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Janet Lee

b. 1976

Taiwanese tennis player

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Born 1976. Janet Lee is an American and Taiwanese tennis player.

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)

ITF Circuit finals Legend $100,000 tournaments $75,000 tournaments $50,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $10,000 tournaments

Singles (2–1) ResultNo.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss 1. September 12, 1994 Vancouver, Canada Hard Sonya Jeyaseelan 2–6, 4–6Win 2. July 21, 2001 Mahwah, United States Hard Svetlana Krivencheva 6–4, 7–6(5)Win 3. June 2, 2002 Surbiton, United Kingdom Grass Laura Granville 4–6, 6–4, 6–4

Doubles (9–4) ResultNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 1. September 23, 1999 Santa Clara, United States Hard Laxmi Poruri Meilen Tu Amanda Wainwright 5–7, 2–6Loss 2. February 10, 1997 Midland, United States Hard (i) Lindsay Lee-Waters Angela Lettiere Nana Smith 3–6, 2–6Win 3. March 9, 1997 Rockford, United States Hard Maria Strandlund Elena Brioukhovets Noëlle van Lottum 7–6, 6–3Win 4. June 30, 1997 Queens, United States Hard Lindsay Lee-Waters Keri Phebus Fang Li 6–2, 2–6, 6–3Win 5. September 22, 1997 Newport Beach, United States Hard Ginger Helgeson-Nielsen Amanda Augustus Amy Jensen 6–3, 6–3Loss 6. April 16, 2000 La Cañada, United States Hard Wynne Prakusya Amanda Augustus Julie Scott 3–6, 1–6Win 7. July 9, 2000 Los Gatos, United States Hard Vanessa Webb Sandra Cacic Renata Kolbovic 6–4, 6–1Win 8. July 31, 2000 Lexington, United States Hard Wynne Prakusya Sandra Cacic Renata Kolbovic 6–2, 3–6, 6–2Loss 9. April 29, 2001 Sarasota, United States Clay Samantha Reeves Melissa Middleton Nirupama Sanjeev 4–6, 2–6Win 10. May 1, 2001 Dothan, United States Clay Marissa Irvin Alina Jidkova Gabriela Voleková 6–0, 6–2Win 11. Midland, United States Hard (i) Elena Tatarkova Maria Geznenge Michaela Paštiková 6–1, 6–3Win 12. July 22, 2003 Lexington, United States Hard Jessica Lehnhoff Bryanne Stewart Christina Wheeler 6–3, 6–4Win 13. November 4, 2003 Pittsburgh, United States Hard Amy Frazier Gisela Dulko Meilen Tu 3–6, 6–1, 6–2

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Taiwanese tennis player

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Janet Lee was born on 22 October 1976 in Lafayette.

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