MUNICH, April 19, 2023

On a rain-affected Wednesday at the BMW Open by American Express first up on Centre Court was the last first-round match of the ATP 250 clay-court tournament in Munich between Daniel Altmaier of Germany and Aslan Karatsev. Altmaier, who captured his seventh ATP Challenger career title at last week’s Sarasota Open in Florida and is competing in his first tournament of the season on European soil, won the opening set 6-4.

Karatsev fought back, secured the second set in the tie-break by the score of 7-2 and pushed the match the distance. Play was then suspended due to rain which started long delays at the MTTC Iphitos.

Pinpoint accuracy 📍 @AsKaratsev levels the match with a strong tiebreaker taking it to a third set 4-6 7-6(2).@BMWOpen23 | #bmwopenbyamex pic.twitter.com/wdf36AnAiv

— ATP Tour (@atptour) April 19, 2023

At 6 p.m., the decision was made to cancel all remaining matches, including the highly-awaited second-round encounter between local favourite and No. 3 seed Alexander Zverev and Christopher O’Connell of Australia. The 25-year-old German, BMW Open champion of 2017 and 2018, opened his clay-court campaign last week in Monte Carlo and reached the third round with wins over Alexander Bublik from Kazakhstan and Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut before losing to Daniil Medvedev of Russia.

Matches in Munich will resume Thursday at 10:30 a.m. local time.

GRAND SLAM THURSDAY 💯🔥

Check out the order of play for tomorrow Thu 20th of April!#bmwopenbyamex pic.twitter.com/snQNCVpaXU

— BMW Open by American Express (@BMWOpen23) April 19, 2023