Janet Lee
Country (sports) | ![]() ![]() |
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Residence | Rancho Palos Verdes, California, United States |
Born | Lafayette, Indiana, United States | October 22, 1976
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
Turned pro | January 5, 1995 |
Retired | 2006 |
Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
Prize money | US$ 943,370 |
Singles | |
Career record | 278–274 |
Career titles | 0 WTA, 2 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 79 (April 6, 1998) |
Grand Slam singles results | |
Australian Open | 3R (1999) |
French Open | 1R (1997, 1998, 1999, 2002) |
Wimbledon | 2R (1998, 1999, 2001) |
US Open | 3R (2000) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 193–199 |
Career titles | 3 WTA, 9 ITF |
Highest ranking | 20 (February 17, 2003) |
Grand Slam doubles results | |
Australian Open | 3R (2005) |
French Open | 2R (1998, 2001) |
Wimbledon | 3R (2002) |
US Open | QF (2004) |
Janet Lee (Chinese: 李慧芝, born October 22, 1976) is a Taiwanese-American retired professional tennis player. She won three doubles titles during her career on the WTA Tour. She competed in all four Grand Slam tournaments in both singles and doubles. Her highest singles ranking was 79 and her highest doubles ranking was 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.
Early life
Her father is Shun-Yi Lee, a physicist, and her mother is Vanni Lee, a DP coordinator. Lee started playing tennis at age five. She graduated from high school in 1994 and decided to postpone college to pursue a professional tennis career.[citation needed]
Career
Lee competed in Women's Doubles Tennis for Chinese Taipei at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney with partner Weng Tzu-ting. They lost in the first round.
Playing women's doubles in the US Open with Peng Shuai of China, Lee reached the quarterfinals where they lost to Barbara Schett and Patty Schnyder, 6–2, 7–5. retired 2006.
WTA Tour finals
Doubles: 6 (3–3)
Legend: Before 2009 | Legend: Starting in 2009 |
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Grand Slam tournaments (0) | |
WTA Championships (0) | |
Tier I (0–1) | Premier Mandatory (0) |
Tier II (1–0) | Premier 5 (0) |
Tier III (1–3) | Premier (0) |
Tier IV & V (1–0) | International (0) |
Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partnering | Opponent | Score |
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Runner-up | 1. | February 19, 2001 | Oklahoma City, United States | Hard (i) | ![]() |
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3–6, 6–2, 0–6 |
Winner | 1. | July 23, 2001 | Stanford, United States | Hard | ![]() |
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3–6, 6–3, 6–3 |
Runner-up | 2. | September 24, 2001 | Bali, Indonesia | Hard | ![]() |
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7–6(7–4), 2–6, 3–6 |
Runner-up | 3. | October 1, 2001 | Tokyo, Japan | Hard | ![]() |
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2–6, 0–6 |
Winner | 2. | September 9, 2002 | Shanghai, China | Hard | ![]() |
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7–5, 6–3 |
Winner | 3. | February 10, 2003 | Doha, Qatar | Hard | ![]() |
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6–1, 6–3 |
References
External links
- Janet Lee at the Women's Tennis Association
- {{ITF profile}} template using deprecated numeric ID.
- Janet Lee at the Billie Jean King Cup
- Olympic tennis players of Taiwan
- Tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- American people of Chinese descent
- American sportspeople of Taiwanese descent
- American women of Taiwanese descent
- Taiwanese female tennis players
- Tennis people from California
- 1976 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Lafayette, Indiana
- Asian Games medalists in tennis
- Tennis players at the 1998 Asian Games
- Tennis players at the 2002 Asian Games
- American female tennis players
- Taiwanese-American tennis players
- Sportspeople of Chinese descent
- Universiade medalists in tennis
- American people of Taiwanese descent
- Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games
- Asian Games gold medalists for Chinese Taipei
- Asian Games bronze medalists for Chinese Taipei