Katherine "Kat" Westbury (Thai: แคทเธอรีน เวสบุรี; born 14 March 1993) is a Thai-New Zealand tennis player.
Country (sports) | ![]() ![]() |
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Residence | Burwood East, Victoria, Australia |
Born | (1993-03-14) 14 March 1993 (age 29) 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. |
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.
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.
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.
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.
$60,000 tournaments |
$25,000 tournaments |
$15,000 tournaments |
$10,000 tournaments (0–2) |
Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Runner-up | 1. | 27 September 2010 | ITF Jakarta, Indonesia | Hard | ![]() |
3–6, 0–6 |
Runner-up | 2. | 8 July 2013 | ITF Bangkok, Thailand | Hard | ![]() |
7–5, 3–6, 3–6 |
Edition | Stage | Date | Location | Against | Surface | Opponent | W/L | Score |
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2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II |
R/R | 7 February 2018 | Bahrain | ![]() |
Hard | ![]() |
W | 6–0, 6–0 |
2022 Billie Jean King Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I |
R/R | 16 April 2022 | Antalya, Turkey | ![]() |
Clay | ![]() |
L | 1–6, 1–6 |
Edition | Stage | Date | Location | Against | Surface | Partner | Opponents | W/L | Score |
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2018 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II |
R/R | 8 February 2018 | Bahrain | ![]() |
Hard | Emily Fanning | ![]() ![]() |
L | 5–7, 1–6 |
P/O | 9 February 2018 | ![]() |
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W | 6–3, 6–1 |
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