Career
Dorfman was ranked Number. 15 in singles in the United States in 1947, and Number. 3 in doubles in the United States. in 1948.
At the Cincinnati Masters, Dorfman reached the 1948 singles final, only to fall to Herbert "Buddy" Behrens in a match that lasted 64 games: 5–7, 9–11, 6–2, 8–6, 4–6.
To this day, it is the longest final in games in the history of the Cincinnati tournament, which started in 1899 and is now the oldest tournament played in its original city in the United States. Dorfman played his collegiate tennis at Yale University.
He graduated from that Ivy League school in 1947.
