{"id":115357,"date":"2026-06-14T19:56:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T14:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=115357"},"modified":"2026-06-14T19:56:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T14:56:28","slug":"montgomery-wins-first-wta-title-as-krejcikova-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/montgomery-wins-first-wta-title-as-krejcikova-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Montgomery wins first WTA title as Krejcikova retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROSMALEN: US qualifier Robin Montgomery won her first WTA title when Czech rival Barbora Krejcikova retired before Sunday\u2019s final of the Wimbledon warm-up event due to illness.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of her maiden title, the 484th-ranked Montgomery will move up to 240th in the WTA rankings on Monday ahead of the second <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/indian-trailblazer-sania-mirza-bids-emotional-farewell-to-grand-slams\/\">Grand Slam<\/a> of the season on grass at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery, 21, had been ranked a career high 95th in June 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Krejcikova, who won the French Open in 2021 and Wimbledon in 2024, had been seeded eighth and was attempting to win her first title of the season in a first-time matchup against the American.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROSMALEN: US qualifier Robin Montgomery won her first WTA title when Czech rival Barbora Krejcikova retired before Sunday\u2019s final of the Wimbledon warm-up event due to illness. As a result of her maiden title, the 484th-ranked Montgomery will move up to 240th in the WTA rankings on Monday ahead of the second Grand Slam of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":115358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[42992,42991],"class_list":["post-115357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-krejcikova-retires","tag-montgomery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115359,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115357\/revisions\/115359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}