Maxime Cressy and Elias Ymer will face off in the qualifications of the Astana Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:00 pm on COURT 1. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Maxime Cressy who should win in 3 sets.
Maxime Cressy -> 1.47
Elias Ymer -> 2.68
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Prediction and head to head Maxime Cressy vs. Elias Ymer
This will be the 2nd time that Maxime Cressy and Elias Ymer play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Ymer (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played each other, Ymer won 3-6 7-6(5) 6-4 in the 1st round in the Ostrava Challenger back in April 2021.
Maxime Cressy
Ranked no. 149 (career-high), Cressy got to the qualifications after beating Bernard Tomic 6-3 2-1 ret..
In the qualifications, Cressy had a good straight sets win against Tomic (6-3 2-1 ret.). During the match, Cressy scored 48 points vs Tomic’s 37. The American was extremely aggressive to blast 17 winners.
Regarding the service games, Cressy struck 11 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Maxime Cressy lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Cressy put 58% of his first serves in, winning 94% (17/18) of the points behind his 1st serve and 38% (5/13) on the 2nd serve. Maxime broke Tomic 3 times after converting 19% of his break points (3/16).
Cressy has a solid match record in the last 5 years having won 60% of his matches (139-91). 3-3 on indoor hard courts in 2021. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Cressy has a compiled41-18 win-loss record in the last 5 years on indoor hard courts.
Cressy has an aggregate 20-23 win-loss record in 2021, 3-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Nur-Sultan
Maxime has never competed in this tournament before.
Elias Ymer
Ranked no. 167, Ymer reached the qualifications after beating Grigoriy Lomakin 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, Elias had a good straight sets win against Lomakin (6-3 6-2). During the match Ymer scored 60 points vs Lomakin’s 34. Ymer was exceptionally aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Ymer fired 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Elias Ymer was pretty efficient on serve to win 82% (23/28) of his 1st serve and 78% (14/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Ymer broke Lomakin 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Elias’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Lyon Challenger.
Ymer has a composed 29-22 win-loss record in 2021, 1-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Nur-Sultan
The Swede has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Cressy | Ymer |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 12 | 17 |
| Pts | 48-37 | 60-34 |
| Total Points | 85 | 94 |
| Winners | 17 | 23 |
| %Winners | 35% | 38% |
Both Cressy and Ymer played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Cressy has played 1 set more than Ymer (3 vs 2). However, it’s interesting to notice that Cressy played 5 games less than Ymer. Cressy scored 17 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Ymer struck 23 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Cressy | Ymer |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 11 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 11 | 4 |
| 1st in | 18/31 | 28/46 |
| %1st in | 58% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 17/18 | 23/28 |
| %1st pts | 94% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 5/13 | 14/18 |
| %2nd pts | 38% | 78% |
Cressy managed to score 11 aces . Ymer blasted 4 aces . Cressy won 94% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 38% of the points. On the other side, Ymer won 82% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 78% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Cressy | Ymer |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 3 |
| Converted | 3/16 | 3/4 |
| % Converted | 19% | 75% |
| Conceded | 2 | 0 |
| Saved | 1 | 0 |
| % Saved | 50% | NAN% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Maxime broke his opponent 3 times with a 19% conversion rate. Cressy lost his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Ymer broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Ymer was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Cressy | |||
| Q1 Tomic | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 2-1 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 12 | 12 | |
| pts | 48-37 | 48-37 | |
| Total points | 85 | 85 | |
| Winners | 17 | 17 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 11 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 18/31 | 18/31 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 17/18 | 17/18 | |
| % 1st pts | 94% | 94% | |
| 2nd pts | 5/13 | 5/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 38% | 38% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/16 | 3/16 | |
| Converted % | 19% | 19% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Ymer | |||
| Q1 Lomakin | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 60-34 | 60-34 | |
| Total points | 94 | 94 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 28/46 | 28/46 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 23/28 | 23/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/18 | 14/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 78% | 78% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/4 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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