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)
ResultW-LDateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss0–1Feb 2001Oklahoma City, U.S.Hard (i)Indonesia Wynne PrakusyaSouth Africa Amanda Coetzer United States Lori McNeil3–6, 6–2, 0–6
Win1–1Jul 2001Stanford Classic, U.S.HardIndonesia Wynne PrakusyaUnited States Nicole Arendt Netherlands Caroline Vis3–6, 6–3, 6–3
Loss1–2Sep 2001Bali, IndonesiaHardIndonesia Wynne PrakusyaAustralia Evie Dominikovic Thailand Tamarine Tanasugarn7–6(7–4), 2–6, 3–6
Loss1–3Oct 2001Japan OpenHardIndonesia Wynne PrakusyaSouth Africa Liezel Huber Australia Rachel McQuillan2–6, 0–6
Win2–3Sep 2002China OpenHardRussia Anna KournikovaJapan Ai Sugiyama Japan Rika Fujiwara7–5, 6–3
Win3–3Feb 2003Doha Open, QatarHardIndonesia Wynne PrakusyaVenezuela María Vento-Kabchi Indonesia Angelique Widjaja6–1, 6–3

ITF Circuit finals

Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Singles (2–1)

ResultNo.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss1.September 12, 1994Vancouver, CanadaHardCanada Sonya Jeyaseelan2–6, 4–6
Win2.July 21, 2001Mahwah, United StatesHardBulgaria Svetlana Krivencheva6–4, 7–6(5)
Win3.June 2, 2002Surbiton, United KingdomGrassUnited States Laura Granville4–6, 6–4, 6–4

Doubles (9–4)

ResultNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss1.September 23, 1999Santa Clara, United StatesHardUnited States Laxmi PoruriUnited States Meilen Tu United Kingdom Amanda Wainwright5–7, 2–6
Loss2.February 10, 1997Midland, United StatesHard (i)United States Lindsay Lee-WatersUnited States Angela Lettiere Japan Nana Smith3–6, 2–6
Win3.March 9, 1997Rockford, United StatesHardSweden Maria StrandlundUkraine Elena Brioukhovets France Noëlle van Lottum7–6, 6–3
Win4.June 30, 1997Queens, United StatesHardUnited States Lindsay Lee-WatersUnited States Keri Phebus China Fang Li6–2, 2–6, 6–3
Win5.September 22, 1997Newport Beach, United StatesHardUnited States Ginger Helgeson-NielsenUnited States Amanda Augustus Australia Amy Jensen6–3, 6–3
Loss6.April 16, 2000La Cañada, United StatesHardIndonesia Wynne PrakusyaUnited States Amanda Augustus United States Julie Scott3–6, 1–6
Win7.July 9, 2000Los Gatos, United StatesHardCanada Vanessa WebbUnited States Sandra Cacic Canada Renata Kolbovic6–4, 6–1
Win8.July 31, 2000Lexington, United StatesHardIndonesia Wynne PrakusyaUnited States Sandra Cacic Canada Renata Kolbovic6–2, 3–6, 6–2
Loss9.April 29, 2001Sarasota, United StatesClayUnited States Samantha ReevesUnited States Melissa Middleton India Nirupama Sanjeev4–6, 2–6
Win10.May 1, 2001Dothan, United StatesClayUnited States Marissa IrvinRussia Alina Jidkova Slovakia Gabriela Voleková6–0, 6–2
Win11.February 5, 2002Midland, United StatesHard (i)Ukraine Elena TatarkovaBulgaria Maria Geznenge Czech Republic Michaela Paštiková6–1, 6–3
Win12.July 22, 2003Lexington, United StatesHardUnited States Jessica LehnhoffAustralia Bryanne Stewart Australia Christina Wheeler6–3, 6–4
Win13.November 4, 2003Pittsburgh, United StatesHardUnited States Amy FrazierArgentina Gisela Dulko United States Meilen Tu3–6, 6–1, 6–2

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