Greet Minnen was projected to beat Robin Montgomery in the WTA Den Bosch second round Wednesday, a match that suddenly carried more weight after rain pushed much of Tuesday’s schedule back a day. The preview leaned toward Minnen in three sets, even with Montgomery coming in fresh off the biggest result of the opening round.
That opening-round result was hard to miss. Montgomery, ranked No. 484 in the world, stunned Daria Kasatkina by coming from a set down and added another line to a career that already includes a quarterfinal run at this event in 2024. She has also been steady on grass, with a 21-7 career record on the surface according to Tennis Abstract, which made the matchup with Minnen more than a simple ranking exercise.
Minnen, though, had reasons to be taken seriously on this surface. Her lone Top 10 win came against Garbine Muguruza at Wimbledon in 2022, and she had already beaten Montgomery in a Wimbledon qualifying match in 2023. That history mattered because the same two players were being asked to sort out a rematch on grass, where one swing or one service game can change the tone of an entire match.
The friction in the pairing was obvious enough: Montgomery arrived with the more eye-catching recent victory, but Minnen carried the better head-to-head result and was viewed as the player in the slightly stronger seasonal form. That left the second round set up as a test of whether Montgomery’s upset over Kasatkina was the start of a longer run, or whether Minnen’s grass-court experience would hold when the tournament resumed after the weather delay.
The next confirmed step was simple. If the rain stayed away, Minnen and Montgomery were scheduled to meet Wednesday in Den Bosch, with the preview already nudging the edge toward Minnen in three sets.
