30 Facts About Caroline Dolehide

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Caroline Dolehide is an American professional tennis player.

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Caroline Dolehide achieved a career-high ranking of world No 99 in May 2023.

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Caroline Dolehide made her WTA Tour debut in July 2017, and won her first WTA title at the Monterrey Open in Mexico in March 2021.

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Caroline Dolehide won her first Grand Slam match at the 2018 French Open.

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Caroline Dolehide has an aggressive style of play, and possesses the ability to hit powerful groundstroke winners, especially on the forehand side.

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Caroline Dolehide grew up in the Chicago suburbs, where she began playing tennis at five years old.

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Caroline Dolehide has an older sister Courtney who played college tennis at UCLA, coached women's tennis at UT Austin, and became the head coach of men's and women's tennis at Georgetown in 2018.

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Caroline Dolehide worked with her youth coach Tom Lockhart since the age of six.

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Caroline Dolehide attended Hinsdale Central High School until her sophomore year, when she moved to Florida to train with the United States Tennis Association.

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Caroline Dolehide had verbally committed to play tennis at UCLA, but ultimately decided to forgo attending college to pursue a career as a professional.

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In 2014, Caroline Dolehide reached the semifinals of the girls' singles event at the US Open, despite needing to qualify for the main draw.

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Caroline Dolehide was then forced to skip the 2015 US Open and most of the remaining events that season after breaking her left foot.

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Caroline Dolehide began playing regularly on the ITF Women's Circuit in 2016, after missing the second half of 2015 with a broken left foot.

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Caroline Dolehide won her first WTA Tour-level match against world No 48, Naomi Osaka, before losing to compatriot Madison Keys in the next round.

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Caroline Dolehide played in the doubles event at Stanford with her Junior US Open partner Kayla Day.

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In March 2018, Caroline Dolehide was awarded a wildcard into the main draw of the Indian Wells Open, where she picked up her first two match wins at a Premier Mandatory tournament, including a second round victory over No 30 Dominika Cibulkova.

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Caroline Dolehide pushed Simona Halep to three sets in her third-round loss to the world No 1 player.

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Caroline Dolehide continued her momentum into the clay-court season, where she won the $60k event at Indian Harbour Beach, the biggest title of her career.

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Caroline Dolehide closed out the clay-court season by qualifying for the French Open.

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Caroline Dolehide received a wildcard into the US Open doubles draw with Christina McHale and reached the third round.

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Caroline Dolehide fared better in doubles in the first half of the year, reaching two $100k finals.

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Caroline Dolehide finished runner-up at Bonita Springs in Florida with Usue Maitane Arconada, before winning a title at the Surbiton Trophy with Jennifer Brady.

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Caroline Dolehide continued to struggle in singles and reached a year-low of No 283 in the singles rankings on 12 August 2019.

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Caroline Dolehide's form began to rebound in a big way after she brought back two medals from the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru.

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The next day, Caroline Dolehide earned a second place finish in singles and added a silver medal to her haul.

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Back in the States, Caroline Dolehide promptly won her first singles title of the year at the $60k Thoreau Open.

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Caroline Dolehide made her singles debut at the 2022 Australian Open and the WTA 1000 Guadalajara Open after qualifying.

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Caroline Dolehide reached the third round of the 2023 Credit One Charleston Open defeating Sabine Lisicki and Linda Fruhvirtova.

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Caroline Dolehide made her top 100 singles debut on 22 May 2023, following winning the W60 ITF title in Naples, Florida.

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Caroline Dolehide is known for having a strong serve and powerful groundstrokes, which she uses to a hit a high number of winners.