Gabriela Dabrowski soars to new career-high doubles ranking of No. 2 after Dubai title

Gabriela Dabrowski has been through a lot over the last few years—but she’s battled through all of it, and now she’s at the new highest ranking of her career.

The Canadian soars from No. 10 to a new career-high of No. 2 on the WTA doubles rankings today—surpassing her previous high of No. 3—following her triumph at the WTA 1000 event in Dubai alongside Brazil’s Luisa Stefani.

After the pair beat Laura Siegemund and Vera Zvonareva in the final, 6-1, 6-3, Dabrowski dedicated the win to someone very special in her on-court interview.

“This week means a lot,” she said. “I’d actually like to just take a second and dedicate this win to my best friend’s father—his name is Mike Smith, and he has been battling cancer for 12 years now, and he is still fighting, and I’ve been thinking about him every single day this week and weeks previous.

“He’s been an inspiration for me, so this one’s to Mike.”

Dabrowski knows what it’s like to battle cancer—in 2024 she was diagnosed with breast cancer, taking a three-month hiatus from the tour in the spring and undergoing multiple surgeries, as well as further treatments.

Thankfully, it was caught early and she won that battle.

“I know this will come as a shock to many, but I am okay and I will be okay,” she wrote on Instagram later that year when she announced the news.

“Early detection saves lives. I can wholeheartedly agree with this.”

Since returning to the tour during the grass-court season in 2024, Dabrowski has won six WTA doubles titles, bringing her career total to 21. That haul includes two Grand Slam women’s doubles titles, at the US Open in 2023 and 2025 alongside Erin Routliffe, a WTA Finals title in 2024 (also with Routliffe) and six WTA 1000 titles, including her latest triumph in Dubai with Stefani.

She also has two Grand Slam mixed doubles titles, winning 2017 Roland Garros with Rohan Bopanna and the 2018 Australian Open with Mate Pavic.

And now, the No. 2 ranking—with No. 1 potentially in her sights. She’s just over 1,500 points behind current No. 1 Elise Mertens, 8,483 to 6,938, but the Canadian is only defending one title in the next six months, at the WTA 500 in Stuttgart. The Belgian is only defending one title in that span, too, but it’s at Wimbledon—she’ll also defend finals points at back-to-back WTA 1000s in Madrid and Rome.

There’s good news for Dabrowski’s partner today, too, as Stefani rises from No. 14 to No. 10, her first time in the Top 10 since the two weeks of Roland Garros in 2024. She reached a career-high doubles ranking of No. 9 in 2021.

The Brazilian captured the 14th WTA doubles title of her career with Dabrowski in Dubai this past week, and her fourth at the WTA 1000 level.