Queen's Club: First day of Aegon Championships delayed by rain
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Rain has disrupted the start of the Aegon Championships at Queen’s Club.
Play was scheduled to begin at 12:30 BST on Monday, but was put back until about 14:40 because of intermittent showers over London.
Richard Gasquet and American opponent Steve Johnson managed eight minutes of action before the covers came on, with the French fourth seed leading 2-0.
British number four Dan Evans’ is scheduled to play France’s Paul-Henri Mathieu after the opening match.
Top seed Andy Murray also faces a Frenchman – world number 49 Nicolas Mahut – in his first-round match on Tuesday.
Mahut, 34, goes into the tournament having claimed the fourth ATP title of his career at the Ricoh Open in the Netherlands.
The defending champion completed a rain-interrupted 6-4 6-4 victory over Luxembourg’s Gilles Muller on Monday.
Meanwhile, rising Austrian star Dominic Thiem became the first player to win titles on three different surfaces this year when he won the Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart.
The French Open semi-finalist won 6-7 (2-7) 6-4 6-4 against Germany’s Philipp Kohlschreiber after Sunday’s final had been stopped by rain before the first-set tie-break.
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