Dabrowski is of Polish origin and speaks English, French, and Polish. Dabrowski played in her first provincial tournament when she was eight. Her first big victory was at the provincial 10-and-under Future Stars at nine years old. Dabrowski was a finalist at the Ontario 14-and-under Provincial Championships and finished in the top 8 at the 14-and-under National Championships. During her teens, she chose to start training at Saddlebrook Academies in Tampa.[5]
Career
2006–12: Early years
At the beginning of 2006, she became the first Canadian to win Les Petits As, one of the most prestigious 14-and-under tournaments in the world.[6] In December 2006, Dabrowski reached the doubles final of the 16-and-under Orange Bowl in Miami.[6] Dabrowski also won the Junior Orange Bowl in December 2009 where she defeated top-seeded Kristina Mladenovic. She was the first Canadian to capture the title since Carling Bassett-Seguso did it as a 15-year-old in 1982.[7] At the junior event of the Australian Open in January 2010, Dabrowski was a runner-up in doubles with partner Tímea Babos.[8] She finished 2010 ranked fifth in the junior rankings, and so decided to transition to the professional level.[5] In November 2011, she made it to her first professional singles final at the $50k Toronto Challenger, but lost to qualifier Amra Sadiković. Dabrowski reached, in November 2012, the semifinals of the $75k Challenger in Phoenix.[9]
2014: WTA Tour doubles title and career-high ranking in singles
Dabrowski in 2014
At her first competition of the season, the $25k tournament in Vero Beach, Dabrowski reached the fourth singles final of her career but was defeated by Laura Siegemund.[15] At the French Open, she made it to the second round of the doubles event with Alicja Rosolska.[16] In July at the Swedish Open, Dabrowski qualified for her first WTA Tour main draw and upset world No. 39, Camila Giorgi, in the opening round, her first top-50 win.[17] She was eliminated in three sets by Mona Barthel in the next round.[18] At the Washington Open, Dabrowski won the first WTA doubles title of her career. With partner Shuko Aoyama she defeated Hiroko Kuwata and Kurumi Nara in straight sets in the final.[19] At the US Open, she reached the third round in doubles with Rosolska.[20] In November, Dabrowski made it to the final of the $50k Tevlin Challenger where she won her first professional singles title over Maria Sanchez.[21]
In February, Dabrowski and María José Martínez Sánchez reached the semifinals of the WTA Premier 5 in Doha.[30] In June, she reached the doubles final of the Nottingham Open with Yang Zhaoxuan.[31] The next week at the inaugural Mallorca Open, she won her third WTA Tour doubles title, this time with partner Martínez Sánchez.[32] At Wimbledon, Dabrowski continued her partnership with the Spaniard. In the opening round, she triumphed against fellow Canadian Eugenie Bouchard and her partner Sabine Lisicki in straight sets, to reach the second round for the first time. In the next round, against Anabel Medina Garrigues and Arantxa Parra Santonja, the duo failed to close out the match and squandered a 6–4, 5–2 lead, and ended up losing in three sets.[33] At the Rio Olympics in August, she advanced to the second round with compatriot Bouchard.[34] In October, Dabrowski and Martínez Sánchez reached the semifinals at the Premier Mandatory in Beijing.[35] She won the second singles title of her career in November at the $25k in Nashville, where she defeated Jennifer Elie in straight sets.[36]
2017: Partnership with Xu Yifan, major title in mixed doubles
In January at the Hobart International, Dabrowski reached the final in doubles with Yang Zhaoxuan.[37] In April, she won her first Premier Mandatory doubles title in Miami defeating, with new partner Xu Yifan, the third seeds Sania Mirza and Barbora Strýcová in the final.[38] In May, she qualified for the tournament in Rabat, achieving this feat for the fourth time in her career and the first since 2015. She defeated Lina Qostal in her opener for her second WTA main-draw win but lost to Francesca Schiavone in the second round.[39]
At the French Open, Dabrowski reached the third round in doubles and won the title in mixed doubles with Rohan Bopanna, becoming the first Canadian woman to win a Grand Slam title.[3] At the Premier event in New Haven, she captured her second doubles title of the season, also her second with partner Xu Yifan.[40] At the US Open, she advanced to the quarterfinals in both doubles and mixed doubles.[41] In September at the Tournoi de Québec, she qualified for her second WTA Tour main draw of the season where she lost to defending champion Océane Dodin in the first round, in three sets.[42] In October, Dabrowski qualified for her first WTA Finals with Xu Yifan, but lost in the quarterfinals to defending champions, Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina.[43][44]
2018: Second major title and top 10 debut in doubles
In January, Dabrowski won her sixth WTA doubles title and her third with partner Xu Yifan at the Premier event in Sydney.[45] At the Australian Open, she reached the quarterfinals in women's doubles with Xu Yifan and won the mixed-doubles event with Mate Pavić, her second Grand Slam title.[4] In February, she won the second biggest career doubles title to date with a victory at the Premier 5 in Doha with Jeļena Ostapenko. With this win, she became only the fourth Canadian female player to reach the top 10 in singles or doubles, with a debut at No. 8.[46] At the French Open, Dabrowski reached the final in mixed doubles for the second straight year, this time with Pavić, but failed to defend her title with a loss to Latisha Chan and Ivan Dodig. She also made it to the third round in doubles with Xu.[47]
2019: First Grand Slam doubles final
In May, Dabrowski and Xu were runners-up in the Madrid Open, which they followed up by winning the Nuremberg Cup. In June, they reached the quarterfinals of the French Open.
They reached the final of Wimbledon, losing to Hsieh Su-wei and Barbora Strýcová. In August, they reached the semifinals of the Rogers Cup, and two weeks later reached the quarterfinals of the US Open. Their performance during the year earned them a place in the WTA Finals, but they went out at the round-robin stage. Dabrowski and Pavić reached the final of the French Open for the second successive year, but were again beaten by Chan and Dodig.
2020–2021: WTA 1000 title, six WTA Tour finals, world No. 5 in doubles
Dabrowski reached the finals of the Premier event in Adelaide playing with Darija Jurak. At the 2020 Australian Open, she reached the quarterfinals in women's doubles with Jeļena Ostapenko, and the semifinals of mixed doubles with Henri Kontinen. With Ostapenko, she reached also the WTA 1000 event final at the Qatar Ladies Open.
In October, she reached another Premier final, in Ostrava, playing with new partner Luisa Stefani.[48]
Seeded fifth, Dabrowski won her third WTA 1000 and first with Stefani at the 2021 Canadian Open, avenging their loss in the final in San Jose to Darija Jurak and Andreja Klepač.[49] The following week, they followed this successful run by another, reaching the WTA 1000 final at the Cincinnati Open by defeating current Olympic champions, second seeded pair Krejčíková/Siniaková. They lost the final to Sam Stosur and Zhang Shuai.[50]
In their first major together, the duo reached the semifinals of the US Open, but they were forced to retire when Stefani injured her knee.[51] On October 18, Dabrowski ascended to world No. 5 in the WTA doubles rankings, thus becoming the highest ranked Canadian ever in the discipline.[52]
2022: New partnership and first WTA 1000 title with Olmos, world No. 4
Dabrowski announced she will play the 2022 season with Giuliana Olmos, with whom she had partnered to reach the semifinals at the 2021 Miami Open, but stated she could be open to play again with Stefani.[53] Seeded second, they went on to win their first WTA1000 together at the Madrid Open.[54] Dabrowski and Olmos followed that by also reaching the final of the Italian Open.[55] She reached a new career-high doubles ranking of No. 4, on 11 July 2022.
In September, Dabrowski reunited with Stefani in her return to WTA Tour and won with her the Chennai Open, afterwards getting the Pan Pacific Open title with Olmos, both titles without losing a single set.[56][57]
Following this successful runs, she qualified for her fourth WTA Finals with Olmos in their first appearance as a team.[58] The duo was coached by Dr. Dave Marshall in 2022.
2023: US Open champion, return to top 10
In August, seeded 16th as a pair with new partner Erin Routliffe at the US Open, Dabrowski made her eleventh Grand Slam quarterfinal. They defeated sixth seeds Leylah Fernandez and Taylor Townsend in three sets to make the semifinals. There, they defeated Hsieh Su-wei who was on a 16-match major winning streak, having won both the 2023 French Open and the 2023 Wimbledon Championships, and Wang Xinyu to reach the final for the first time in Routliffe's career and second in Dabrowski's. In the final, they took on former champions Laura Siegemund and Vera Zvonareva. They defeated them in straight sets to claim the US Open title, a first Grand Slam title for both players.[59][2] As a result, she returned to the top 10, at world No. 9 on 11 September 2023.
Their strong performance in the latter half of 2023 meant Dabrowski/Routliffe qualified for the WTA Finals in Cancún. This was Dabrowski's fifth year qualifying for the year-end tournament, and Routliffe's first. There the pair went undefeated in the group stage, without dropping a set, setting up a semifinal match with the eighth seeds Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Ellen Perez. Dabrowski/Routliffe lost the match in a tight match tiebreaker.
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Dabrowski was named to Team Canada during the Billie Jean King Cup finals in November 2023. Dabrowski won all three of her doubles matches, helping Team Canada secure the victory. This marks the first time Canada has won the competition.[62]
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.
1 The first Premier 5 event of the year has switched back and forth between the Dubai Tennis Championships and the Qatar Ladies Open since 2009. Dubai was classified as a Premier 5 event from 2009 to 2011 before being succeeded by Doha for the 2012–2014 period. Since 2015, the two tournaments alternate between Premier 5 and Premier status every year.
Dabrowski's win–loss record (9–32, 22%) against players who were ranked world No. 100 or higher when played is as follows:[69] Players who have been ranked world No. 1 are in boldface.