Janet Lee

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Janet Lee
李慧芝

Country (sports)	Chinese Taipei United States
Residence	Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA
Born	(1976-10-22) October 22, 1976 Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Height
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. 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.

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
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
Runner-up	1.	February 19, 2001	Oklahoma City, United States	Hard (i)	Wynne Prakusya	Amanda Coetzer Lori McNeil	3–6, 6–2, 0–6
Winner	1.	July 23, 2001	Stanford, United States	Hard	Wynne Prakusya	Nicole Arendt Caroline Vis	3–6, 6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	2.	September 24, 2001	Bali, Indonesia	Hard	Wynne Prakusya	Evie Dominikovic Tamarine Tanasugarn	7–6(7–4), 2–6, 3–6
Runner-up	3.	October 1, 2001	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Wynne Prakusya	Liezel Huber Rachel McQuillan	2–6, 0–6
Winner	2.	September 9, 2002	Shanghai, China	Hard	Anna Kournikova	Ai Sugiyama Rika Fujiwara	7–5, 6–3
Winner	3.	February 10, 2003	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Wynne Prakusya	María Vento-Kabchi Angelique Widjaja	6–1, 6–3

External links

• Janet Lee at the Women's Tennis Association
• Janet Lee at the Fed Cup

• California State University, Fullerton – Women's Tennis Assistant Coach profile