Océane Dodin

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Océane Dodin

Océane Dodin at the 2019 Wimbledon qualifying
Country (sports)	France
Residence	Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France
Born	(1996-10-24) 24 October 1996 (age 25) Lille, France
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Turned pro	2011
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Thomas Drouet
Prize money	US$ 1,539,770
Singles
Career record	307–191 (61.6%)
Career titles	1 WTA, 12 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 46 (12 June 2017)
Current ranking	No. 101 (15 November 2021)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	2R (2015, 2017)
French Open	2R (2017)
Wimbledon	1R (2017)
US Open	2R (2015, 2017)
Doubles
Career record	2–4 (33.3%)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 375 (23 October 2017)
Current ranking	No. 1348 (15 November 2021)
Grand Slam Doubles results
French Open	1R (2021)
Wimbledon	2R (2017)
US Open	1R (2017)
Last updated on: 24 November 2021.

Océane Dodin (French pronunciation: ​[ɔsean dɔdɛ̃], born 24 October 1996), is a French professional tennis player. She has been ranked No. 46 in the world in singles and No. 375 in doubles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Dodin has won one singles title on the WTA Tour – the 2016 Coupe Banque Nationale in Québec. In addition, she has won 12 singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.

Personal life[]

Dodin was born on 24 October 1996, in Lille, France. An only child, she played tennis with her parents. Her father, Frederic Dodin, was also her coach for a time. Her tennis idols are Maria Sharapova and Roger Federer.^[1]

Professional career[]

2011–13: French Open qualifying debut, ITF debut and first title[]

Dodin began playing on the ITF Circuit in July 2011 at the age of 14. She first participated at the $10K Valladolid tournament, where she get to the main-draw as a qualifier. Her first bigger improvement was in the March of the following year at the $10k Bron tournament after reaching her first semifinal.

A year later, in April 2013, Dodin reached her first final and also won the title at the $10k Les Franqueses del Valles tournament. She followed this up with her first Grand Slam qualifying at the French Open. As a wildcard player, she faced a much higher ranked player Teliana Pereira but lost in straight sets.

2014: Good performances on the ITF Tour, raising in the rankings and top 200 debut[]

No progress was made in the first four months. Dodin then won two back-to-back $10k tournaments in Antalya and Amarante. In July, she reached the semifinal of the $15k Imola tournament, then followed this up with making it to the final of the $10k Valladolid. In September, she won her first $25k level tournament in Shrewsbury and made her debut in the top 500.

This also helped her then made her WTA Tour debut in qualifying at the Luxembourg Open. She failed to reach main-draw after losing to Ivana Jorović. The following three tournaments were successful for Dodin. First, she reached her first final of the highest ITF level tournament in Poitiers. Second, she advanced to semifinal of the Open de Limoges, making there her debut at the WTA Challenger. And third, she won the $25k Zawada tournament after defeating Jeļena Ostapenko in the final. As a result, she made her debut in the top 200.

2015: Grand Slam and WTA Tour debut[]

Dodin at the 2015 Luxemburg Open

Season of 2015 was a season of big progress for Dodin. She first played at the Australian Open where as a wildcard player made her Grand Slam main-draw debut. In additional, she won her first Grand Slam match after defeating Alison Riske in the first round.^[2] In the following round she faced Karolína Plíšková but lost in the three sets.^[3] After a few failings to make her WTA Tour debut, she managed to do it as a lucky loser at the Internationaux de Strasbourg in May. She followed this up with another Grand Slam wildcard at the French Open but lost to Kurumi Nara in the first round.^[4]

In the early June, she made her debut on the grass surface, playing in the main draw of Rosmalen Championships. At Wimbledon, she failed to reach the main draw. She was then forced to played again at the ITF Circuit. At the US Open she get another wildcard. In the first round, she made her biggest win to date, defeating former No. 1 Jelena Janković.^[5] By the end of the year, she played at two more WTA qualifying. First, she failed to reach main-draw at the Linz Open but succeed at the Luxembourg Open. She finished year with the title at the $25k Shrewsbury tournament.

2016: Breakthrough, first WTA singles title, top 100 debut[]

Dodin, 2016

Started of the year was not promising for Dodin. She failed in qualifying of Brisbane International and Hobart International, followed up then with first round at the Australian Open. This moved her back to the ITF Circuit. However, she done well there. Since late January until April, she reached four ITF semifinals, including two $50K level tournaments - Andrézieux-Bouthéon and Croissy-Beaubourg. In April, she passed qualiying at two WTA tournaments - the Stuttgart Open and the Prague Open. Then, at the Madrid Open she attempt to make her Premier 5/Mandatory main-draw debut but failed in the qualiying. At the French Open she get wildcard but lost to former No. 1 Ana Ivanovic. After failing in qualifying of Wimbledon, she reached final of the claycourt $100k Contrexéville tournament. She lost to her compatriot Pauline Parmentier.

Her switch to hardcourt tournaments then was not successful. First, she lost in the first round of Washington Open and failed to qualify at the Canadian Open, so she turned back to ITF Tour. There she advanced to two $25K finals, losing the first one and then won the second one. Between these two tournaments, she lost in the qualiying of the US Open. Right after that, she played at the carpet tournament - Tournoi de Québec, where she made her breakthrough. In the final, she defeated qualifier Lauren Davis in the straight-sets.^[6] This result raised her into the top 100 for the first time.^[7] A month later, she had another great performance on the WTA Tour. As a qualifier, she reached quarterfinal of the Linz Open after defeating two top 100 players - Kristýna Plíšková and Sorana Cîrstea. She then lost to Madison Keys. Two weeks later, she won the $100K Poitiers tournaments, after another defeat over Davis in the finals.^[8]

2017: First top 10 win, top 50 debut and highest-singles ranking[]

Dodin at the 2017 Washington Open

Dodin started the year with first-round losses in the qualifying draw at the Brisbane International and Sydney International. At the Australian Open, she had her chance to reach her first Grand Slam third round. She won the first set against Caroline Garcia in the second round but then Garcia made a turnaround. In late February, she advanced to the quarterfinal of the Hungarian Ladies Open. In the quarterfinal match against Tímea Babos, she did win the second set but lost in the third one. At the Sunshine Doubles - Indian Wells and Miami Open, she made her Premier Mandatory debut but lost in the first rounds of both tournaments. The third Premier Mandatory tournament of the year - Madrid Open, was successful for Dodin. As a qualifier she got to the main-draw and then had two important wins. She first defeated former top 10 player Andrea Petkovic and then made her first top 10 win over No. 5 Dominika Cibulková.^[9] In the third round, she lost to Kristina Mladenovic after winning only three games.^[10]

Dodin then started to struggle with form. First, she failed in the qualifying of the Premier 5 Italian Open, followed up then with second round of the Nuremberg Cup and the French Open. She then started her preparation for the grass season at the $100K Surbiton tournament, where she got to the semifinals. As a result, she reached her highest singles ranking, getting to World No. 46 on 12 June 2017. At the next two grass tournaments - Nottingam Open and $100K Ilkley tournament, she failed in the first round. The same happened at Wimbledon, losing to Lucie Šafářová in the first round. Promising comeback seems to happened at the following Citi Open where she switched from grass to hardcourt. There she won against two former top 10 players - Jelena Jankovic^[11] and Sara Errani, followed up then with a win over top 20 player Sabine Lisicki. During the second round match against Errani, Dodin saved three match points in the second round before she made a turnover.^[12] In the semifinal match, she started with a set win but then Ekaterina Makarova did a turnaround.^[13] By the end of year, she did not have any more significant results, losing in the early rounds of Premier 5 Canadian Open and Cincinnati Open, and the US Open. She finished the year with failing to defend her title at the Tournoi de Québec, with a walkover after the first round due to dizziness.^[14]

2018–21: Struggles with form, return to top 100[]

Dodin at the 2018 French Open

In the four following weeks there was no great progress for Dodin. In 2018, she first got the attention at the Miami Open. In the second round, she won the first set against world No. 1 Simona Halep before losing the next two.^[15] Her other results during the season include first rounds at the Australian Open, French Open as well as only the second round of qualiying at Wimbledon. In July, at the $100k Contrexéville tournament, she was forced to retire in the first round after the first set due to health problems.^[16] She could not play for the rest of the season.

Dodin returned in April 2019,^[17] due to a drop in the rankings, to the ITF Circuit. Her performances improved, and in June she reached the semifinals of the $25k+H Figueira da Foz tournament. Two weeks later, she advanced to the final of the $25k Corroios-Seixal tournament. Soon after, she reached another $25k level semifinal, followed up then with same-level final in Koksijde. In early October, she won title at the $25k+H Cherbourg-en-Cotentin tournament after defeating her compatriot Harmony Tan.^[18] It was her first ITF title after three years. She finished the year with further success on the ITF Circuit, including semifinal at the $80k ITF Poitiers, as well as two $25k semifinals and one final.

During the 2020 season, Dodin oscillated with results. In early February, as a qualifier, she advanced to the quarterfinals of Premier St. Petersburg Trophy. She defeated Viktória Kužmová^[19] and former top 10 player Johanna Konta^[20] in the first two rounds to get to the quarterfinal. In the quarterfinal match against Elena Rybakina, Dodin won the first set and had match points but then lost the other two sets.^[21] She followed up this with title at the $25k Mâcon tournament. The following week, she reached the quarterfinal of the Lyon Open where she lost to No. 5 Sofia Kenin.^[22] She then started to struggle, reaching only first rounds of tournaments such as Premier 5 Cincinnati Open and US Open as a Grand Slam tournament. She made progress in late October, after winning the $25k Reims tournament. She then came to Linz where as a qualifier she got to the quarterfinals. There she lost to Aryna Sabalenka after being forced to retire during the second set.^[23] After all these results she came close to returning to the top 100 for the first time since April 2018, but finished 2020 ranked No. 107.

Dodin struggled with form during the 2021 season. Her first WTA Tour-level win was in May at the Serbia Open where she defeated Kristýna Plíšková in the first round. In the following round she lost to Nadia Podoroska. She then had two first round losses at the Internationaux de Strasbourg and French Open. Her grass-court season started with playing at the Nottingham Open, where she beat former top-10 player CoCo Vandeweghe in the first round. At Wimbledon, she failed in the last stage of qualifying. In late July, she advanced to the semifinal of the Palermo International. In the semifinal match she lost to Elena-Gabriela Ruse in three sets.^[24] She followed up this with her first win at the WTA 1000 Canadian Open, defeating Karolína Muchová in the first round.^[25] In September, despite having not qualified for the main draw of the US Open, Dodin made her return to the top 100. Her last WTA Tour level win was at the Luxembourg Open, where she beat Anastasia Zakharova. Her last WTA tournament of the year was the WTA 500 Ostrava Open where she lost to Magda Linette in the opening round.^[26] She finished 2021 ranked No. 101.

Style of play[]

Dodin waiting for return

Océane Dodin is known for her ball-hitting power. This is an attribute which is common in her game. Her favorite streak consists of hitting hard from the baseline and concluding the point with a minimum of rallies (3 maximum), a risky game causing her to produce a high number of winning shots but also unforced errors during a match.^[27]

She declares herself more at ease on hardcourt than on clay, a surface less suited to her game. Her game is also suited to her limited endurance, the repetition of exchanges leading her to have side points.^[1] This style of play has been worked on since her early years in Villeneuve-d'Ascq targeting the glance and speed of execution.

In an interview for tennis.com, she said that she prefer her backhand over forehand, stating that backhand is something that makes her stronger. She also stated that her serve and forehand need improvement.^[28]

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.^[29]

Singles[]

Current after the 2021 Linz Open.

WTA career finals[]

Singles: 1 (1 title)[]

Result	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	Sep 2016	Tournoi de Québec, Canada	International	Carpet (i)	Lauren Davis	6–4, 6–3

ITF Circuit finals[]

Singles: 21 (12 titles, 9 runner–ups)[]

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Apr 2013	ITF Les Franqueses del Vallès, Spain	10,000	Hard	Tess Sugnaux	6–3, 6–3
Win	2–0	May 2014	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Hard	Alexa Guarachi	4–6, 6–4, 6–3
Win	3–0	Jun 2014	ITF Amarante, Portugal	10,000	Hard	Valeriya Strakhova	6–3, 6–2
Loss	3–1	Jul 2014	ITF Valladolid, Spain	10,000	Hard	Laura Pous Tió	6–4, 5–7, 2–6
Win	4–1	Sep 2014	Pro-Series Shrewsbury, UK	25,000	Hard (i)	Carina Witthöft	6–4, 6–3
Loss	4–2	Oct 2014	Internationaux Poitiers, France	100,000	Hard (i)	Tímea Babos	3–6, 6–4, 5–7
Win	5–2	Nov 2014	ITF Zawada, Poland	25,000	Carpet (i)	Jeļena Ostapenko	7–5, 6–4
Loss	5–3	Aug 2015	ITF Westende, Belgium	25,000	Hard	Mihaela Buzărnescu	1–6, 1–6
Win	6–3	Nov 2015	Pro-Series Shrewsbury, UK (2)	25,000	Hard (i)	Freya Christie	7–6(3), 7–5
Loss	6–4	Jul 2016	Grand Est Open, France	100,000	Clay	Pauline Parmentier	1–6, 1–6
Loss	6–5	Aug 2016	ITF Koksijde, Belgium	25,000	Clay	Richèl Hogenkamp	3–6, 6–4, 3–6
Win	7–5	Sep 2016	Barcelona Internacional, Spain	25,000	Clay	Ioana Loredana Roșca	6–3, 6–4
Win	8–5	Oct 2016	Internationaux Poitiers, France	100,000	Hard (i)	Lauren Davis	6–4, 6–2
Loss	8–6	Jul 2019	ITF Corroios, Portugal	25,000	Hard	Pemra Özgen	6–3, 4–6, 3–6
Loss	8–7	Aug 2019	ITF Koksijde, Belgium	25,000	Clay	Richèl Hogenkamp	6–4, 1–6, 4–6
Win	9–7	Oct 2019	ITF Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France	25,000+H	Hard (i)	Harmony Tan	6–4, 6–2
Loss	9–8	Nov 2019	ITF Saint-Étienne, France	25,000	Hard (i)	Ana Bogdan	w/o
Win	10–8	Mar 2020	ITF Mâcon, France	25,000	Hard (i)	Jessika Ponchet	3–6, 6–1, 6–3
Win	11–8	Oct 2020	ITF Reims, France	25,000	Hard (i)	Liudmila Samsonova	6–4, 6–2
Loss	11–9	Nov 2021	Open Nantes Atlantique, France	60,000	Clay	Anhelina Kalinina	6–7(4–7), 0–1 ret.
Win	12–9	Nov 2021	ITF Pétange, Luxembourg	25,000	Hard (i)		6–3, 6–1

Wins over top-10 players[]

#	Player	Rank	Event	Surface	Rd	Score
2017
1.	Dominika Cibulková	No. 5	Madrid Open, Spain	Clay	2R	6–2, 6–4

Notes[]

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