Amanda Carreras

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

Amanda Carreras

Carreras at the 2015 Wimbledon qualifying tournament
Country (sports)	United Kingdom  Gibraltar
Born	(1990-05-16) 16 May 1990 Gibraltar
Turned pro	2008
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$129,797
Singles
Career record	401–246 (61.9%)
Career titles	11 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 236 (24 April 2017)
Current ranking	No. 330 (09 March 2020)
Grand Slam Singles results
Wimbledon	Q1 (2013, 2015)
Doubles
Career record	134–90
Career titles	15 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 279 (24 April 2017)
Current ranking	No. 1019 (09 March 2020)
Medal record Representing  Gibraltar Island Games 2007 Rhodes women's singles 2007 Rhodes women's team 2011 Isle of Wight women's singles 2011 Isle of Wight women's doubles 2011 Isle of Wight women's team 2019 Gibraltar women's singles 2019 Gibraltar women's doubles 2019 Gibraltar women's team 2007 Rhodes mixed doubles

Carreras has won 11 singles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 24 April 2017, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 236, and peaked at No. 279 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, London. Nicola Bosio (another Gibraltarian athlete) passed on the flame to Amanda who was described as one of Gibraltar's finest sportswomen.[2]

The three additional gold medals she won at her home Island Games in 2019 pushed her total up to 9 medals, 8 of them gold and made her the most decorated athlete in the history of the games. As well as this she holds a 12-0 record in singles and has won half of all her single matches without the loss of a single game, twice in 2011 and in all four of her matches in 2019.

With a total of 401 singles match wins Carreras is ranked fourth all time amongst female British tennis players and second amongst active players for most single wins. As well as 353 of those wins being on clay she has won more matches on the surface out of any British player male or female. With this impressive feat it is surprising she has never been nominated to play in a Fed Cup tie, especially given the GB is 0-3 in Fed Cup ties since Carreras professional debut back in 2008 and has a win loss total of 4-9 on clay.

In addition Carreras competed in the 2010 Commonwealth games held in Delhi where she reached the round of 16 in singles after winning her opening round match 6-0 6-0 against Tiriata Keeba of Kiribati, but then lost to eventual fourth placer and 6th seed Olivia Rogowska of Australia 6-2 6-4. Thus far 2010 has been the only time tennis has ever been included in the games' program.

Career

Junior career (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 No. 548 (achieved on 18 July 2005).[3]

2006–2007

Carreras first competed on senior events 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 Women's Circuit 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 No. 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 No. 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 event. Carreras continued competing on the ITF circuit without any notable result 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 event in late November. By the end of 2009, her singles ranking was world No. 423.[4]

ITF finals

Singles: 23 (11 titles, 12 runner–ups)

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Finals by surface Hard (0–3) Clay (10–9) Grass (0–0) Carpet (1–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	May 2008	ITF Tortosa, Spain	10,000	Clay	Beatriz García Vidagany	2–6, 3–6
Loss	0–2	Jun 2008	ITF Alcobaça, Portugal	10,000	Hard	Elitsa Kostova	6–3, 2–6, 2–6
Loss	0–3	Nov 2008	ITF El Menzah, Tunisia	10,000	Hard	Federica Grazioso	6–2, 6–7^(5–7), 4–6
Win	1–3	May 2009	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Clay	Garbiñe Muguruza	7–5, 7–5
Win	2–3	May 2009	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Clay	Sandra Roma	7–6^(9–7), 6–7^(2–7), 6–4
Loss	2–4	Nov 2009	ITF La Vall d'Uixó, Spain	10,000	Clay	Laura Thorpe	2–6, 2–6
Win	3–4	Nov 2010	ITF La Marsa, Tunisia	10,000	Clay	Erika Zanchetta	7–6^(7–4), 6–0
Win	4–4	May 2012	ITF Getxo, Spain	10,000	Clay	Yvonne Cavallé Reimers	6–3, 4–6, 6–4
Loss	4–5	Sep 2012	ITF Madrid, Spain	10,000	Clay (i)	Tatiana Búa	3–6, 5–7
Loss	4–6	Oct 2012	ITF Buenos Aires, Argentina	25,000	Clay	Teliana Pereira	1–6, 2–6
Win	5–6	Nov 2014	ITF Vinaròs, Spain	10,000	Clay	Diana Šumová	6–4, 6–1
Loss	5–7	Nov 2014	ITF Castellón, Spain	10,000	Clay	Olga Sáez Larra	6–3, 1–6, 2–6
Win	6–7	Feb 2015	ITF Palma Nova, Spain	10,000	Clay	Olga Sáez Larra	6–4, 7–6^(7–3)
Win	7–7	Feb 2015	ITF Palma Nova, Spain	10,000	Clay	Cristina Bucșa	7–5, 6–0
Loss	7–8	Apr 2015	ITF Cairo, Egypt	15,000	Clay	Katarzyna Kawa	5–7, 1–6
Win	8–8	Sep 2015	ITF Pula, Italy	10,000	Clay	Jessica Pieri	6–4, 6–3
Win	9–8	Nov 2015	ITF Benicarló, Spain	10,000	Clay	Diana Šumová	6–3, 6–2
Loss	9–9	May 2016	ITF Chiasso, Switzerland	25,000	Clay	Isabella Shinikova	3–6, 6–7^(1–7)
Loss	9–10	Nov 2016	ITF Oslo, Norway	10,000	Hard (i)	Jacqueline Cabaj Awad	3–6, 3–6
Loss	9–11	Nov 2016	ITF Benicarló, Spain	10,000	Clay	Jessika Ponchet	0–6, 6–7^(6–8)
Win	10–11	Nov 2018	ITF Solarino, Italy	15,000	Carpet	Catalina Pella	6–4, 3–6, 7–5
Win	11–11	Mar 2019	ITF Le Havre, France	15,000	Clay (i)	Emeline Dartron	4–6, 6–3, 6–1
Loss	11–12	Apr 2019	ITF Tabarka, Tunisia	15,000	Clay	Rosa Vicens Mas	4–6, 2–6

Doubles (15–11)

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Finals by surface Hard (1–2) Clay (14–9) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	12 May 2008	Badalona, Spain	Clay	Maite Gabarrús-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.	18 November 2011	Vinaròs, Spain	Clay	Carolina Prats Millán	Anastasia Grymalska Evgeniya Pashkova	3–6, 1–6
Runner-up	6.	28 April 2012	Vic, Spain	Clay	Ximena Hermoso	Evgeniya Pashkova Isabella Shinikova	1–6, 2–6
Runner-up	7.	11 October 2013	Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain	Clay	Lara Arruabarrena	Tatiana Búa Andrea Gámiz	6–4, 2–6, [7–10]
Winner	8.	14 February 2015	Palma Nova, Spain	Clay	Alice Savoretti	Irina Maria Bara Ágnes Bukta	6–4, 6–1
Winner	9.	24 July 2015	Viserba, Italy	Clay	Alice Savoretti	Martina Di Giuseppe Giorgia Marchetti	6–3, 3–6, [10–3]
Winner	10.	2 October 2015	La Vall d'Uixó, Spain	Clay	Alice Savoretti	María Cañero Pérez María Gutiérrez Carrasco	6–1, 6–2
Winner	11.	13 November 2015	Benicarló, Spain	Clay	Alice Savoretti	Oleksandra Korashvili Ioana Loredana Roșca	6–3, 6–2
Runner-up	8.	20 February 2016	Palma Nova, Spain	Clay	Alice Savoretti	Valeria Savinykh Alyona Sotnikova	6–2, 4–6, [6–10]
Runner-up	9.	26 March 2016	Heraklion, Greece	Hard	Alice Savoretti	Aleksandra Pospelova Alina Silich	2–6, 2–6
Winner	12.	20 May 2016	Caserta, Italy	Clay	Alice Savoretti	Oleksandra Korashvili Maria Marfutina	6–7^(9–11), 7–6^(7–5), [10–6]
Winner	13.	24 June 2016	Nieuwpoort, Belgium	Clay	Alice Savoretti	Steffi Distelmans Quirine Lemoine	6–2, 6–7^(4–7), [10–8]
Runner-up	10.	1 July 2016	Denain, France	Clay	Alice Savoretti	Michaela Hončová Shérazad Reix	1–6, 3–6
Winner	14.	18 November 2016	Benicarló, Spain	Clay	Charlotte Römer	Oleksandra Korashvili Isabelle Wallace	5–7, 6–3, [10–7]
Runner-up	11.	14 April 2017	Pelham, United States	Clay	Tena Lukas	Emina Bektas Sanaz Marand	w/o
Winner	15.	14 April 2019	Tabarka, Tunisia	Clay	Angela Fita Boluda	Sarah Lee Chelsea Vanhoutte	6–2, 6–3

References

1. Fishpool, Nick (23 June 2009). "Amanda Carreras – May 2009". International Tennis Federation. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
2. "Amanda & Nicola carry Olympic Torch for Gibraltar". GBC. 24 July 2012. Archived from the original on 13 November 2013. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
3. "Amanda Carreras". www.itftennis.com. International Tennis Federation.
4. Amanda Carreras at the International Tennis Federation

External links

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