Maxime Cressy stuns Holger Rune 7-5 6-7(3) 7-6(4) in the semifinal in Montpellier on Saturday. Cressy will face Jannik Sinner in the final. The battle lasted 2 hours and 39 minutes.
Maxime added to his prize money € 20,585 after winning this match. He has won already € 49,940 after this win. If he wins the next match, Maxime will add € 35,665 to his earnings to get in total € 85,605 in total.
Highlights Maxime Cressy vs. Holger Rune Open Sud de France – Montpellier
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Cressy scored 104 points vs. Rune’s 100.
Cressy
Cressy served exceptionally well to win 93% of the points (53/57) behind his first serve, and he won 60% points (26/43) on his second serve. The American struck 15 aces and he committed 10 double faults. Maxime was pretty good at converting 50% of the break points that he conquered (1/2).
Rune
On the other side, the Dane wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/0). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this encounter, the head to head between Cressy and Rune is 1-3 for Holger.
Draw and next match H2H: Maxime Cressy vs. Jannik Sinner – stats
Cressy will come up against Sinner in the final.
This will be the 2nd time that Maxime Cressy and Jannik Sinner face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Sinner (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on I.hard.
The last time that they played each other, Sinner won 6-4 6-710 6-1 in the 3rd round in Lexington Challenger back in 2019.
Live score progression and stats
There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that Maxime conquered in the 12th game (7-5).
Cressy was unable to convert any of the 2 conquered break points. He had 2 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 30-40) and the 12th game (6-5 30-40). On the other side, Maxime didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 64 points. The American was the one to win the set after conquering 8 points more than Holger (36-28). Maxime conceded 5 points on serve (24-5). on the other side of the net, Holger conceded 12 points on serve (23-12).
Both players were too good on serve during this set and the fight went to the breaker. Finally, Holger won the breaker at 7-3.
Tiebreak
The Dane won 4 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 4th (4-0), 9th (6-3) and 10th (7-3) point. On the other side, Cressy won 2 minibreaks in the 6th (1-5) and 7th (2-5) point.
Rune won the tiebreak 7-3 after he conquered a decisive 4-0 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 4-0, 4-1, 5-1, 5-2, 5-3, 6-3, 7-3
Neither player conceded a single break point during this set. In addition on the other side, Rune didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 67 points. Holger conquered the set after winning 9 more points than Cressy (38-29). The Dane was extremely solid on serve to concede just 3 points (27-3). In addition, on the other side, the American conceded 11 points on serve (26-11).
Likewise, throughout the set, the affair went straight to the tiebreak as there were no breaks. Finally, the American won the breaker at 7-4.
Tiebreak
Maxime won 3 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 9th (6-3) and 11th (7-4) point. On the other side, Rune won a minibreak in the 10th (4-6) point.
Maxime won the tiebreak 7-4 after he conquered a decisive 3-1 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 3-1, 3-2, 4-2, 5-2, 5-3, 6-3, 6-4, 7-4
Neither player conceded a single break point during this set. Moreover, on the other side, the American didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 73 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Cressy won just 3 more points than Holger (38-35). Maxime dropped 7 points on serve (28-7). on the other side of the net, Rune conceded 10 points on serve (28-10).
Tennis Scores in Montpellier
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Arthur FilsFils (7-5 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Maxime CressyCressy – Holger RuneRune (7-5 6-73 7-64) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
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