Janet Lee
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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. 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 |
|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loss | 0–1 | Feb 2001 | Oklahoma City, U.S. | Hard (i) | Indonesia Wynne Prakusya | South Africa Amanda Coetzer United States Lori McNeil | 3–6, 6–2, 0–6 |
| Win | 1–1 | Jul 2001 | Stanford Classic, U.S. | Hard | Indonesia Wynne Prakusya | United States Nicole Arendt Netherlands Caroline Vis | 3–6, 6–3, 6–3 |
| Loss | 1–2 | Sep 2001 | Bali, Indonesia | Hard | Indonesia Wynne Prakusya | Australia Evie Dominikovic Thailand Tamarine Tanasugarn | 7–6(7–4), 2–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 1–3 | Oct 2001 | Japan Open | Hard | Indonesia Wynne Prakusya | South Africa Liezel Huber Australia Rachel McQuillan | 2–6, 0–6 |
| Win | 2–3 | Sep 2002 | China Open | Hard | Russia Anna Kournikova | Japan Ai Sugiyama Japan Rika Fujiwara | 7–5, 6–3 |
| Win | 3–3 | Feb 2003 | Doha Open, Qatar | Hard | Indonesia Wynne Prakusya | Venezuela María Vento-Kabchi Indonesia Angelique Widjaja | 6–1, 6–3 |
ITF Circuit finals
| Legend |
|---|
| $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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loss | 1. | September 12, 1994 | Vancouver, Canada | Hard | Canada Sonya Jeyaseelan | 2–6, 4–6 |
| Win | 2. | July 21, 2001 | Mahwah, United States | Hard | Bulgaria Svetlana Krivencheva | 6–4, 7–6(5) |
| Win | 3. | June 2, 2002 | Surbiton, United Kingdom | Grass | United States Laura Granville | 4–6, 6–4, 6–4 |
Doubles (9–4)
External links
- at the Women's Tennis Association
- at the International Tennis Federation
- at the Billie Jean King Cup (archived)