Donna Vekic held off Emma Raducanu's second-set fightback to earn her first WTA 500 crown with a straight-sets victory in the Queen's final.

Having stormed through the first set, Vekic was given a much sterner test in the second, but she prevailed 6-0 7-6 (8-6) to beat the home favourite in one hour and 48 minutes.

It took Vekic just 28 minutes to claim the first set, dropping only 13 points in the process as Raducanu struggled to get going and appeared hampered by a leg issue early on.

However, in just her third WTA final, Raducanu soon dug in to fight back.

She got the first break of the second set, converting on her third attempt to take a 3-1 lead and then went 5-2 up to put her on the brink of a decider.

Vekic, a lucky loser who profited from Marta Kostyuk's withdrawal through injury, then reeled off four straight games to gain the lead, having also defended two set points along the way.

Raducanu did fend off three match-point attempts to force the tie-break before fighting her way back to level terms again from 4-1 down.

The Croatian eventually got over the line on her fifth match point, though, to claim the fifth title of her career.

Meanwhile, at the Rosmalen Grass Court Championships, Robin Montgomery claimed her first WTA singles title after Barbora Krejcikova withdrew from the showpiece through illness.

Ranked 484th in the world, Montgomery is the lowest-ranked player to win a WTA title since 2023, when Elina Svitolina (ranked 508th) won in Strasbourg.

Vekic takes total advantage of Raducanu's slow start

Raducanu had to play a double-header on Saturday and came out for the semi-final heavily strapped up, and that injury seemingly caught up to her early on Sunday.

But that should not take away from a stellar performance from Vekic, who claimed her first title since 2024 and her first at WTA level.

After fending off Raducanu's comeback, she launched one of her own and eventually converted her fifth championship point to complete her journey from a second-round qualifying loss to a grass-court title.

She is the sixth lucky loser and the first since 2003 to win a WTA title.