Were women really disallowed to play billiard games in fear they would tear up the table’s cloth? This ancient billiards fact, or myth, is still alive in many billiards halls across the globe. Stockport in the UK and Southampton in New Hampshire, are two recent examples that things haven’t change that much in the last couple of centuries, at least not regarding women and billiards. 

Suzie Opacic, Snooker Ladies’ World Junior Champion had planned to take part in the Southampton Social Club league match at the local snooker Netley Central. But since the club rules forbid women of playing snooker, and her snooker team had to play without her. And on the other side of the Atlantic, members of the Great Moor snooker club in Stockport voted against changing the 68 years old ban on participation of women in the club’s snooker activities.

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