Maxime Cressy and Constant Lestienne will clash against each other in the quarter of the Tel Aviv Watergen Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 1:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. In the following lines 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 3 sets.
Maxime Cressy -> 1.64
Constant Lestienne -> 2.31
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Prediction and head to head Maxime Cressy vs. Constant Lestienne
This will be the 2nd time that Maxime Cressy and Constant Lestienne square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Lestienne (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they competed against each other, Lestienne won 6-3 6-0 in the 3rd round in the Maia Challenger back in 2019.
Maxime Cressy
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3-8 | 2-4 | 0-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 29-26 | 17-15 | 0-1 | 6-5 | 6-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 19-31 | 3-10 | 0-5 | 15-10 | 1-5 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 34-30 | 15-11 | 5-7 | 3-8 | 11-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 43-32 | 14-10 | 2-8 | 16-8 | 4-4 | 7-2 |
Ranked no. 34, the American reached the quarter after defeating Sebastian Korda 6-4 6-4.
In the 2nd round, The American had a good straight sets win against Korda (6-4 6-4). During the match, Cressy scored 65 points vs Korda’s 55. Maxime was exceptionally aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about the service games, Cressy blasted 14 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Maxime Cressy was quite efficient on serve to win 90% (27/30) of his 1st serve and 65% (17/26) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Maxime broke Korda twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Cressy has a solid win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 61% of his matches (194-124). 1-2 on indoor hard courts in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Cressy has an aggregate55-25 win-loss record in the last 6 years on indoor hard courts.
His best result of the year was conquering the title in Newport where he overcame Alexander Bublik in the final 2-6 6-3 7-6(3).
Cressy has an aggregate 32-24 win-loss record in 2022, 1-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Tel Aviv
Cressy has never competed in this tournament before.
Constant Lestienne
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14-18 | 7-11 | 0-1 | 7-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 28-31 | 17-15 | 0-3 | 8-9 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-29 | 22-12 | 0-5 | 7-6 | 3-6 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 51-27 | 25-6 | 4-7 | 18-11 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-20 | 10-3 | 4-9 | 10-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 68 (career-high), the French player got to the quarter after beating Adrian Mannarino 7-62 6-4 and Emil Ruusuvuori 6-4 6-2.
In the 2nd round, The French player had a good straight sets win against Ruusuvuori (6-4 6-2). During the match Lestienne scored 71 points vs Ruusuvuori’s 58. The French player was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.
About the serving games, Lestienne made 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Constant Lestienne lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Lestienne put 59% of his first serves in, winning 74% (25/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (12/24) on the 2nd serve. Constant broke Ruusuvuori 4 times after converting 33% of his break points (4/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Constant hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Lestienne’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Cherbourg Challenger,the Malaga Challenger,the Pozoblanco Challenger,the Segovia Challenger and the Vancouver Challenger.
Lestienne has an overall 47-22 win-loss record in 2022, 14-6 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Cressy | Lestienne |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 41 |
| Pts | 65-55 | 142-121 |
| Total Points | 120 | 263 |
| Winners | 27 | 55 |
| %Winners | 42% | 39% |
Cressy played 1 match while Lestienne competed in 2 matches. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Cressy has played 2 set(s) less than Lestienne (2 vs 4). Therefore, Cressy played 21 games less than Lestienne. Maxime scored 27 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Constant blasted 55 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Cressy | Lestienne |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 14 | 10 |
| Avg per match | 14 | 5 |
| 1st in | 30/56 | 69/132 |
| %1st in | 54% | 52% |
| 1st pts | 27/30 | 55/69 |
| %1st pts | 90% | 80% |
| 2nd pts | 17/26 | 34/63 |
| %2nd pts | 65% | 54% |
Cressy recorded 14 aces . Lestienne blasted 10 aces (5 per match). Cressy won 90% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Lestienne won 80% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 54% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Cressy | Lestienne |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 6 |
| Converted | 2/7 | 6/14 |
| % Converted | 29% | 43% |
| Conceded | 2 | 6 |
| Saved | 2 | 4 |
| % Saved | 100% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Cressy broke his opponent twice with a 29% conversion rate. Cressy very solid his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 2 break points. The French player broke his opponents 6 times with a 43% conversion rate. The French player conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Cressy | |||
| R2 Korda | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 65-55 | 65-55 | |
| Total points | 120 | 120 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 14 | 14 | |
| Double Faults | 7 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 30/56 | 30/56 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 27/30 | 27/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 90% | 90% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/26 | 17/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/7 | 2/7 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 29% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Lestienne | ||||
| R1 Mannarino | R2 Ruusuvuori | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-62 6-4 | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 18 | 41 | |
| pts | 71-63 | 71-58 | 142-121 | |
| Total points | 134 | 129 | 263 | |
| Winners | 30 | 25 | 55 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 35% | 39% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 7 | 3 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 35/74 | 34/58 | 69/132 | |
| % 1st in | 47% | 59% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 30/35 | 25/34 | 55/69 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 74% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 22/39 | 12/24 | 34/63 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 50% | 54% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 2 | 4 | 6 | |
| Converted | 2/2 | 4/12 | 6/14 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 33% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2/3 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | 134% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
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