Amanda Carreras
Gibraltarian tennis player
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| Intro | Gibraltarian tennis player | |
| Places | United Kingdom | |
| is | Athlete Tennis player | |
| Work field | Sports | |
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| Birth | 16 May 1990, Gibraltar | |
| Age | 34 years |
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Biography
Amanda Carreras (born 16 May 1990 in Gibraltar) is a British tennis player.
Carreras has won nine singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career. On 14 November 2016, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 274. On 25 July 2016, she peaked at world number 319 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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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. 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.
ITF finals (23–21)
Singles (9–11)
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| Result | No. | Date | Category | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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| Runner-up | 1. | 26 May 2008 | $10,000 | Tortosa, Spain | Clay | Beatriz García Vidagany | 2–6, 3–6 |
| Runner-up | 2. | 16 June 2008 | $10,000 | Alcobaça, Portugal | Hard | Elitsa Kostova | 6–3, 2–6, 2–6 |
| Runner-up | 3. | 3 November 2008 | $10,000 | El Menzah, Tunisia | Hard | Federica Grazioso | 6–2, 6–7(5–7), 4–6 |
| Winner | 1. | 11 May 2009 | $10,000 | Antalya, Turkey | Clay | Garbiñe Muguruza | 7–5, 7–5 |
| Winner | 2. | 18 May 2009 | $10,000 | Antalya, Turkey | Clay | Sandra Roma | 7–6(9–7), 6–7(2–7), 6–4 |
| Runner-up | 4. | 23 November 2009 | $10,000 | La Vall d'Uixó, Spain | Clay | Laura Thorpe | 2–6, 2–6 |
| Winner | 3. | 1 November 2010 | $10,000 | La Marsa, Tunisia | Clay | Erika Zanchetta | 7–6(7–4), 6–0 |
| Winner | 4. | 21 May 2012 | $10,000 | Getxo, Spain | Clay | Yvonne Cavallé Reimers | 6–3, 4–6, 6–4 |
| Runner-up | 5. | 17 September 2012 | $10,000 | Madrid, Spain | Clay (i) | Tatiana Búa | 3–6, 5–7 |
| Runner-up | 6. | 29 October 2012 | $25,000 | Buenos Aires, Argentina | Clay | Teliana Pereira | 1–6, 2–6 |
| Winner | 5. | 3 November 2014 | $10,000 | Vinaròs, Spain | Clay | Diana Šumová | 6–4, 6–1 |
| Runner-up | 7. | 10 November 2014 | $10,000 | Castellón, Spain | Clay | Olga Sáez Larra | 6–3, 1–6, 2–6 |
| Winner | 6. | 9 February 2015 | $10,000 | Palma Nova, Spain | Clay | Olga Sáez Larra | 6–4, 7–6(7–3) |
| Winner | 7. | 16 February 2015 | $10,000 | Palma Nova, Spain | Clay | Cristina Bucșa | 7–5, 6–0 |
| Runner-up | 8. | 20 April 2015 | $15,000 | Cairo, Egypt | Clay | Katarzyna Kawa | 5–7, 1–6 |
| Winner | 8. | 14 September 2015 | $10,000 | Pula, Italy | Clay | Jessica Pieri | 6–4, 6–3 |
| Winner | 9. | 9 November 2015 | $10,000 | Benicarló, Spain | Clay | Diana Šumová | 6–3, 6–2 |
| Runner-up | 9. | 25 April 2016 | $25,000 | Chiasso, Switzerland | Clay | Isabella Shinikova | 3–6, 6–7(1–7) |
| Runner-up | 10. | 31 October 2016 | $10,000 | Oslo, Norway | Hard (i) | Jacqueline Cabaj Awad | 3–6, 3–6 |
| Runner-up | 11. | 14 November 2016 | $10,000 | Benicarló, Spain | Clay | Jessika Ponchet | 0–6, 6–7(6–8) |
Doubles (14–10)
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| Result | No. | Date | Category | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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| Runner-up | 1. | 12 May 2008 | $10,000 | Badalona, Spain | Clay | Maite Gabarrus Alonso | Benedetta Davato Lisa Sabino | 6–2, 2–6, [8–10] |
| Winner | 1. | 11 May 2009 | $10,000 | Antalya, Turkey | Clay | Valentina Sulpizio | An-Sophie Mestach Sofie Oyen | 4–6, 6–3, [10–4] |
| Winner | 2. | 18 May 2009 | $10,000 | Antalya, Turkey | Clay | Valentina Sulpizio | Julia Klackenberg Sandra Roma | 6–0, 6–3 |
| Runner-up | 2. | 3 August 2009 | $10,000 | Vienna, Austria | Clay | Raphaela Zotta | Jana Jandová Monika Kochanová | 5–7, 7–5, [14–16] |
| Runner-up | 3. | 12 October 2009 | $10,000 | Antalya, Turkey | Clay | Valentine Confalonieri | Çağla Büyükakçay Albina Khabibulina | 6–2, 5–7, [7–10] |
| Winner | 3. | 23 November 2009 | $10,000 | 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 | $25,000 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Clay | Bianca Botto | María Fernanda Álvarez Terán Andreja Klepač | 3–6, 6–4, [10–8] |
| Winner | 5. | 1 November 2010 | $10,000 | La Marsa, Tunisia | Clay | Sheila Solsona Carcasona | Ximena Hermoso Ivette López | 6–4, 7–5 |
| Winner | 6. | 22 November 2010 | $10,000 | La Vall d'Uixó, Spain | Clay | Andrea Gámiz | Lara Arruabarrena Benedetta Davato | 7–6(7–5), 6–3 |
| Winner | 7. | 13 June 2011 | $10,000 | Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal | Hard | Andrea Gámiz | Ximena Hermoso Ivette López | 6–3, 6–4 |
| Runner-up | 4. | 8 August 2011 | $10,000 | Gijón, Spain | Hard | Andrea Gámiz | Amy Bowtell Lucy Brown | w/o |
| Runner-up | 5. | 14 November 2011 | $10,000 | Vinaròs, Spain | Clay | Carolina Prats Millán | Anastasia Grymalska Eugeniya Pashkova | 3–6, 1–6 |
| Runner-up | 6. | 23 April 2012 | $10,000 | Vic, Spain | Clay | Ximena Hermoso | Eugeniya Pashkova Isabella Shinikova | 1–6, 2–6 |
| Runner-up | 7. | 7 October 2013 | $25,000 | Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain | Clay | Lara Arruabarrena | Tatiana Búa Andrea Gámiz | 6–4, 2–6, [7–10] |
| Winner | 8. | 9 February 2015 | $10,000 | Palma Nova, Spain | Clay | Alice Savoretti | Irina Maria Bara Ágnes Bukta | 6–4, 6–1 |
| Winner | 9. | 20 July 2015 | $10,000 | Viserba, Italy | Clay | Alice Savoretti | Martina di Giuseppe Giorgia Marchetti | 6–3, 3–6, [10–3] |
| Winner | 10. | 28 September 2015 | $10,000 | La Vall d'Uixó, Spain | Clay | Alice Savoretti | María Cañero Pérez María Gutiérrez Carrasco | 6–1, 6–2 |
| Winner | 11. | 9 November 2015 | $10,000 | Benicarló, Spain | Clay | Alice Savoretti | Oleksandra Korashvili Ioana Loredana Roșca | 6–3, 6–2 |
| Runner-up | 8. | 15 February 2016 | $10,000 | Palma Nova, Spain | Clay | Alice Savoretti | Valeria Savinykh Alyona Sotnikova | 6–2, 4–6, [6–10] |
| Runner-up | 9. | 21 March 2016 | $10,000 | Heraklion, Greece | Hard | Alice Savoretti | Aleksandra Pospelova Alina Silich | 2–6, 2–6 |
| Winner | 12. | 16 May 2016 | $25,000 | Caserta, Italy | Clay | Alice Savoretti | Oleksandra Korashvili Maria Marfutina | 6–7(9–11), 7–6(7–5), [10–6] |
| Winner | 13. | 20 June 2016 | $10,000 | Nieuwpoort, Belgium | Clay | Alice Savoretti | Steffi Distelmans Quirine Lemoine | 6–2, 6–7(4–7), [10–8] |
| Runner-up | 10. | 27 June 2016 | $25,000 | Denain, France | Clay | Alice Savoretti | Michaela Hončová Shérazad Reix | 1–6, 3–6 |
| Winner | 14. | 14 November 2016 | $10,000 | Benicarló, Spain | Clay | Charlotte Römer | Oleksandra Korashvili Isabelle Wallace | 5–7, 6–3, [10–7] |