |- !scope="row" style="background:#ffa07a;"|Runner-up || 2 || 1978 || Pontins Women's Championships || Ann Johnson || 1–3 || <ref name="HAMLYN" /> |- !scope="row" style="background:#98FB98"| Winner || 3 || 1980 || UK Women's Snooker Championships || || || <ref name="HAMLYN" /> |- !scope="row" style="background:#98FB98"| Winner || 4 || 1982 || UK Women's Snooker Championships || || || <ref name="HAMLYN" /> |- !scope="row" style="background:#ffa07a;"|Runner-up || 5 || 1982 || Pontins Women's Championships || Agnes Davies || 0–3 || <ref name="HAMLYN" /> |- !scope="row" style="background:#98FB98"| Winner || 6 || 1983 || UK Women's Snooker Championships || || || <ref name="HAMLYN" /> |- !scope="row" style="background:#98FB98"| Winner || 7 || 1983 || Women's World Snooker Championships || Maureen Baynton || 8–5 || <ref name="OBS" /><ref name="GUARD" /> |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [https://www.macearchive.org/films/atv-today-23061981-snooker Sue Foster interviewed by John Swallow], for ''ATV Today'', 23 June 1981.
{{World Women's Snooker champions|state=expanded}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Foster, Sue}} Category:Living people Category:English snooker players Category:Female snooker players Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Sportspeople from Tamworth, Staffordshire