Introduction
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 Taiwan 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 |