Amanda Carreras

Amanda Carreras

Full name	Amanda Carreras
Country	United Kingdom  Gibraltar
Born	(1990-05-16) 16 May 1990 Gibraltar
Turned pro	2008
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$75,502
Singles
Career record	249–166
Career titles	7 ITF
Highest ranking	306 (4 November 2013)
Current ranking	319 (27 April 2015)
Grand Slam Singles results
Wimbledon	Q1 (2013)
Doubles
Career record	85–64
Career titles	8 ITF
Highest ranking	372 (17 May 2010)
Current ranking	818 (27 April 2015)
Medal record Competitor for  Gibraltar Island Games Gold 2007 Rhodes women's singles Gold 2007 Rhodes women's team Gold 2011 Isle of Wight women's singles Gold 2011 Isle of Wight women's doubles Gold 2011 Isle of Wight women's team Silver 2007 Rhodes mixed doubles
Last updated on: 27 April 2015.

Amanda Carreras (born 16 May 1990 in Gibraltar) is a Gibraltarian tennis player.

Carreras has won seven singles and eight doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career. On 4 November 2013, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 306. On 17 May 2010, she peaked at world number 372 in the doubles rankings.

Due to Carreras winning her first two singles and doubles titles back-to-back, the ITF website wrote a "Spotlight On…" article on Carreras in May 2009.^[1]

On 24 July 2012, Carreras carried the Olympic flame in the torch relay in Ealing. Nicola Bosio (another Gibraltarian athlete) passed on the flame to Amanda who was described as one of Gibraltar's finest sportswomen.^[2]

Career

Junior (2004–2008)

Carreras only competed in a total of nine tournaments over the course of her junior career, reaching the quarterfinals in only one of them. As a doubles competitor she reached two semifinals and two quarterfinals. By July 2008, when she played in her last junior tournament, she had accumulated win-loss records of 8–9 in singles and 8–8 in doubles. Her career-high combined junior ranking was world number 548 (achieved on 18 July 2005).^[3]

2006–2007

Carreras first competed on the senior ITF tour in February 2006, but during the rest of the year she failed to pass the second round in any of her tournaments. She ended 2006 without a world ranking.^[4]

She continued competing on the ITF tour in 2007 and reached her first ever quarterfinal as a qualifier in July at a $10,000 clay court event in Tampere, Finland. In her very next tournament (also a $10,000 clay court event) she again managed to qualify and this time she reached her very first ITF semifinal. She ended the 2007 season with a ranking of world number 873.^[4]

2008

In March 2008, Carreras reached another ITF quarterfinal, this time in Antalya. In May she reached her first ever ITF final in a $10,000 event in Tortosa where she was beaten by Beatriz García Vidagany. She reached the final in her very next tournament where she lost to Elitsa Kostova in three sets. In August she reached another semifinal and in September and October she reached three more quarterfinals. In November she again fell just short of winning a tournament when she lost in the final of a $10,000 event in El Menzah, Tunisia. Her ranking at the end of 2008 had risen almost 300 places to world number 591.^[4]

2009

Carreras began her 2009 season on clay courts and reached another $10,000 ITF semifinal in March. She followed this up by reaching the quarterfinals of her following tournament which was also a $10,000 ITF. Carreras continued competing on the ITF circuit without any notable results until May, when she reached the semifinals of a $10,000 ITF tournament in Badalona, Spain. She then headed to Antalya where she won both the singles and doubles in two consecutive events, giving her the first four ITF titles of her career and prompting the official ITF website to feature her in their "Spotlight On…" article for May.^[1] This momentum then carried her to another semifinal in her next tournament, when Nataša Zorić from Serbia ended her winning streak of 13 singles matches. Despite this promising first part of the year, Carreras did not pass the second round in any of her remaining tournaments in 2009 with the exception of one quarterfinal showing in late October and one runner-up position in another $10,000 clay court ITF event in late November. By the end of 2009, her singles ranking was world number 423.^[4]

ITF finals (15–15)

Singles (7–8)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	26 May 2008	Tortosa, Spain	Clay	Beatriz García Vidagany	2–6, 3–6
Runner-up	2.	16 June 2008	Alcobaça, Portugal	Hard	Elitsa Kostova	6–3, 2–6, 2–6
Runner-up	3.	3 November 2008	El Menzah, Tunisia	Hard	Federica Grazioso	6–2, 6–7(5–7), 4–6
Winner	1.	11 May 2009	Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Garbiñe Muguruza	7–5, 7–5
Winner	2.	18 May 2009	Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Sandra Roma	7–6(9–7), 6–7(2–7), 6–4
Runner-up	4.	23 November 2009	La Vall d'Uixó, Spain	Clay	Laura Thorpe	2–6, 2–6
Winner	3.	1 November 2010	La Marsa, Tunisia	Clay	Erika Zanchetta	7–6(7–4), 6–0
Winner	4.	21 May 2012	Getxo, Spain	Clay	Yvonne Cavallé Reimers	6–3, 4–6, 6–4
Runner-up	5.	17 September 2012	Madrid, Spain	Clay (i)	Tatiana Búa	3–6, 5–7
Runner-up	6.	29 October 2012	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Teliana Pereira	1–6, 2–6
Winner	5.	3 November 2014	Vinaròs, Spain	Clay	Diana Šumová	6–4, 6–1
Runner-up	7.	10 November 2014	Castellón, Spain	Clay	Olga Sáez Larra	6–3, 1–6, 2–6
Winner	6.	9 February 2015	Palma Nova, Spain	Clay	Olga Sáez Larra	6–4, 7–6(7–3)
Winner	7.	16 February 2015	Palma Nova, Spain	Clay	Cristina Bucșa	7–5, 6–0
Runner-up	8.	20 April 2015	Cairo, Egypt	Clay	Katarzyna Kawa	5–7, 1–6

Doubles (8–7)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	12 May 2008	Badalona, Spain	Clay	Maite Gabarrus Alonso	Benedetta Davato Lisa Sabino	6–2, 2–6, [8–10]
Winner	1.	11 May 2009	Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Valentina Sulpizio	An-Sophie Mestach Sofie Oyen	4–6, 6–3, [10–4]
Winner	2.	18 May 2009	Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Valentina Sulpizio	Julia Klackenberg Sandra Roma	6–0, 6–3
Runner-up	2.	3 August 2009	Vienna, Austria	Clay	Raphaela Zotta	Jana Jandová Monika Kochanová	5–7, 7–5, [14–16]
Runner-up	3.	12 October 2009	Antalya, Turkey	Clay	Valentine Confalonieri	Çağla Büyükakçay Albina Khabibulina	6–2, 5–7, [7–10]
Winner	3.	23 November 2009	La Vall d'Uixó, Spain	Clay	Lara Arruabarrena	Yera Campos Molina Sandra Soler Sola	6–4, 3–6, [11–9]
Winner	4.	3 May 2010	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Clay	Bianca Botto	María Fernanda Álvarez Terán Andreja Klepač	3–6, 6–4, [10–8]
Winner	5.	1 November 2010	La Marsa, Tunisia	Clay	Sheila Solsona Carcasona	Ximena Hermoso Ivette López	6–4, 7–5
Winner	6.	22 November 2010	La Vall d'Uixó, Spain	Clay	Andrea Gámiz	Lara Arruabarrena Benedetta Davato	7–6(7–5), 6–3
Winner	7.	13 June 2011	Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal	Hard	Andrea Gámiz	Ximena Hermoso Ivette López	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	4.	8 August 2011	Gijón, Spain	Hard	Andrea Gámiz	Amy Bowtell Lucy Brown	w/o
Runner-up	5.	14 November 2011	Vinaròs, Spain	Clay	Carolina Prats Millán	Anastasia Grymalska Eugeniya Pashkova	3–6, 1–6
Runner-up	6.	23 April 2012	Vic, Spain	Clay	Ximena Hermoso	Eugeniya Pashkova Isabella Shinikova	1–6, 2–6
Runner-up	7.	7 October 2013	Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain	Clay	Lara Arruabarrena	Tatiana Búa Andrea Gámiz	6–4, 2–6, [7–10]
Winner	8.	9 February 2015	Palma Nova, Spain	Clay	Alice Savoretti	Irina Maria Bara Ágnes Bukta	6–4, 6–1

References

External links

• Amanda Carreras at the Women's Tennis Association
• Amanda Carreras at the International Tennis Federation

Women's Tennis Association: Top British female singles tennis players as of 27 April 2015 1. Heather Watson (40 ) 2. Johanna Konta (138 ) 3. Naomi Broady (161 1) 4. Katy Dunne (278 4) 5. Emily Webley-Smith (305 ) 6. Amanda Carreras (319 2) 7. Katie Boulter (346 ) 8. Harriet Dart (380 6) 9. Naomi Cavaday (394 3) 10. Tara Moore (399 15)