Maxime Cressy and Otto Virtanen will square off in the 2nd round of the Ismaning Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:00 pm on COURT 1. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Maxime Cressy who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Maxime Cressy is the pick to win this match.
Maxime Cressy -> 1.32
Otto Virtanen -> 3.38

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Prediction and head to head Maxime Cressy vs. Otto Virtanen

There is no head to head record between Maxime Cressy and Otto Virtanen since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Maxime Cressy

Ranked no. 141 (career-high), the American reached the 2nd round after beating Hiroki Moriya 6-3 7-5.

In the 1st round, The American had a good straight sets win against Moriya (6-3 7-5). During the match, Cressy scored 69 points vs Moriya’s 51. Cressy was extremely aggressive to blast 35 winners.

Regarding the service games, Cressy overwhelmed his opponent with 20 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Maxime Cressy was very effective on serve to win 90% (35/39) of his 1st serve and 53% (10/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Maxime broke Moriya twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).

Cressy has a solid record in the last 5 years having won 60% of his matches (143-94). 1-0 on carpet in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Cressy has an aggregate6-3 record in the last 5 years on carpet.

Maxime has a compiled 24-26 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on carpet (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Ismaning Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2019. See his history.

Ismaning Challenger
Cressy's Record

Otto Virtanen

Ranked no. 377, the Finn got to the 2nd round after beating Nicola Kuhn 6-2 2-6 6-1, Johannes Haerteis 4-6 6-3 6-3 and Max Hans Rehberg 7-5 6-2.

In the 1st round, Otto had a good straight sets win against Hans Rehberg (7-5 6-2). During the match Virtanen scored 65 points vs Hans Rehberg’s 53. The Finn was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.

About the serving games, Virtanen struck 11 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Otto Virtanen lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Virtanen put 60% of his first serves in, winning 68% (25/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 64% (16/25) on the 2nd serve. The Finn broke Hans Rehberg 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).

The Finn’s best result of the season was reaching the final in Sultan,M15 Brcko,M25 Muttenz and M25 Jonkoping.

Otto has a composed 40-17 win-loss record in 2021, 3-0 on carpet (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Ismaning Challenger

The Finn has never competed in this tournament before.

Ismaning Challenger
Virtanen's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

M.Cressy
O.Virtanen
1h:20
1h:20
Time on court​
!
3h:50
3h:50
1h:20
1h:20
Last match​
1h:02
1h:02
1
1
Match played
!
3
3
21
21
Games Played​
71
71
2
2
Set played​​
8
8
69
69
Total points​
234
234
69
69
Avg point​
78
78
35
35
Winners
93
93
35
35
Avg Winners​
31
31
51%
51%
Ratio winners
40%
40%
-- Serve --
20
20
Aces
36
36
!
20
20
Avg Aces
!
12
12
5
5
Double Faults
8
8
5
5
Avg Double Faults
2.7
2.7
35/39
35/39
1st won total​
93/122
93/122
!
90%
90%
1st won %
!
76%
76%
10/19
10/19
2nd won total​
48/83
48/83
53%
53%
2nd won %
58%
58%
-- Break Points --
2/6
2/6
BP won
12/24
12/24
2/6
2/6
Avg BP won
4/8
4/8
33%
33%
Won
50%
50%
0
0
Conceded
11
11
0
0
Avg Conceded
3.7
3.7
0
0
Broken
5
5
!
0
0
Avg Broken
1.7
1.7
0
0
Saved
6
6
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Cressy Virtanen
Match played 1 3
Tot Set 2 8
Tot Games 21 71
Pts 69-51 234-192
Total Points 120 426
Winners 35 93
%Winners 51% 40%

Cressy played 1 match while Virtanen competed in 3 matches. Virtanen started his run from the qualifications while Cressy had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Otto Virtanen dropped 2 sets while Maxime Cressy hasn’t conceded a set so far. Cressy has played 6 set(s) less than Virtanen (2 vs 8). Therefore, Cressy played 50 games less than Virtanen. Cressy scored 35 winners (51% of the total points). On the other side, Otto struck 93 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve Cressy Virtanen
Aces 20 36
Avg per match 20 12
1st in 39/58 122/205
%1st in 67% 60%
1st pts 35/39 93/122
%1st pts 90% 76%
2nd pts 10/19 48/83
%2nd pts 53% 58%

Cressy blasted 20 aces . Virtanen managed to score 36 aces (12 per match). Cressy won 90% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Virtanen won 76% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Cressy Virtanen
Won 2 12
Converted 2/6 12/24
% Converted 33% 50%
Conceded 0 11
Saved 0 6
% Saved NAN% 55%
Times Broken 0 5

Maxime broke his opponent twice with a 33% conversion rate. Maxime quite strong on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 0 break points. Virtanen broke his opponents 12 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Finn conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 55% of the break points that he conceded.

Cressy
R1
Moriya		 Total
Score 6-3 7-5
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 21 21
pts 69-51 69-51
Total points 120 120
Winners 35 35
%Winners 51% 51%
SERVE
Aces 20 20
Double Faults 5 5
1st in 39/58 39/58
% 1st in 67% 67%
1st pts 35/39 35/39
% 1st pts 90% 90%
2nd pts 10/19 10/19
% 2nd pts 53% 53%
Breaks
Won 2 2
Converted 2/6 2/6
Converted % 33% 33%
Conceded 0 0
Saved 0/0 0
Saved % – 0%
Times Broken 0 0
Virtanen
Q1
Kuhn		 Q3
Haerteis		 R1
Hans		 Total
Score 6-2 2-6 6-1 4-6 6-3 6-3 7-5 6-2
Tot Set 3 3 2 8
Tot Games 23 28 20 71
pts 76-63 93-76 65-53 234-192
Total points 139 169 118 426
Winners 31 37 25 93
%Winners 41% 40% 38% 40%
SERVE
Aces 11 14 11 36
Double Faults 1 3 4 8
1st in 41/71 44/72 37/62 122/205
% 1st in 58% 61% 60% 60%
1st pts 31/41 37/44 25/37 93/122
% 1st pts 76% 84% 68% 76%
2nd pts 16/30 16/28 16/25 48/83
% 2nd pts 53% 57% 64% 58%
Breaks
Won 4 4 4 12
Converted 4/6 4/11 4/7 12/24
Converted % 67% 36% 57% 50%
Conceded 4 4 3 11
Saved 2/4 2/4 2/3 6
Saved % 50% 50% 67% 167%
Times Broken 2 2 1 5

Tennis Scores in Ismaning Challenger

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