Maxime Cressy and Stefan Kozlov will play each other in the 2nd round of the Cary Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 3:30 pm on COURT 15. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Stefan Kozlov who should win in 3 sets.
Stefan Kozlov -> 1.6
Maxime Cressy -> 2.34
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Prediction and head to head Maxime Cressy vs. Stefan Kozlov
This will be the 2nd time that Maxime Cressy and Stefan Kozlov clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Cressy (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Cressy won 7-5 6-1 in the qualifications in the Newport Beach Challenger back in 2019.
Maxime Cressy
Ranked no. 149 (career-high), Maxime reached the 2nd round after beating Noah Rubin 6-3 7-65.
In the 1st round, Cressy had a good straight sets win against Rubin (6-3 7-65). During the match, Cressy scored 80 points vs Rubin’s 63. Maxime was quite aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Talking about the service games, Cressy bagged 15 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Maxime Cressy was quite effective on serve to win 90% (35/39) of his 1st serve and 61% (14/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The American broke Rubin twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
Cressy has a solid record in the last 5 years having won 61% of his matches (132-86). 5-3 on hard in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Cressy has an overall70-42 record in the last 5 years on hard.
Maxime has a composed 13-18 win-loss record in 2021, 5-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cary Challenger
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
Stefan Kozlov
Ranked no. 344, Kozlov got to the 2nd round after defeating Donald Young 4-6 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round against Young, Kozlov recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-4 6-4). During the match Kozlov scored 97 points vs Young’s 89. The American was exceptionally aggressive to blast 41 winners.
About the serving games, Kozlov made 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Stefan Kozlov was very effective on serve to win 73% (41/56) of his 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 4 times. Stefan broke Young 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
The American’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in M15 Weston.
The American has an overall 14-6 win-loss record in 2021, 9-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cary Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2016. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Cressy | Kozlov |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 30 |
| Pts | 80-63 | 97-89 |
| Total Points | 143 | 186 |
| Winners | 35 | 41 |
| %Winners | 44% | 42% |
Both Cressy and Kozlov played 1 match. At the moment, Stefan Kozlov dropped 1 set while Maxime Cressy hasn’t dropped a set so far. Cressy has played 1 set(s) less than Kozlov (2 vs 3). Therefore, Cressy played 8 games less than Kozlov. Cressy scored 35 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, The American managed to score 41 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Cressy | Kozlov |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 15 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 15 | 7 |
| 1st in | 39/62 | 56/83 |
| %1st in | 63% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 35/39 | 41/56 |
| %1st pts | 90% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 14/23 | 14/27 |
| %2nd pts | 61% | 52% |
Cressy struck 15 aces . Kozlov managed to score 7 aces . Cressy won 90% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Kozlov won 73% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Cressy | Kozlov |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 5 |
| Converted | 2/6 | 5/11 |
| % Converted | 33% | 45% |
| Conceded | 1 | 7 |
| Saved | 0 | 3 |
| % Saved | 0% | 43% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 4 |
Cressy broke his opponent twice with a 33% conversion rate. Maxime dropped his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. The American broke his opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. Kozlov conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 43% of the break points that he conceded.
| Cressy | |||
| R1 Rubin | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 80-63 | 80-63 | |
| Total points | 143 | 143 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 15 | 15 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 39/62 | 39/62 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 35/39 | 35/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 90% | 90% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/23 | 14/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/6 | 2/6 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Kozlov | |||
| R1 Young | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 30 | 30 | |
| pts | 97-89 | 97-89 | |
| Total points | 186 | 186 | |
| Winners | 41 | 41 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 56/83 | 56/83 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 41/56 | 41/56 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/27 | 14/27 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 5/11 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 3/7 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 43% | 43% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
Tennis Scores in Cary Challenger
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski (6-3 3-2 ret.) – See score progression
- Sam RifficeRiffice – Tatsuma ItoIto (6-73 6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Jack SockSock – Ulises BlanchBlanch (2-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (6-4 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
- Maxime CressyCressy – Noah RubinRubin (6-3 7-65) – See score progression
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Petros ChrysochosChrysochos (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – James WardWard (7-61 6-0) – See score progression
- Aidan MchughMchugh – Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki (6-4 6-76 6-4) – See score progression
- Roberto Cid SuberviCid Subervi – Gonzalo VillanuevaVillanueva (3-6 7-5 6-1) – See score progression
- Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri – Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund (4-6 6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Christian HarrisonHarrison – Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Brayden SchnurSchnur – Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo (7-65 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Donald YoungYoung (4-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard – Lukas LackoLacko (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Govind NandaNanda – Roberto QuirozQuiroz (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Aidan MchughMchugh – Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki (6-4 6-7(6) 6-4) – See score progression
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Petros ChrysochosChrysochos (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Jack SockSock – Ulises BlanchBlanch (2-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – James WardWard (7-6(1) 6-0) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Christian HarrisonHarrison – Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Brayden SchnurSchnur – Govind NandaNanda (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Maxime CressyCressy (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Jack SockSock (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- William BlumbergBlumberg – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri – Roberto CidCid (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sam RifficeRiffice – Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran (0-0) – H2H and prediction