Lee Duck-hee

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Lee Duck-hee Tennis player
Nation: Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea
Birthday: May 29, 1998
Size: 175 cm
Weight: 75 kg
1st professional season: 2013
Playing hand: Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money: $ 325,183
singles
Career record: 2: 1
Highest ranking: 130 (April 10, 2017)
Current placement: 218
Double
Career record: 0: 1
Highest ranking: 600 (July 17, 2017)
Last update of the infobox:
December 31, 2018
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )
Korean spelling
Hangeul 이덕희
Hanja 李德熙
Revised
Romanization 		I Deokhui
McCune-
Reischauer 		I Tŏkhŭi

Lee Duck-hee (born May 29, 1998 in Jecheon ) is a South Korean tennis player .

Career

Lee played on the ITF Junior Tour from 2011 to 2015, where he achieved his highest place in March 2014 with 3rd place. In the Grand Slam tournaments for juniors, he achieved his best result with a quarter-finals at the US Open in 2014 and at the Australian Open in 2015 .

In his first year as a professional in 2013, he reached his first final at a tournament on the ITF Future Tour and ended the year within the Top 1000. In 2014, he was able to win the first two titles at this level and reach another final. In 2015 another five titles were added, which enabled him to take part in tournaments of the higher endowed ATP Challenger Tour and also to reach quarter-finals for the first time here in Anning , Seoul and Suzhou . As one of the youngest players, he was in the top 250 of the tennis world rankings at the end of 2015 .

In his most successful year to date, 2016, the Korean won three future titles, but from then on played most of the time at Challengers. Here he made four semi-finals. In Kaohsiung he also made his first finals. In the final he lost to Chung Hyeon , his fellow countryman who was almost the same age. In the semifinals he had defeated his first top 100 player with Yūichi Sugita . This year Lee was also appointed to the South Korean Davis Cup team for the first time . In 2017, Lee was almost in the main draw of the Australian Open 2017 , but lost in the decisive qualifying round against Alexander Bublik in three sets. In the following period he reached his previous career high with rank 130 in April, but only made it past the quarter-finals at Challengers - semifinals in Seoul - once , which meant that he lost places and had to play futures again at the end of the year. In 2018, Lee failed again in the last round of qualifying in Melbourne, this time to Ruben Bemelmans , as well as in the tie-break of the third set against Jaume Munar in Paris. At Challengers he played more consistently again and finished the year in 203rd place. In the Davis Cup, he saved his team from relegation to Continental Group II with two individual wins.

particularities

Lee Duck-hee has been deaf since he was born and therefore depends on the umpires' hand signals for tennis . Because he cannot hear the blows of his opponents, it is often claimed that as a deaf person he is at a disadvantage compared to the other players. Lee Duck-hee points out that although I can't hear the ball, “I can feel it”. The silence doesn't distract him as easily as other players.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cécile Klotzbach: Deaf South Korean Duck-Hee Lee (18) conquered the world rankings. In: blick.cc. November 30, 2016, accessed January 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Silent triumph . In: The daily newspaper . August 21, 2019, p. 19.
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Lee is the family name here, Duck-hee is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Lee, Duck-hee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Jecheon , South Korea