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steven


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L32: Amanda Carreras WR 384 v Danka Kovinic (MNE) WR 299 (CH 277 in July)

H2H 1-0 - Amanda won 4 & 3 in Mallorca in 2010 just before Kovinic's 16th birthday.



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Pella reached the semi-finals of Sevilla 25K as a qualifier 2 weeks ago.

<surreptitiously trimmed following Indiana's post below LOL>



-- Edited by steven on Tuesday 30th of October 2012 06:12:33 PM

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Whisper -  Pella isn't ranked higher than Amanda  smile

Good win, which will certainly propel Amanda up to a CH on Monday week on top of maybe inching it up on Monday.  Be great if she could add at least one further win this week.



-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 30th of October 2012 06:06:38 PM

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Via the Argentine Tennis Federation's twitter:

L32: Amanda Carreras WR 384 beat Danka Kovinic (MNE) WR 299 (CH 277 in July) by 6-2 3-6 6-4 biggrin

L16: Amanda Carreras WR 384 v (WC) Catalina Pella (ARG) WR 417 (CH 350 in 2011)

A good win for Amanda! 19yo Pella knocked out 8th seed Auroux WR 246 2 & 4 today so could be even tougher than her ranking implies.



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I wonder if she's Guido's sister

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L16: Amanda Carreras WR 384 beat (WC) Catalina Pella (ARG) WR 417 (CH 350 in 2011) by 3 & 4

QF: Amanda Carreras WR 384 v María-Fernanda Álvarez Terán (BOL) WR 352 (CH 187 in 2009)

H2H: 1-1 - Amanda got thrashed 1 & 0 in Morocco in 2006 but got her revenge in 3 sets in Sweden in June this year.

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Good week already for the ever improving and steadily climbing Amanda. She was only 18th highest ranked of the 32 MD players

Amanda also played doubles; with less success:
WD R1: CARRERAS, Amanda/HERMOSO, Ximena (GBR/MEX) 947 lost to DUARTE, Ana-Clara/GONCALVES, Paula Cristina (BRA/BRA) 736 3-6 2-6


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QF: Amanda Carreras WR 384 beat María-Fernanda Álvarez Terán (BOL) WR 352 (CH 187 in 2009) by 7-6(1) 6-1 biggrin

That is very likely to take Amanda into the top 350 for the first time



-- Edited by steven on Thursday 1st of November 2012 05:12:34 PM

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Excellent news from the pampas!
Another definite CH for Amanda.

She now gets a chance to take on either :
Raluca Olaru (ROU): 259 (CH: 53 07/2009) - H2H N/A
María Irigoyen [7] (ARG): 207 (CH: 167 07/2010) - H2H N/A



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SF: Amanda Carreras WR 384 v Raluca Olaru (ROU) WR 259 (CH 53 in 2009)

Olaru, the runner-up in Brasilia last week, has beaten the 1st and 7th seeds this week.

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All credit to Mandy for a good set of results recently, I wonder whether we'll ever see her play in this country.

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philwrig wrote:

All credit to Mandy for a good set of results recently, I wonder whether we'll ever see her play in this country.

 She's a clay court specialist so I think that would limit her to the 10Ks in Edinburgh and Bournemouth.



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If the Argentine Tennis Association twitter is to be believed (and they've been right every time this week so far), Amanda has really outdone herself today!

SF: Amanda Carreras WR 384 beat Raluca Olaru (ROU) WR 259 (CH 53 in 2009) by 3 & 3 biggrin

This win, against last week's runner-up in Brasilia, who had already taken out the 1st & 7th seeds this week, takes Amanda into her first 25K singles Final and will give her a ranking in the 330s, about 50 places above the career high she set on Monday and about 250 places higher than she was at the start of the year.

 



-- Edited by steven on Friday 2nd of November 2012 05:04:53 PM

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Lots of praise for Amanda on Tennisforum. People who watched her play her second round match describe her game as aggressive but also not going for too much too soon, but generally aiming to dictate play.

Olaru has a lot of pedigree so will be tough, but I'll be interested to see how Mandy does against a higher calibre opponent (though she has taken some impressive scalps already this week).

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There's a pic of Amanda after her QF win yesterday at http://pic.twitter.com/2cdSXpGO - the journo who tweeted it also interviewed her yesterday, tweeting a few minutes ago as follows - I can't find the actual interview published anywhere yet:

Raul de Kemmeter @raulfiber

De 22 años, actualmente #Carreras ocupa su mejor ubicación en el ranking (381°) y hace 1 mes perdió la final del 10K de Madrid con Tati Bua

Para que tengan medida de cómo es su estilo de juego, concibe el tenis parecido a Catalina Pella, pero con menos altura de pelota #Carreras

Nacida en Gibraltar criada tenísticamente en Oxford y radicada desde la adolescencia en Barcelona. Su superficie preferida es clay #Carreras
 
Me explicó cómo funciona el tenis femenino en GBR y me dijo que la LTA (asociación británica) sólo apoya a los Top 200 del ranking
 
Uno de sus momentos más preciados es su participación en los Juegos del Commonwealth hace unos años #Carreras

Bien por Amanda Carreras que se metió en la final del #WCAAT25KTCA derrotando a Olarú por 6-3 y 6-3.Ayer la entrevisté y me contó de su vida
 
... turning the above tweets round into order, we get in English:
 
Great for Amanda Carreras, who puts herself in the Final beating Olaru 6-3 6-3. Yesterday I interviewed her and she told me her life story.
 
One of her most treasured memories was taking part in the Commonwealth Games a few years ago.
 
She explained how women's tennis works in GBR and told me that the LTA only supports those ranked in the top 200. <not completely true, but we know what she means>
 
Born in Gibraltar, brought up 'tennistically' in Oxford and resident in Barcelona since adolescence, her favourite surface is clay.
 
So you get an idea of her playing style, think of tennis similar to that of Catalina Pella but keeping the ball lower. <not much use when we know even less about Pella, but never mind!>
 
22 years old, Carreras is currently at a career high ranking of 381 <actually 384, but we'll let him off > and a month ago she lost the Madrid 10K Final to Tati Bua.


-- Edited by steven on Friday 2nd of November 2012 05:39:00 PM

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