Cristina Amaya

Cristina Amaya
Personal information
Nationality Colombian
Born October 28, 1988
Colombia Cali, Colombia
Residence Cali, Colombia
Sport
Sport Racquetball
Achievements and titles
Highest world ranking 3rd

Cristina Amaya (born October 28, 1988) is a Colombian racquetball player. Amaya finished the 2013-14 Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour (LPRT) season as the 5th ranked player, which is a career high and the fourth season she's been in the top 10 (since 2010-11 season). She was the third South American player to be in the women's pro top 10 after Angela Grisar and Veronica Sotomayor.

Professional career

Amaya has been playing the women's pro tour since 2009,[1] and to date her career highlight is reaching the final of the 2013 Abierto Mexicano de Racquetas tournament, where she lost to Paola Longoria. Amaya's career high ranking was 3rd in December 2013. She was named Most Improved LPRT player for 2013.[2]

International career

Amaya plays for Colombia and was a silver medalist at the 2013 World Games, losing in a tie-breaker to Paola Longoria in the final.

She has earned three bronze medals at the Pan American Championships. Her first was in 2014 Pan Am Championships in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, where she lost in the semi-finals to Susana Acosta, 15-10, 14-15, 11-7.[3] In 2015, Amaya was a semi-finalist in both Women's Singles, losing to Veronica Sotomayor of Ecuador, 15-3, 15-8,[4] and Woman's Doubles with Vivian Gomez, losing to Mexicans Longoria and Samantha Salas, 15-6, 15-3.[5]

References

  1. ↑ http://lprtour.com/cristina_amaya.asp
  2. ↑ http://www.theracquetballblog.blogspot.ca/2013/12/lprt-rankings-amaya-up-to-3rd.html
  3. ↑ https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6c9sdoswook98pz/AAAI42T6JV5-v1jKgGL3o2OMa/1-OPEN/Llave-Women%20Singles-2.pdf
  4. ↑ http://theracquetballblog.blogspot.ca/2015/04/semi-final-madness-at-2015-pan-american.html
  5. ↑ http://theracquetballblog.blogspot.ca/2015/04/semi-final-madness-at-2015-pan-american.html

See also