Janet Lee (Chinese: 李慧芝, born October 22, 1976) is a Taiwanese-American retired tennis player. She won three doubles titles during her professional career on the WTA Tour. She competed in all four Grand Slam tournaments in both singles and doubles. Her career-high singles ranking is 79, and her best doubles ranking world No. 20.
Since retiring, she has been an assistant coach for the California State University, Fullerton(CSUF) women's tennis team.[1] She was a full-time undergraduate student at the university, majoring in Business with an emphasis in Accounting and Finance. After earning her B.A. at CSUF, she joined the professional services firm Deloitte & Touche, LLP.
Personal
Her father is Shun-Yi Lee, a physicist, and her mother is Vanni Lee, a DP coordinator. Lee graduated from high school in 1994 and decided to postpone college to pursue a professional tennis career.[citation needed] She started playing tennis at age five.
Career
Lee competed in tennis competitions for Chinese Taipei at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney women's doubles with partner Weng Tzu-ting. They lost in the first round.
Playing doubles at the 2004 US Open with Peng Shuai, Lee reached the quarterfinals where they lost to Barbara Schett and Patty Schnyder, 2–6, 5–7.
Lee retired from professional tennis in 2006.
WTA career finals
Doubles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runner-ups)
Legend |
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Tier I (0–0) |
Tier II (1–0) |
Tier III (1–3) |
Tier IV & V (1–0) |
Result | W-L | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Loss | 0–1 | Feb 2001 | Oklahoma City, U.S. | Hard (i) | ![]() |
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3–6, 6–2, 0–6 |
Win | 1–1 | Jul 2001 | Stanford Classic, U.S | Hard | ![]() |
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3–6, 6–3, 6–3 |
Loss | 1–2 | Sep 2001 | Bali, Indonesia | Hard | ![]() |
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7–6(7–4), 2–6, 3–6 |
Loss | 1–3 | Oct 2001 | Japan Open | Hard | ![]() |
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2–6, 0–6 |
Win | 2–3 | Sep 2002 | China Open | Hard | ![]() |
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7–5, 6–3 |
Win | 3–3 | Feb 2003 | Doha Open, Qatar | Hard | ![]() |
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6–1, 6–3 |
ITF Circuit finals
Legend |
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$100,000 tournaments |
$75,000 tournaments |
$50,000 tournaments |
$25,000 tournaments |
$10,000 tournaments |
Singles (2–1)
Result | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Loss | 1. | 12 September 1994 | Vancouver, Canada | Hard | ![]() |
2–6, 4-6 |
Win | 2. | 21 July 2001 | Mahwah, United States | Hard | ![]() |
6–4, 7–6(5) |
Win | 3. | 2 June 2002 | Surbiton, United Kingdom | Grass | ![]() |
4–6, 6–4, 6-4 |
Doubles (9–4)
Result | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Loss | 1. | 23 September 1999 | Santa Clara, United States | Hard | ![]() |
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5–7, 2–6 |
Loss | 2. | 10 February 1997 | Midland, United States | Hard (i) | ![]() |
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3–6, 2–6 |
Win | 3. | 9 March 1997 | Rockford, United States | Hard | ![]() |
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7–6, 6–3 |
Win | 4. | 30 June 1997 | Queens, United States | Hard | ![]() |
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6–2, 2–6, 6–3 |
Win | 5. | 22 September 1997 | Newport Beach, United States | Hard | ![]() |
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6–3, 6-3 |
Loss | 6. | 16 April 2000 | La Cañada, United States | Hard | ![]() |
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3–6, 1–6 |
Win | 7. | 9 July 2000 | Los Gatos, United States | Hard | ![]() |
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6–4, 6-1 |
Win | 8. | 31 July 2000 | Lexington, United States | Hard | ![]() |
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6–2, 3–6, 6–2 |
Loss | 9. | 29 April 2001 | Sarasota, United States | Clay | ![]() |
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4–6, 2–6 |
Win | 10. | 1 May 2001 | Dothan, United States | Clay | ![]() |
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6–0, 6–2 |
Win | 11. | 5 February 2002 | Midland, United States | Hard (i) | ![]() |
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6–1, 6–3 |
Win | 12. | 22 July 2003 | Lexington, United States | Hard | ![]() |
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6–3, 6-4 |
Win | 13. | 4 November 2003 | Pittsburgh, United States | Hard | ![]() |
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3–6, 6–1, 6-2 |
References
- ^ "California State University, Fullerton – Women's Tennis Assistant Coach profile". Archived from the original on October 7, 2008. Retrieved July 21, 2008.
External links
- Janet Lee at the Women's Tennis Association
- Janet Lee at the International Tennis Federation
- Janet Lee at the Billie Jean King Cup (archived)
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