Janet Lee
Janet Lee 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 was 79 and her best doubles ranking was 20.
Since retiring, she has been an assistant coach for the California State University, Fullerton 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 (3–3)
Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
Runner-up | 1. | February 19, 2001 | Oklahoma City, United States | Hard | 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, 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 |