Janet Lee ( zh, 李慧芝, born October 22, 1976) is a Taiwanese-American retired

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player. She won three doubles titles during her professional career on the

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. 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

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(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

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& 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

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at the

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in Sydney women's doubles with partner Weng Tzu-ting. They lost in the first round. Playing doubles at the 2004 US Open with

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, Lee reached the quarterfinals where they lost to Barbara Schett and

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, 2–6, 5–7. Lee retired from professional tennis in 2006.

WTA career finals

Doubles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runner-ups)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles (2–1)

Doubles (9–4)

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