Katherine Westbury

Katherine Westbury
แคทเธอรีน เวสบุรี

Country (sports)	New Zealand (2006–2012; 2014–current) Thailand (2012–2014)
Residence	Burwood East, Victoria, Australia
Born	(1993-03-14) 14 March 1993 Hamilton, New Zealand
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Plays	Right handed (two-handed both sides)
Prize money	$20,410
Singles
Career record	98–80
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 576 (3 October 2011)
Current ranking	No. 1308 (22 August 2022)
Doubles
Career record	3–7
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 1538 (8 November 2021)
Fed Cup	2–2 (singles 1–1)
Last updated on: 24 August 2022.

Katherine "Kat" Westbury (Thai: แคทเธอรีน เวสบุรี; born 14 March 1993) is a Thai-New Zealand tennis player.

She reached her best singles ranking of world No. 576 on 3 October 2011, and made her WTA Tour debut at the 2015 Auckland Open.

Westbury has two brothers. At age of three she moved to Bangkok, Thailand with her parents where she attended pre-school and primary school. Westbury began playing tennis at the age of 6 at the British Club in Bangkok. Her family returned to New Zealand two years later, settling in Christchurch, where she attended Burnside Primary School and Cobham Intermediate School, while also playing on the Canterbury Tennis Regional Squad under coach Glenn Wilson. In 2005 the family moved to Sydney, before further re-locating to Burwood East, Victoria, where she still resides.

Tennis career

2015

Having played doubles in just one previous ITF tournament, and that being six years earlier, Westbury was awarded a wildcard into the Auckland Open with Rosie Cheng, where they were beaten by Petra Martić and Anna Tatishvili in the first round.

2018

Westbury played her only Fed Cup matches for New Zealand in Bahrain in February 2018. She won her only singles rubber, and won one and lost one doubles rubber.

2020

Westbury resumed her professional career in 2020, starting at the reintroduced ITF tournament in Hamilton. She reached the semifinals of both singles and doubles, and followed that by reaching the second round of singles in Mildura before international tennis was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She resumed after the break with a series of tournaments in Monastir, Tunisia.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 2 (2 runner-ups)

$60,000 tournaments

$25,000 tournaments

$15,000 tournaments

$10,000 tournaments (0–2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	27 September 2010	ITF Jakarta, Indonesia	Hard	Sandy Gumulya	3–6, 0–6
Runner-up	2.	8 July 2013	ITF Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Lu Jiajing	7–5, 3–6, 3–6

Fed Cup participation

Singles

Edition	Stage	Date	Location	Against	Surface	Opponent	W/L	Score
2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II	R/R	7 February 2018	Bahrain	Lebanon	Hard	Nancy Karaky	W	6–0, 6–0
2022 Billie Jean King Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I	R/R	16 April 2022	Antalya, Turkey	Indonesia	Clay	Aldila Sutjiadi	L	1–6, 1–6

Doubles

Edition	Stage	Date	Location	Against	Surface	Partner	Opponents	W/L	Score
2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II	R/R	8 February 2018	Bahrain	Uzbekistan	Hard	Emily Fanning	Akgul Amanmuradova Yasmina Karimjanova	L	5–7, 1–6
	P/O	9 February 2018		Pakistan			Sarah Mahboob Khan Mahin Qureshi	W	6–3, 6–1