Lee Duck-hee

Lee Duck-hee
Full name Lee Duck-hee
Country (sports)  South Korea
Residence Jecheon, South Korea
Born (1998-05-29) 29 May 1998
Jecheon, South Korea
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Plays Right-handed (two handed-backhand)
Prize money $120,020
Singles
Career record 0–0
Career titles 0
0 Challenger, 10 Futures
Highest ranking No. 143 (21 November 2016)
Current ranking No. 143 (21 November 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open Q1 (2016)
French Open Q1 (2016)
Wimbledon
US Open Q2 (2016)
Doubles
Career record 0–1
Career titles 0
0 Challenger, 0 Futures
Highest ranking No. 697 (10 October 2016)
Current ranking No. 709 (3 November 2016)
Last updated on: 3 November 2016.
This is a Korean name; the family name is Lee.

Lee Duck-hee (이덕희; born 29 May 1998 in Jecheon) is a South Korean junior tennis player. He has won 10 titles on the ITF Junior Circuit as a teenager, including Grade 2 tournaments in Nanjing and Sarawak.

Personal life

Lee was born deaf. On the tennis court, he can hear vibrations, but must rely on hand gestures to pick up line calls and the umpire.[1] In 2015, his story was included during a campaign for an ANZ Bank, which was a sponsor for the Australian Open that year.[2]

Junior career

On the junior tour, Lee has been ranked as high as No. 3 in the ITF Junior Combined rankings.

Professional career

Early years

Lee made his debut on the ITF Futures tour at the age of 14, and began regularly playing events in Asia by the age of 15. Before turning 18, he already won 8 titles and cracked the Top 250 of the ATP rankings. After struggling early on at the Challenger level in 2015, he saw some increased success in 2016. Towards the end of the year, he reached two semi-finals and one final on the ATP Challenger Tour, the latter of which he lost to his compatriot Chung Hyeon, who was the top-ranked Korean player at the time. Lee finished 2016 ranked inside the Top 150 as the 3rd-highest ranked 18 year old (behind Americans Frances Tiafoe and Stefan Kozlov) and 11th-highest ranked player under 21.

Tour finals

Singles (8–4)

Legend
Grand Slam (0)
ATP Masters Series (0)
ATP Tour (0)
Challengers (0–1)
ITF Futures (8–3)
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Runner-up 1. 1 December 2013 India F11 (ITF18) Hard India Ramkumar Ramanathan 6–3, 6–7, 4–6
Winner 1. 13 July 2014 Hong Kong F1 (ITF18) Hard Thailand Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul 6–1, 6–4
Runner-up 2. 20 July 2014 Hong Kong F2 (ITF18) Hard South Africa Ruan Roelofse 4–6, 6–3, 0–2 (ret.)
Winner 2. 30 November 2014 Cambodia F2 (ITF18) Hard Israel Dekel Bar 7–6, 6–4
Winner 3. 12 April 2015 Indonesia F2 (ITF18) Hard Japan Shuichi Sekiguchi 6–1, 3–0 (ret.)
Winner 4. 19 April 2015 Indonesia F3 (ITF18) Hard Indonesia Christopher Rungkat 6–4, 6–3
Winner 5. 14 June 2015 Japan F6 (ITF18) Carpet Japan Toshihide Matsui 6–4, 6–2
Winner 6. 16 August 2015 China F13 (ITF27) Hard China Wu Di 6–2, 6–3
Winner 7. 29 November 2015 Thailand F8 (ITF27) Hard Latvia Mikelis Libietis 6–1, 6–4
Winner 8. 27 March 2016 Japan F3 (ITF18) Hard Japan Yuya Kibi 6–2, 6–3
Runner-up 3. 10 April 2016 China F4 (ITF27) Hard Chinese Taipei Jimmy Wang 5–7, 3–6
Runner-up 4. 25 September 2016 Kaohsiung, Taiwan Hard South Korea Hyeon Chung 4–6, 2–6

References


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