Maxime Cressy and Mark Lajal will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Guangzhou Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance 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 -> 1.38
Mark Lajal -> 2.89
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Prediction and head to head Maxime Cressy vs. Mark Lajal
There is no head to head record between Maxime Cressy and Mark Lajal since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Maxime Cressy
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-11 | 11-8 | 0-0 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 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 |
| 2020 | 19-17 | 3-5 | 2-4 | 14-7 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 178, the American got to the 2nd round after beating Hiroki Moriya 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round, Cressy had a good straight sets win against Moriya (6-3 6-3). During the match, Cressy scored 82 points vs Moriya’s 64. The American was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about the service games, Cressy blasted 10 aces and he was not very solid on his 2nd serve to score 14 double faults. Maxime Cressy lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Cressy put 51% of his first serves in, winning 81% (25/31) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (14/30) on the 2nd serve. Cressy broke Moriya 4 times after converting 25% of his break points (4/16).
Cressy has a winning match record in the last 8 years having won 57% of his matches (230-170). 9-6 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Cressy has an aggregate106-76 record in the last 8 years on hard.
Maxime’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Cuernavaca Challenger.
Maxime has an aggregate 15-9 win-loss record in 2024, 9-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger
Cressy has never competed in this tournament before.
Mark Lajal
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10-12 | 8-7 | 0-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-29 | 25-16 | 5-2 | 16-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-24 | 35-12 | 2-6 | 9-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 5-7 | 5-4 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 223, Mark got to the 2nd round after defeating Jie Cui 4-6 6-1 6-4.
In the 1st round against Cui, Mark recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-1 6-4). During the match Lajal scored 89 points vs Cui’s 75. Lajal was pretty aggressive to blast 43 winners.
About the serving games, Lajal struck 16 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Mark Lajal was extremely effective on serve to win 81% (43/53) of his 1st serve and 53% (16/30) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Mark broke Cui 3 times after converting 23% of his break points (3/13).
Mark’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Shenzhen 1 Challenger.
Lajal has an aggregate 10-10 win-loss record in 2024, 8-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Cressy | Lajal |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 27 |
| Pts | 82-64 | 89-75 |
| Total Points | 146 | 164 |
| Winners | 25 | 43 |
| %Winners | 30% | 48% |
Both Cressy and Lajal played 1 match. At the moment, Mark Lajal conceded 1 set while Maxime Cressy hasn’t lost a set so far. Cressy has played 1 set(s) less than Lajal (2 vs 3). Therefore, Cressy played 9 games less than Lajal. Cressy scored 25 winners (30% of the total points). On the other side, The Estonian bagged 43 winners (48%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Cressy | Lajal |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 10 | 16 |
| Avg per match | 10 | 16 |
| 1st in | 31/61 | 53/83 |
| %1st in | 51% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 25/31 | 43/53 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 14/30 | 16/30 |
| %2nd pts | 47% | 53% |
Cressy made 10 aces . Lajal made 16 aces . Cressy won 81% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Lajal won 81% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Cressy | Lajal |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/16 | 3/13 |
| % Converted | 25% | 23% |
| Conceded | 4 | 3 |
| Saved | 3 | 2 |
| % Saved | 75% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Maxime broke his opponent 4 times with a 25% conversion rate. Cressy lost his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Lajal broke his opponent 3 times with a 23% conversion rate. The Estonian conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Cressy | |||
| R1 Moriya |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 82-64 | 82-64 | |
| Total points | 146 | 146 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 30% | 30% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 10 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 14 | 14 | |
| 1st in | 31/61 | 31/61 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 25/31 | 25/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/30 | 14/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/16 | 4/16 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 25% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Lajal | |||
| R1 Cui |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 27 | 27 | |
| pts | 89-75 | 89-75 | |
| Total points | 164 | 164 | |
| Winners | 43 | 43 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 16 | 16 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 53/83 | 53/83 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 43/53 | 43/53 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/30 | 16/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/13 | 3/13 | |
| Converted % | 23% | 23% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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