Amanda Carreras

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

Amanda Carreras
Amanda Carreras at Biarritz, 2021
Country (sports) United Kingdom
 Gibraltar
Born (1990-05-16) 16 May 1990
Gibraltar
Turned pro2008
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize moneyUS$ 166,270
Singles
Career record452–297 (60.3%)
Career titles11 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 236 (24 April 2017)
Current rankingNo. 694 (24 July 2023)
Grand Slam singles results
WimbledonQ1 (2013, 2015)
Doubles
Career record136–96 (58.6%)
Career titles15 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 279 (24 April 2017)
Medal record
Representing  Gibraltar
Island Games
Gold medal – first place2007 RhodesWomen's singles
Gold medal – first place2007 RhodesWomen's team
Gold medal – first place2011 Isle of WightWomen's singles
Gold medal – first place2011 Isle of WightWomen's doubles
Gold medal – first place2011 Isle of WightWomen's team
Gold medal – first place2019 GibraltarWomen's singles
Gold medal – first place2019 GibraltarWomen's doubles
Gold medal – first place2019 GibraltarWomen's team
Silver medal – second place2007 RhodesMixed doubles
Last updated on: 25 July 2023.

Carreras has won 11 singles titles 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 nine medals, eight 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 singles 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 sixth seed, Olivia Rogowska of Australia, 2–6, 4–6. Thus far, 2010 has been the only time tennis has ever been included in the games' program.

She has twice beaten Garbiñe Muguruza on the ITF Circuit, including back in May 2009 to win her first title in Ankara, Turkey with a score of 7–5, 7–5. Muguruza would later go on to become world No. 1 in 2017, and capture two Grand Slam titles at Roland Garros and Wimbledon.

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 $10k clay-court event in Tampere, Finland. In her very next tournament (also a $10k 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 $10k 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 $10k 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 $10k semifinal in March. She followed this up by reaching the quarterfinals of her following tournament which was also a $10k event. Carreras continued competing on the ITF Circuit without any notable result until May, when she reached the semifinals of a $10k 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 $10k clay-court event in late November. By the end of 2009, her singles ranking was world No. 423.[4]

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 24 (11 titles, 13 runner–ups)

Legend
$25,000 tournaments
$15,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (0–3)
Clay (10–10)
Carpet (1–0)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 May 2008 ITF Tortosa, Spain 10,000 Clay Spain Beatriz García Vidagany 2–6, 3–6
Loss 0–2 Jun 2008 ITF Alcobaça, Portugal 10,000 Hard Bulgaria Elitsa Kostova 6–3, 2–6, 2–6
Loss 0–3 Nov 2008 ITF El Menzah, Tunisia 10,000 Hard Italy Federica Grazioso 6–2, 6–7(5), 4–6
Win 1–3 May 2009 ITF Antalya, Turkey 10,000 Clay Spain Garbiñe Muguruza 7–5, 7–5
Win 2–3 May 2009 ITF Antalya, Turkey 10,000 Clay Sweden Sandra Roma 7–6(7), 6–7(2), 6–4
Loss 2–4 Nov 2009 ITF La Vall d'Uixó, Spain 10,000 Clay France Laura Thorpe 2–6, 2–6
Win 3–4 Nov 2010 ITF La Marsa, Tunisia 10,000 Clay Italy Erika Zanchetta 7–6(4), 6–0
Win 4–4 May 2012 ITF Getxo, Spain 10,000 Clay Spain Yvonne Cavallé Reimers 6–3, 4–6, 6–4
Loss 4–5 Sep 2012 ITF Madrid, Spain 10,000 Clay (i) Argentina Tatiana Búa 3–6, 5–7
Loss 4–6 Oct 2012 ITF Buenos Aires, Argentina 25,000 Clay Brazil Teliana Pereira 1–6, 2–6
Win 5–6 Nov 2014 ITF Vinaròs, Spain 10,000 Clay Czech Republic Diana Šumová 6–4, 6–1
Loss 5–7 Nov 2014 ITF Castellón, Spain 10,000 Clay Spain Olga Sáez Larra 6–3, 1–6, 2–6
Win 6–7 Feb 2015 ITF Palma Nova, Spain 10,000 Clay Spain Olga Sáez Larra 6–4, 7–6(3)
Win 7–7 Feb 2015 ITF Palma Nova, Spain 10,000 Clay Spain Cristina Bucșa 7–5, 6–0
Loss 7–8 Apr 2015 ITF Cairo, Egypt 15,000 Clay Poland Katarzyna Kawa 5–7, 1–6
Win 8–8 Sep 2015 ITF Pula, Italy 10,000 Clay Italy Jessica Pieri 6–4, 6–3
Win 9–8 Nov 2015 ITF Benicarló, Spain 10,000 Clay Czech Republic Diana Šumová 6–3, 6–2
Loss 9–9 May 2016 Chiasso Open, Switzerland 25,000 Clay Bulgaria Isabella Shinikova 3–6, 6–7(1)
Loss 9–10 Nov 2016 ITF Oslo, Norway 10,000 Hard (i) Sweden Jacqueline Cabaj Awad 3–6, 3–6
Loss 9–11 Nov 2016 ITF Benicarló, Spain 10,000 Clay France Jessika Ponchet 0–6, 6–7(6)
Win 10–11 Nov 2018 ITF Solarino, Italy 15,000 Carpet Argentina Catalina Pella 6–4, 3–6, 7–5
Win 11–11 Mar 2019 ITF Le Havre, France 15,000 Clay (i) France Émeline Dartron 4–6, 6–3, 6–1
Loss 11–12 Apr 2019 ITF Tabarka, Tunisia 15,000 Clay Spain Rosa Vicens Mas 4–6, 2–6
Loss 11–13 Oct 2020 ITF Platja d'Aro, Spain 15,000 Clay Switzerland Sebastianna Scilipoti 4–6, 4–6

Doubles: 26 (15 titles, 11 runner–ups)

Legend
$25,000 tournaments
$15,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (1–2)
Clay (14–9)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 May 2008 ITF Badalona, Spain 10,000 Clay Spain Maite Gabarrús-Alonso Italy Benedetta Davato
Italy Lisa Sabino
6–2, 2–6, [8–10]
Win 1–1 May 2009 ITF Antalya, Turkey 10,000 Clay Italy Valentina Sulpizio Belgium An-Sophie Mestach
Belgium Sofie Oyen
4–6, 6–3, [10–4]
Win 2–1 May 2009 ITF Antalya, Turkey 10,000 Clay Italy Valentina Sulpizio Sweden Julia Klackenberg
Sweden Sandra Roma
6–0, 6–3
Loss 2–2 Aug 2009 ITF Vienna, Austria 10,000 Clay Austria Raphaela Zotta Czech Republic Jana Jandová
Slovakia Monika Kochanová
5–7, 7–5, [14–16]
Loss 2–3 Oct 2009 ITF Antalya, Turkey 10,000 Clay Italy Valentine Confalonieri Turkey Çağla Büyükakçay
Uzbekistan Albina Khabibulina
6–2, 5–7, [7–10]
Win 3–3 Nov 2009 ITF La Vall d'Uixó, Spain 10,000 Clay Spain Lara Arruabarrena Spain Yera Campos Molina
Spain Sandra Soler Sola
6–4, 3–6, [11–9]
Win 4–3 May 2010 ITF Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 25,000 Clay Peru Bianca Botto Bolivia María Fernanda Álvarez Terán
Slovenia Andreja Klepač
3–6, 6–4, [10–8]
Win 5–3 Nov 2010 ITF La Marsa, Tunisia 10,000 Clay Spain Sheila Solsona Carcasona Mexico Ximena Hermoso
Mexico Ivette López
6–4, 7–5
Win 6–3 Nov 2010 ITF La Vall d'Uixó, Spain 10,000 Clay Venezuela Andrea Gámiz Spain Lara Arruabarrena
Italy Benedetta Davato
7–6(5), 6–3
Win 7–3 Jun 2011 ITF Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal 10,000 Hard Venezuela Andrea Gámiz Mexico Ximena Hermoso
Mexico Ivette López
6–3, 6–4
Loss 7–4 Aug 2011 ITF Gijón, Spain 10,000 Hard Venezuela Andrea Gámiz Republic of Ireland Amy Bowtell
United Kingdom Lucy Brown
w/o
Loss 7–5 Nov 2011 ITF Vinaròs, Spain 10,000 Clay Spain Carolina Prats Millán Italy Anastasia Grymalska
Russia Evgeniya Pashkova
3–6, 1–6
Loss 7–6 Apr 2012 ITF Vic, Spain 10,000 Clay Mexico Ximena Hermoso Russia Evgeniya Pashkova
Bulgaria Isabella Shinikova
1–6, 2–6
Loss 7–7 Oct 2013 ITF Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain 25,000 Clay Spain Lara Arruabarrena Argentina Tatiana Búa
Venezuela Andrea Gámiz
6–4, 2–6, [7–10]
Win 8–7 Feb 2015 ITF Palma Nova, Spain 10,000 Clay Italy Alice Savoretti Romania Irina Bara
Hungary Ágnes Bukta
6–4, 6–1
Win 9–7 Jul 2015 ITF Viserba, Italy 10,000 Clay Italy Alice Savoretti Italy Martina Di Giuseppe
Italy Giorgia Marchetti
6–3, 3–6, [10–3]
Win 10–7 Oct 2015 ITF La Vall d'Uixó, Spain 10,000 Clay Italy Alice Savoretti Spain María Cañero Pérez
Spain María Gutiérrez Carrasco
6–1, 6–2
Win 11–7 Nov 2015 ITF Benicarló, Spain 10,000 Clay Italy Alice Savoretti Ukraine Oleksandra Korashvili
Romania Ioana Loredana Roșca
6–3, 6–2
Loss 11–8 Feb 2016 ITF Palma Nova, Spain 10,000 Clay Italy Alice Savoretti Russia Valeria Savinykh
Ukraine Alyona Sotnikova
6–2, 4–6, [6–10]
Loss 11–9 Mar 2016 ITF Heraklion, Greece 10,000 Hard Italy Alice Savoretti Russia Aleksandra Pospelova
Russia Alina Silich
2–6, 2–6
Win 12–9 May 2016 ITF Caserta, Italy 25,000 Clay Italy Alice Savoretti Ukraine Oleksandra Korashvili
Russia Maria Marfutina
6–7(9), 7–6(5), [10–6]
Win 13–9 Jun 2016 ITF Nieuwpoort, Belgium 10,000 Clay Italy Alice Savoretti Belgium Steffi Distelmans
Netherlands Quirine Lemoine
6–2, 6–7(4), [10–8]
Loss 13–10 Jul 2016 ITF Denain, France 25,000 Clay Italy Alice Savoretti Slovakia Michaela Hončová
France Shérazad Reix
1–6, 3–6
Win 14–10 Nov 2016 ITF Benicarló, Spain 10,000 Clay Ecuador Charlotte Römer Ukraine Oleksandra Korashvili
Australia Isabelle Wallace
5–7, 6–3, [10–7]
Loss 14–11 Apr 2017 ITF Pelham, United States 25,000 Clay Croatia Tena Lukas United States Emina Bektas
United States Sanaz Marand
w/o
Win 15–11 Apr 2019 ITF Tabarka, Tunisia 15,000 Clay Spain Ángela Fita Boluda United States Sarah Lee
Belgium 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
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