Rain washed out much of Tuesday’s schedule at WTA Den Bosch and pushed the tournament’s second round into Wednesday, where one of the headline matchups pits Greet Minnen against Robin Montgomery — and the preview leans to Minnen in three sets.
The prediction is not fanciful. Montgomery arrived in Den Bosch on a streak of headlines after, ranked No. 484, she battled back from a set down to stun Daria Kasatkina in the first round. Montgomery is no mere flash in the grass: she reached the quarterfinals of this tournament in 2024 and carries a 21-7 career record on grass courts, according to Tennis Abstract.
Minnen brings a different kind of résumé. She is no stranger to grass and owns a marquee Top 10 victory — her lone Top 10 scalp came against Garbine Muguruza at Wimbledon in 2022 — and she has recent familiarity with Montgomery’s game, having beaten her in a Wimbledon qualifying match in 2023. That prior result, along with Minnen’s comfort on grass, is the central reason the preview favors her to prevail in three.
Tuesday evening’s order of play left only two second-round matches listed, a sign of how compressed the schedule became after the rain. With so little left undone, Wednesday’s slate immediately acquires weight: each match will do more than sort a line on the draw sheet, it will decide who moves closer to the later rounds under a tighter timetable.
The friction here is plain. The preview still leans to Minnen, but Montgomery is coming off an upset that proves she can lift her level on demand. A win over Kasatkina after dropping a set is the sort of momentum that can flip a predicted three-set loss into a second straight shock. The clash is therefore not simply experience versus ranking; it is resilience against pedigree, and both sides bring credible evidence.
Practical detail for viewers: the match is scheduled as part of the Den Bosch second round on Wednesday, one of the matches added to a compressed order of play after the rain delay. What to watch when the first serve goes up — Minnen’s ability to use past head-to-head knowledge and her grass-court comfort to control rallies, and Montgomery’s capacity to convert momentum from her Kasatkina win into aggressive, low-margin tennis on the surface that has given her a 21-7 return on past efforts.
The preview’s forecast is straightforward: Greet Minnen in three sets. That conclusion rests on Minnen’s proven grass form and the prior victory over Montgomery in 2023 qualifying. Still, Montgomery’s upset of Kasatkina and her documented success on grass mean the match will test the preview’s assumption as soon as the ball is struck on Wednesday — and the result will tell whether history or hot streak carries the day at Den Bosch.
