40 Facts About Caroline Dolehide

Caroline Dolehide is an American professional tennis player.

Caroline Dolehide achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No 41 on 2 October 2023 and a doubles ranking of No 9 on 26 August 2024.

Caroline Dolehide is a six-times majors semifinalist in doubles: at the 2019 US Open with Vania King, and at the 2022 US Open with Storm Sanders; in 2021 and in 2023 at Wimbledon with Zhang Shuai; and in 2024 at Roland Garros and at Wimbledon with Desirae Krawczyk.

Caroline Dolehide was a two-time Grand Slam tournament finalist in doubles as a junior.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Caroline Dolehide won her first singles title of the year at the $60k 2019 Concord Open.

Caroline Dolehide won her maiden WTA Tour doubles title, partnering Asia Muhammad at the 2021 Monterrey Open where they defeated Heather Watson and Zheng Saisai in the final in straight sets.

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

In 2023, Caroline Dolehide reached back-to-back quarterfinals at the Australian Open, partnering Anna Kalinskaya.

Caroline Dolehide reached the round of 16 at the Charleston Open defeating Sabine Lisicki and Linda Fruhvirtova, before losing to eventual champion Ons Jabeur.

Caroline Dolehide made her top 100 singles debut on 22 May 2023 at world No 99, after winning the $60k title in Naples, Florida.

Caroline Dolehide reached the semifinals in doubles at Wimbledon with Zhang Shuai, before losing to third seeds Elise Mertens and Storm Hunter.

Caroline Dolehide became the eighth player to reach a WTA 1000 semifinal with a ranking outside of the top 100 and the lowest ranked player at world No 111 since Svetlana Kuznetsova at world No 153 in Cincinnati 2019.

Caroline Dolehide was the sixth first-time finalist at WTA 1000 events in 2023, following Rybakina, Kalinina, Samsonova, Gauff and Muchova.

Caroline Dolehide won her first WTA 1000 doubles title at the Canadian Open with Krawczyk and reached world No 12 in the rankings on 12 August 2024.

At the Guangzhou Open, Caroline Dolehide reached her first singles final in more than a year with wins over lucky loser Elena Pridankina, second seed Marie Bouzkova, seventh seed Jessica Bouzas Maneiro, and then Lucia Bronzetti in the semifinal where she saved four match points.

Caroline Dolehide lost the final against Olga Danilovic in straight sets.

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