Maxime Cressy stuns Grigor Dimitrov 7-5 7-6(9) in the semifinal in Melbourne on Saturday. Cressy will try to go further in the tournament when playing against Rafael Nadal in the final. The battle lasted 2 hours and 3 minutes. This will be his best result in this tournament. 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.
Maxime added to his prize money $ 21,145 after winning this match. He has won already $ 48,365 after this win. If he wins the next match, the American will add $ 39,005 to his earnings to get in total $ 87,370 in total.
Highlights Maxime Cressy vs. Grigor Dimitrov Melbourne Summer Set – Melbourne
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
2h:03
At the end of the match, Maxime scored 90 points vs. Grigor’s 83.
Cressy
The American served pretty well to win 77% of the points (55/71) behind his first serve. Anyhow he won only 44% points (12/27) on his second serve. Maxime blasted 17 aces and he committed 6 double faults. The American was well focused in converting 50% of the break points that he procured (1/2).
Dimitrov
On the other side, the Bulgarian wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/5). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this encounter, the head to head between Cressy and Dimitrov is 1-0 for Maxime.
Draw and next match H2H: Maxime Cressy vs. Rafael Nadal – stats
Cressy will compete against Nadal in the final.
There is no head to head record between Maxime Cressy and Rafael Nadal since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that the American conquered in the 12th game (7-5).
Maxime wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 12th game (6-5 15-40). On the other side, Maxime didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 61 points. The set was a huge battle since finally the American won just 3 more points than Dimitrov (32-29). The American conceded 8 points on serve (24-8). on the other side of the court, Grigor conceded 8 points on serve (21-8).
Both players were too good on serve during this set and the fight went to the breaker. Finally, the American won a thrilling breaker 11-9 after a huge fight with 20 points played.
Tiebreak
The American won 6 minibreaks in the 2nd (1-1), 10th (4-6), 11th (5-6), 15th (8-7), 19th (10-9) and 20th (11-9) point. On the other side, Dimitrov won 4 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 8th (5-3), 9th (6-3) and 16th (8-8) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 1-2, 2-2, 3-2, 3-3, 3-4, 3-5, 3-6, 4-6, 5-6, 6-6, 7-6, 7-7, 8-7, 8-8, 9-8, 9-9, 10-9, 11-9
Cressy wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 8th game (4-3 30-40). Cressy saved 4 set points when he was 3-5, 3-6, 4-6 and 5-6 down. On the other side, Grigor was unable to convert any of his 5 break points. He had 5 break points opportunities in the 9th (4-4 40-A) and the 11th game (5-5 30-40, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A).
They contested 112 points. Cressy won 4 more points than Grigor (58-54). Maxime surrendered 23 points on serve (42-23). In addition, on the other side, the Bulgarian conceded 16 points on serve (31-16).
Tennis Scores in Melbourne
- Rafael NadalNadal – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (6-4 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Maxime CressyCressy – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (7-5 7-69) – Stats and score progression
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