Wikipedia / Janet Lee
Wikipedia / Janet Lee
Janet Lee (, 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. 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) | 3–6, 6–2, 0–6 | ||
Win | 1–1 | Jul 2001 | Stanford Classic, U.S. | Hard | Wynne Prakusya | 3–6, 6–3, 6–3 | |
Loss | 1–2 | Sep 2001 | Bali, Indonesia | Hard | Wynne Prakusya | 7–6(7–4), 2–6, 3–6 | |
Loss | 1–3 | Oct 2001 | Hard | Wynne Prakusya | 2–6, 0–6 | ||
Win | 2–3 | Sep 2002 | Hard | 7–5, 6–3 | |||
Win | 3–3 | Feb 2003 | Doha Open, Qatar | Hard | Wynne Prakusya | 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 | 2–6, 4–6 | |
Win | 2. | July 21, 2001 | Mahwah, United States | Hard | 6–4, 7–6(5) | |
Win | 3. | June 2, 2002 | Surbiton, United Kingdom | Grass | 4–6, 6–4, 6–4 |
Doubles (9–4)
Result | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
Loss | 1. | September 23, 1999 | Santa Clara, United States | Hard | 5–7, 2–6 | ||
Loss | 2. | February 10, 1997 | Midland, United States | Hard (i) | 3–6, 2–6 | ||
Win | 3. | March 9, 1997 | Rockford, United States | Hard | 7–6, 6–3 | ||
Win | 4. | June 30, 1997 | Queens, United States | Hard | 6–2, 2–6, 6–3 | ||
Win | 5. | September 22, 1997 | Newport Beach, United States | Hard | 6–3, 6–3 | ||
Loss | 6. | April 16, 2000 | La Cañada, United States | Hard | 3–6, 1–6 | ||
Win | 7. | July 9, 2000 | Los Gatos, United States | Hard | 6–4, 6–1 | ||
Win | 8. | July 31, 2000 | Lexington, United States | Hard | 6–2, 3–6, 6–2 | ||
Loss | 9. | April 29, 2001 | Sarasota, United States | Clay | 4–6, 2–6 | ||
Win | 10. | May 1, 2001 | Dothan, United States | Clay | 6–0, 6–2 | ||
Win | 11. | Midland, United States | Hard (i) | 6–1, 6–3 | |||
Win | 12. | July 22, 2003 | Lexington, United States | Hard | 6–3, 6–4 | ||
Win | 13. | November 4, 2003 | Pittsburgh, United States | Hard | 3–6, 6–1, 6–2 |
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