Maxime Cressy shocks Jaume Antoni Munar Clar 7-6(3) 6-4 in the quarter in Melbourne on Friday. Cressy will face off with Grigor Dimitrov in the semifinal. The battle lasted 2 hours and 25 minutes. This will be his most significant achievement in this competition. In the past, the best he could do in the past was reaching the 1st round in 2021. Here you can see his history at this event.
Cressy added to his prize money $ 11,730 after winning this match. He has won already $ 27,220 up to now in this event. If he wins the next match, Maxime will add $ 21,145 to his earnings to get in total $ 48,365.
Highlights Maxime Cressy vs. Jaume Antoni Munar Clar Melbourne Summer Set – Melbourne
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Cressy scored 90 points vs. Antoni Munar Clar’s 82.
Cressy
Cressy served extremely well to win 77% of the points (43/56) behind his first serve. Nonetheless he won only 41% points (13/32) on his second serve. Cressy struck 11 aces and he committed 10 double faults. Cressy won this match even if he was battling in converting his break points after he converted only 22% (2/9) of the procured opportunities.
Antoni Munar Clar
On the other side, Antoni Munar Clar was battling in converting his break points (only 25% – 1/4). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this match, the head to head between Cressy and Antoni Munar Clar is 1-0 for Maxime.
Draw and next match H2H: Maxime Cressy vs. Grigor Dimitrov – stats
Cressy will fight against Dimitrov in the semifinal.
There is no head to head record between Maxime Cressy and Grigor Dimitrov since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Cressy was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Jaume Antoni Munar Clar in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Yet, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Maxime to win the set as Antoni Munar Clar managed to break back in the 5th (2-3) game. Cressy kept his focus before winning the set at the tiebreak at 3.
Tiebreak
The American won 4 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0), 3rd (3-0), 6th (5-1) and 10th (7-3) point. On the other side, the Spaniard won 2 minibreaks in the 4th (1-3) and 8th (3-5) point.
Maxime won the tiebreak 7-3 after he conquered a decisive 3-1 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 3-1, 4-1, 5-1, 5-2, 5-3, 6-3, 7-3
Maxime converted 16% of his break points (1/6). He had 6 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 40-A), the 4th (3-0 30-40 and 40-A) and the 8th game (4-3 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A). Moreover, on the other side, the Spaniard converted 25% of his break points (1/4). He had his opportunities in the 5th (1-3 40-A and 40-A), the 7th (3-3 40-A) and the 9th game (4-4 40-A).
They contested 110 points. This set was so close that, The American won this set even if he scored the same amount of points as his opponent. The American conceded 27 points on serve (37-27). On the other side, Antoni Munar Clar conceded 18 points on serve (28-18).
The set was pretty even as both players managed to hold serve with the notable exception of 1 break that Maxime conquered in the 7th game (4-3) before ultimately winning the set (6-4).
Maxime converted 33% of his break points (1/3). He had 3 break points opportunities in the 7th (3-3 15-40 and 30-40) and the 9th game (5-3 40-A). On the other side, the American didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 62 points. Cressy was the one to win the set after conquering 8 points more than Antoni Munar Clar (35-27). Cressy surrendered 5 points on serve (20-5). on the other side of the court, Jaume conceded 15 points on serve (22-15).
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