Caroline Dolehide

Early life and background Dolehide grew up in the Chicago suburbs, where she began playing tennis at five years old. She 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. Her younger sister Stephanie also plays tennis, and has committed to West Point. Her brother Brian plays collegiate golf at Florida Atlantic University.

Dolehide worked with her youth coach Tom Lockhart since the age of six. Dolehide attended Hinsdale Central High School until her sophomore year, when she moved to Florida to train with the United States Tennis Association (USTA) at the USTA National Campus. At this point, she began working with Stephen Huss, a former Australian professional tennis player. Dolehide had verbally committed to play tennis at UCLA, but ultimately decided to forgo attending college to pursue a career as a professional.

Career Juniors In 2014, Dolehide reached the semifinals of the girls' singles event at the US Open, despite needing to qualify for the main draw. She upset three of the top ten seeds in the tournament, including Markéta Vondroušová in the first round, before losing to the eventual champion Marie Bouzková. Later that year, she also made it to the semifinals of the Eddie Herr Championships and the quarterfinals at the Orange Bowl, two prestigious Grade 1 tournaments. Dolehide was then forced to skip the 2015 US Open and most of the remaining events that season after breaking her left foot. This injury prevented her from continuing to climb in the rankings. In the last few tournaments of her junior career, Dolehide achieved two of her best results with two major runner-ups, the first at the 2015 French Open with partner Katerina Stewart and the second at the 2016 US Open with partner Kayla Day.

2016–17: ITF Circuit titles & WTA Tour quarterfinal, top 150 Dolehide began playing regularly on the ITF Women's Circuit in 2016, after missing the second half of 2015 with a broken left foot. In June, she won both the singles and doubles events at the $10k tournament in Buffalo for her first professional titles. She won her first tour-level match against world No. 48, Naomi Osaka, before losing to compatriot Madison Keys in the next round. This success helped her crack the top 200 of the WTA rankings for the first time. After the 2017 US Open, Dolehide made her first WTA Tour quarterfinal at the Tournoi de Québec to rise to a career-high ranking of No. 137 on 18 September 2017.

Dolehide also played in the doubles event at Stanford with her Junior US Open partner Kayla Day. The pair had already reached two finals and won one title on the ITF Circuit in February, and they continued their success together by making it to the semifinals in their doubles debut on the WTA Tour. The two of them were also awarded a wildcard into the US Open, where they upset tenth-seeded veteran doubles specialists Abigail Spears and Katarina Srebotnik in their Grand Slam debut in doubles. A few weeks later, Dolehide followed up this performance by winning a 100k title at the Abierto Tampico with veteran María Irigoyen, a victory that helped her finish the year just inside the top 100 of the WTA doubles rankings.

2018: Major & WTA 1000 debuts in singles

In March 2018, 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 Cibulková. She also pushed Simona Halep to three sets in her third-round loss to the world No. 1 player.

She closed out the clay-court season by qualifying for the French Open. In her major main-draw debut in singles, Dolehide defeated Viktorija Golubic before losing to Madison Keys in the following match. In the next few months, she also made her debuts at Wimbledon as a lucky loser and the US Open as a direct acceptance, but lost in the opening round in both tournaments. She also received a wild card into the US Open doubles draw with Christina McHale and reached the third round. The next day, Dolehide earned a second-place finish in singles and added a silver medal to her haul. With this performance, Dolehide rose to No. 72 in doubles.

2022: Australian Open debut, US Open semifinals in doubles She made her singles debut at the Australian Open and the WTA 1000 Guadalajara Open after qualifying.

In doubles, she reached the quarterfinals at the Australian Open and semifinals at the US Open, partnering Storm Hunter.

2023: WTA 1000 final & top 50 in singles, major semifinal in doubles In 2023, Dolehide reached back-to-back quarterfinals at the Australian Open, partnering Anna Kalinskaya.

Ranked No. 206, she reached her second WTA Tour-level quarterfinal at the 2023 Monterrey Open as a qualifier defeating Jule Niemeier and Anna Karolína Schmiedlová and her first since Québec City in 2017. As a result, she moved close to 40 positions up in the rankings.

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

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

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

At the Guadalajara Open, she reached the third round of a WTA 1000 for the second time in her career. Next, she defeated eighth seed Ekaterina Alexandrova to reach her first WTA 1000 singles quarterfinal. Then, she defeated Martina Trevisan and reached her first WTA Tour semifinal in a close to three hours match. She 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. With her win over Sofia Kenin and reaching the final, she also became the second lowest ranked finalist (after Kuznetsova) at a WTA 1000 level since the introduction of the format in 2009. She was also the sixth first-time finalist at WTA 1000 events in 2023, following Rybakina, Kalinina, Samsonova, Gauff and Muchova. Excluding 2009, the year when the format started, only 2018 has had more (a record of seven). As a result, she moved up close to 70 positions to a new career-high ranking in the top 45, on 25 September 2023. At the same tournament, immediately following her singles quarterfinal match, she also reached the semifinals with Asia Muhammad defeating Miyu Kato and Aldila Sutjiadi in one hour. They subsequently lost to top seeds and eventual champions, Elise Mertens and Storm Hunter.

2024: Major semifinal, WTA 1000 title and world No. 9 in doubles Partnering Desirae Krawczyk, she reached the final of the WTA 1000 Qatar Ladies Open but lost to Luisa Stefani and Krawczyk's former partner Demi Schuurs.

At the French Open, she reached the semifinals for the first time at this tournament with Krawczyk but lost to Coco Gauff and Katerina Siniaková. Despite the loss, she made her top 20 debut at world No. 18 in doubles on 10 June 2024. At the Birmingham Classic, where she entered the main draw as a lucky loser, she defeated Karolína Plíšková saving two match points, and fifth seed Elise Mertens by retirement to reach the quarterfinals where she lost to eventual champion Yulia Putintseva. Partnering Krawczyk, she made the semifinals at Wimbledon where they lost to second seeds, Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe. second seed Daria Kasatkina and Amanda Anisimova to reach the semifinals where she lost to eventual champion Paula Badosa. She 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. Following a second round showing with Krawczyk at the Cincinnati Open, she reached the top 10 in the doubles rankings on 19 August 2024, and world No. 9 a week later on 27 August 2024. At the US Open, she recorded her first singles win at the tournament over 11th seed Danielle Collins, before losing in the second round to Sara Errani.

At the Guangzhou Open, Dolehide reached her first singles final in more than a year (since 2023 in Guadalajara) with wins over lucky loser Elena Pridankina, second seed Marie Bouzková, seventh seed Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro, and then Lucia Bronzetti in the semifinal where she saved four match points. She lost the final against Olga Danilović in straight sets. As a result, she returned to the top 100 on 28 October 2024, raising close to 25 positions up in the singles rankings, having been ranked No. 101 in the beginning of the tournament.

Partnering Desirae Krawczyk, Dolehide qualified for the end-of-season WTA Finals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, but they were eliminated in the group stages losing all three of their matches.

2025: ATX Open quarterfinal, Indian Wells third round At the ATX Open, Dolehide defeated qualifier Anastasia Zakharova and Varvara Gracheva to make it through to the quarterfinals, at which point her run was ended by Greet Minnen. The following week at the WTA 1000 tournament in Indian Wells, she overcame Kamilla Rakhimova and lucky loser Eva Lys, before losing to 18th seed Marta Kostyuk in the third round.

2026: Third career doubles title As top seeds, Dolehide partnered with Irina Khromacheva to win her third WTA Tour doubles title at the Copa Colsanitas, defeating Valeriya Strakhova and Anastasia Tikhonova in the final.

Playing style Dolehide is an aggressive baseliner. She is known for having a strong serve and powerful groundstrokes, which she uses to a hit a high number of winners. Her forehand in particular is one of her best shots and was already very advanced while she was still a teenager. Venus Williams defeated Dolehide at the 2018 Canadian Open, but commented that "she had a really great second serve."

Performance timelines

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.

Singles Current through the 2026 Cincinnati Open.

Doubles Current through the 2026 Wimbledon Championships

Significant finals WTA 1000 tournaments

Singles: 1 (runner-up)

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up) ResultYearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentScoreLoss 2024 Qatar Ladies Open Hard Desirae Krawczyk Demi Schuurs Luisa Stefani 4–6, 2–6Win 2024 Canadian Open Hard Desirae Krawczyk Gabriela Dabrowski Erin Routliffe 7–6(7–2), 3–6, [10–7]

WTA Tour finals

Singles: 2 (2 runner-ups) LegendWTA 1000 (0–1) WTA 250 (0–1)Finals by surfaceHard (0–2)Finals by settingOutdoor (0–2)

Doubles: 9 (3 titles, 6 runner-ups) LegendWTA 1000 (1–1)WTA 500 (0–3)WTA 250 (2–2)Finals by surfaceHard (2–3)Clay (1–1)Grass (0–2)Finals by settingOutdoor (3–6)

WTA 125 finals

Doubles: 2 (titles)

ITF Circuit finals Singles: 13 (9 titles, 4 runner-ups) Legend$100,000 tournaments (1–0)$60,000 tournaments (4–2)$25,000 tournaments (3–2)$10,000 tournaments (1–0)Finals by surfaceHard (4–2)Clay (5–2)

Doubles: 13 (9 titles, 4 runner-ups) Legend$100,000 tournaments (3–2)$80,000 tournaments (2–0)$60,000 tournaments (0–1)$25,000 tournaments (3–1)$10,000 tournaments (1–0)Finals by surfaceHard (5–3)Clay (3–1)Grass (1–0)

Junior Grand Slam tournament finals

Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups)