# Sue Foster

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{{short description|English snooker player}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2019}}
{{Infobox snooker player
| name          = Sue Foster
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| birth_date    = 
| birth_place   = England
| Sport country = {{ENG}}
| Professional  = 
| High ranking  = 
| Official maximums = 
| Best finish   = 
| Women's World champ   = [1983](/source/1983_Women's_World_Snooker_Championship)
| medals-expand = 
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}}

'''Sue Foster''' is an [English](/source/English_people) former [snooker](/source/snooker) player. She won the [Women's World Snooker Championship in 1983](/source/1983_Women's_World_Snooker_Championship).<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](/source/Tamworth%2C_Staffordshire),<ref name="OBS" /> was runner-up in the [Pontins](/source/Pontins_Open) 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](/source/Pontins) and held at their Brean Sands Holiday Park, [Burnham-on-Sea](/source/Burnham-on-Sea), Somerset.<ref name="GUARD">{{cite news |date=28 May 1983 |title=Results |work=[The Guardian](/source/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](/source/The_Observer) |page=42 |via=[NewsBank](/source/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](/source/Maureen_Baynton), from [Ewell](/source/Ewell), 8–5 in the final. [The Observer](/source/The_Observer) noted that this was £28,000 less than the £30,000 that [Steve Davis](/source/Steve_Davis) received for winning the men's [World Snooker Championship](/source/World_Snooker_Championship) that season.<ref name="OBS" />

Foster had reached the semi-final in 1981, where she lost 0–3 to [Vera Selby](/source/Vera_Selby). In 1980 she lost 0–3 to [Natalie Stelmach](/source/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](/source/Pontins_Open) Women's Championships || [Agnes Davies](/source/Agnes_Davies) || 1–3 || <ref name="HAMLYN" />
|-
!scope="row" style="background:#ffa07a;"|Runner-up
 || 2 || 1978 || [Pontins](/source/Pontins_Open) 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](/source/Pontins_Open) Women's Championships || [Agnes Davies](/source/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](/source/1983_Women's_World_Snooker_Championship) || [Maureen Baynton](/source/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](/source/ATV_Today)'', 23 June 1981.

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Category:Living people
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Category:Female snooker players
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Sportspeople from Tamworth, Staffordshire

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