Sue LeMaich
| Born | Canada |
|---|---|
| Sport country |  Canada |
Sue LeMaich is a Canadian snooker player. She was runner-up in the 1986 World Women's Snooker Championship.
Biography
[edit]In both 1980 and 1981, LeMaich was beaten by Lesley McIlrath at the last 16 stage of the World Women's Snooker Championship.[1] At the 1983 Championship, she beat L. Coleman 3–1, Jennifer Poulter 4–0, and Allison Fisher 5–1 in the knockout stages, before losing 5–6 to Maureen Baynton in the semi-final.[2] Baynton had led 3-0 before LeMaitch levelled at 3-3. Baynton took the next frame, then LeMaitch won the two after that to lead 5–4. Baynton then won the concluding two frames, to win the match.[3]
She was third in the 1984 National Express Grand Prix ladies snooker series. LeMaich won two of the five tournaments, those held in Basingstoke and Peterborough, beating eventual series winner Mandy Fisher in both finals.[1][4] In the 1986 World Ladies Snooker Championship, LeMaich beat Agnes Davies 3–1 in the last 16, then Stacey Hillyard 4–3 in the quarter-final, and Kim Shaw 4–3 in the semi-final. In the final, she lost 0–5 to defending champion Allison Fisher.[2]
LeMaich won a number of Canadian snooker titles, and also sometimes played in Nine-ball pool tournaments sometimes, before a back problem forced her to retire at the age of 31, in about 1988.[5]
As of 1999, she was credited with being the woman player with the most century breaks, 12, with a top break of 128.[6]
Titles and achievements
[edit]Snooker
- 1986 Professional World Women's Snooker Championship runner-up.[7]
- 1984 National Express Ladies Grand Prix – third place
References
[edit]- ^ a b Everton, Clive (1985). Guinness Snooker – The Records. Guinness Superlatives. pp. 154–156. ISBN 0851124488.
- ^ a b Hale, Janice (1991). Rothmans Snooker Yearbook 1991–92. Queen Anne Press. pp. 364–366. ISBN 0-356-19747-6.
- ^ "Sue Foster – Women's World Champion". Cue World. Transworld Publications. July 1983. p. 25.
- ^ "Sue LeMaich Wins at Peterborough". Snooker Scene. No. June 1984.
- ^ Collier, Roger (19 August 2007). "The Lost Art of Snooker". Ottawa Citizen. p. D1 – via PressReader.com. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
- ^ Graham Duncan (1999). James Harley Marsh (ed.). The Canadian Encyclopedia. The Canadian Encyclopedia. p. 237. ISBN 978-0-7710-2099-5. In the online version omitted
- ^ "World Champions". womenssnooker.com. World Women's Snooker Collection. Archived from the original on 18 August 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019.