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)

OutcomeNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Runner-up1.February 19, 2001Oklahoma City, United StatesHard Wynne Prakusya Amanda Coetzer
Lori McNeil
3–6, 6–2, 0–6
Winner1.July 23, 2001Stanford, United StatesHard Wynne Prakusya Nicole Arendt
Caroline Vis
3–6, 6–3, 6–3
Runner-up2.September 24, 2001Bali, IndonesiaHard Wynne Prakusya Evie Dominikovic
Tamarine Tanasugarn
7–6, 2–6, 3–6
Runner-up3.October 1, 2001Tokyo, JapanHard Wynne Prakusya Liezel Huber
Rachel McQuillan
2–6, 0–6
Winner2.September 9, 2002Shanghai, ChinaHard Anna Kournikova Ai Sugiyama
Rika Fujiwara
7–5, 6–3
Winner3.February 10, 2003Doha, QatarHard Wynne Prakusya María Vento-Kabchi
Angelique Widjaja
6–1, 6–3

ITF Finals

Singles (2–1)

Doubles (9–4)