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Katherine Westbury

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Katherine Westbury
แคทเธอรีน เวสบุรี
Country (sports) New Zealand (2006–2012; 2014–current)
 Thailand (2012–2014)
ResidenceBurwood East, Victoria, Australia
Born (1993-03-14) 14 March 1993 (age 31)
Hamilton, New Zealand
Height1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
PlaysRight (two-handed both sides)
Prize money$21,293
Singles
Career record98–80
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 576 (3 October 2011)
Doubles
Career record8–9
Career titles1 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 696 (20 March 2023)
Team competitions
Fed Cup2–2 (singles 1–1)
Last updated on: 29 June 2024.

Katherine "Kat" Westbury (Thai: แคทเธอรีน เวสบุรี; born 14 March 1993) is an inactive 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. Aged 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

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2015

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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; they were beaten by Petra Martić and Anna Tatishvili in the first round.

2018

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Westbury played her first 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

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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.

2022

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Westbury played one Billie Jean King Cup (formerly Fed Cup) match for New Zealand in April but, more importantly, won her first professional title when partnering Destanee Aiava to win an ITF doubles title in Traralgon, Australia, at the end of November.

ITF Circuit finals

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Singles: 2 (runner-ups)

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W10 tournaments (0–2)
Result W–L Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Sep 2010 W10 Jakarta, Indonesia Hard Indonesia Sandy Gumulya 3–6, 0–6
Loss 0–2 Jul 2013 W10 Bangkok, Thailand Hard China Lu Jiajing 7–5, 3–6, 3–6

Doubles: 1 (title)

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Legend
W25 tournaments (1–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 Nov 2022 W25 Traralgon,
Australia
Hard Australia Destanee Aiava India Ankita Raina
Indonesia Priska Madelyn Nugroho
6–1, 4–6, [10–5]

Fed Cup participation

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Singles

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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 Lebanon Hard Lebanon 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 Indonesia Clay Indonesia Aldila Sutjiadi L 1–6, 1–6

Doubles

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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 Uzbekistan Hard Emily Fanning Uzbekistan Akgul Amanmuradova
Uzbekistan Yasmina Karimjanova
L 5–7, 1–6
P/O 9 February 2018 Pakistan Pakistan Pakistan Sarah Mahboob Khan
Pakistan Mahin Qureshi
W 6–3, 6–1
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