12 Facts About Amanda Carreras

On 24 July 2012, Amanda Carreras carried the Olympic flame in the torch relay in Ealing, London.

Nicola Bosio passed on the flame to Amanda Carreras who was described as one of Gibraltar's finest sportswomen.

Amanda Carreras only competed in a total of nine tournaments over the course of her junior career, reaching the quarterfinals in only one of them.

Amanda Carreras's career-high combined junior ranking was world No 548.

Amanda 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.

Amanda Carreras 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.

Amanda Carreras ended the 2007 season with a ranking of world No 873.

In March 2008, Amanda Carreras reached another ITF quarterfinal, this time in Antalya.

Amanda Carreras reached the final in her very next tournament where she lost to Elitsa Kostova, in three sets.

Amanda Carreras's ranking at the end of 2008 had risen almost 300 places to world No 591.

Amanda Carreras began her 2009 season on clay courts and reached another $10k semifinal in March.

Amanda Carreras followed this up by reaching the quarterfinals of her following tournament which was a $10k event.