Lee Duck-hee

Lee Duck-hee
Hangul	이덕희
Revised Romanization	I Deokhui
McCune–Reischauer	I Tŏkhŭi

Lee Duck-hee
Full name	Lee Duck-hee
Country (sports)	South Korea
Residence	Jecheon, South Korea
Born	29 May 1998 (age 25); Jecheon, South Korea
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Turned pro	2013
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$411,134
Singles
Career record	3–3
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 130 (10 April 2017)
Current ranking	No. 805 (4 April 2023)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q3 (2017, 2018)
French Open	Q3 (2018)
Wimbledon	Q1 (2017, 2018)
US Open	Q2 (2016, 2017)
Doubles
Career record	0–1
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 561 (27 May 2019)
Current ranking	No. 1216 (4 April 2023)
Medal record
Men's tennis
Representing South Korea
Asian Games
	Last updated on: 4 April 2023.

Lee Duck-hee (Korean: 이덕희; born 29 May 1998) is a South Korean professional 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 edit

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 the ANZ Bank, which was a sponsor for the Australian Open that year.^[2]

Professional career edit

He turned pro in 2013. He played his first Challenger match at age 14. In August 2019 he became the first deaf player to compete in and win a match in the main draw of an ATP tournament with a win over Henri Laaksonen at the Winston-Salem Open.^[3]

Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour finals edit

Singles: 20 (13–7) edit

Legend (singles)
ATP Challenger Tour (0–2)
ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour (13–5)

Titles by surface
Hard (12–7)
Clay (1–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Nov 2013	India F11, Raipur	Futures	Hard	Ramkumar Ramanathan	6–3, 6–7^(6–8), 4–6
Win	1–1	Jul 2014	Hong Kong F1, Hong Kong	Futures	Hard	Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul	6–1, 6–4
Loss	1–2	Jul 2014	Hong Kong F2, Hong Kong	Futures	Hard	Ruan Roelofse	4–6, 6–3, 0–2 ret.
Win	2–2	Nov 2014	Cambodia F2, Phnom Penh	Futures	Hard	Dekel Bar	7–6^(7–3), 6–4
Win	3–2	Apr 2015	Indonesia F2, Tegal	Futures	Hard	Shuichi Sekiguchi	6–1, 3–0 ret.
Win	4–2	Apr 2015	Indonesia F3, Jakarta	Futures	Hard	Christopher Rungkat	6–4, 6–3
Win	5–2	Jun 2015	Japan F6, Kashiwa	Futures	Hard	Toshihide Matsui	6–4, 6–2
Win	6–2	Aug 2015	China F6, Putian	Futures	Hard	Wu Di	6–2, 6–3
Win	7–2	Nov 2015	Thailand F8, Bangkok	Futures	Hard	Miķelis Lībietis	6–1, 6–4
Win	8–2	Mar 2016	Japan F3, Kōfu	Futures	Hard	Yuya Kibi	6–2, 6–3
Loss	8–3	Apr 2016	China F4, Zhangjiagang	Futures	Hard	Jimmy Wang	5–7, 3–6
Win	9–3	Mar 2016	Japan F6, Karuizawa	Futures	Clay	Yasutaka Uchiyama	7–6^(7–5), 6–3
Win	10–3	Jul 2016	China F10, Longyan	Futures	Hard	Li Zhe	6–4, 6–4
Loss	10–4	Sep 2016	Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei	Challenger	Hard	Chung Hyeon	4–6, 2–6
Win	11–4	Dec 2017	Indonesia F8, Jakarta	Futures	Hard	Prajnesh Gunneswaran	6–3, 4–6, 7–6^(8–6)
Loss	11–5	Jun 2019	Little Rock, USA	Challenger	Hard	Dudi Sela	1–6, 3–4 ret.
Win	12–5	Dec 2019	M15, Nonthaburi, Thailand	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Shintaro Imai	6–1, 6-4
Win	13–5	Feb 2022	M15, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Ben Patael	6–2, 1–6, 7-5
Loss	13–6	Dec 2023	M15, Yanagawa, Japan	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Sanhui Shin	3–6, 4–6
Loss	13–7	Mar 2024	M15, Nishitokyo, Japan	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Hikaru Shiraishi	4–6, 6–7^(7–9)

Doubles: 3 (0–3) edit

Legend (doubles)
ATP Challenger Tour (0–0)
ITF Futures Tour (0–3)

Titles by surface
Hard (0–3)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Jun 2013	Korea F6, Gimcheon	Futures	Hard	Chung Hyeon	Chung Hong Noh Sang-woo	1–6, 5–7
Loss	0–2	Apr 2014	Japan F4, Tsukuba	Futures	Hard	Finn Tearney	Sho Katayama Bumpei Sato	4–6, 4–6
Loss	0–3	Jun 2015	Japan F6, Kashiwa	Futures	Hard	Woo Chung-hyo	Yuya Kibi Takuto Niki	0–6, 3–6