US Clay Court Championships: Purcell, Altmaier match postponed due to weather

The first round match between Australian Max Purcell and German Daniel Altmaier was postponed to Thursday after weather forced cancellation of play the US Clay Court Championships at River Oaks Country Club in Houston.

Purcell won the first set 6-4 before play was halted and the match moved to Thursday.

The winner of the match will face No 8 seed Tomas Martin Etcheverry next.

Houston ATP250, other first-round matches (River Oaks Country Club, clay, USD 642.7350

• Tomas Machac (Q) beat Jack Sock (WC): 6-2, 6-4
• Marcos Giron (7) beat Emilio Gomez: 6-0, 6-2
• Tomas Martin Etcheverry beat Juan Manuel Cerundolo: 6-3, 6-4
• Cristian Garin beat Hugo Dellien: 6-3, 6-0
• Yannick Hanfmann (Q) beat Yosuke Watanuki (Q): 6-4, 3-6, 6-2
• J.J. Wolf (5) beat Jordan Thompson: 6-3, 6-2
• Steve Johnson (WC) beat Facundo Bagnis: 7-6 (5), 1-6, 6-1
• Jason Kubler (6) beat Fernando Verdasco (WC): 7-6 (7), 6-0
• Gijs Brouwer beat Aleksandar Kovacevic: 6-4, 6-4
• Denis Kudla beat Aleksandar Vukic (Q): 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
• Daniel Elahi Galan beat Zhizhen Zhang: 6-2, 6-3