New Delhi, June 14 -- 'S-HERTOGENBOSCH, Netherlands - The trophy was already hers before she struck a single ball Sunday morning. Robin Montgomery, a 21-year-old Washington, D.C., native who had arrived in the Netherlands ranked 484th in the world and worked through qualifying just to reach the main draw, became the champion of the Libema Open when Barbora Krejcikova withdrew from the final with an upper respiratory infection - and in doing so, completed one of the most unlikely comeback arcs in recent WTA history.

a 21-year-old who lost nearly a year of her tennis life to a wrist injury, fell from No. 95 to a career-low No. 484, and then came back to the grass that has always suited her best - and won five matches in a week that no one ...