Amanda Carreras
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Carreras at the 2015 Wimbledon
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| Full name | Amanda Carreras |
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| Country (sports) |
 United Kingdom Gibraltar
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| Born |
16 May 1990 Gibraltar |
| Turned pro | 2008 |
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
| Prize money | $112,701 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 321–210 |
| Career titles | 9 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 258 (20 March 2017) |
| Current ranking | No. 258 (20 March 2017) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Wimbledon | Q1 (2013, 2015) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 124–86 |
| Career titles | 14 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 286 (20 March 2017) |
| Current ranking | No. 286 (20 March 2017) |
| Last updated on: 22 February 2017. | |
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.
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).
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.
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.
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