Maxime Cressy and Alibek Kachmazov will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Shanghai Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative 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 -> 1.26
Alibek Kachmazov -> 3.6

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Prediction and head to head Maxime Cressy vs. Alibek Kachmazov

There is no head to head record between Maxime Cressy and Alibek Kachmazov since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Maxime Cressy

Ranked no. 161, the American got to the 2^nd round after beating Blake Mott 6-1 6-1.

In the 1^st round, The American had a good straight sets win against Mott (6-1 6-1). During the match, Cressy scored 57 points vs Mott’s 31. The American was quite aggressive to blast 18 winners.

Regarding the service games, Cressy blasted 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Maxime Cressy was exceptionally effective on serve to win 78% (18/23) of his 1st serve and 73% (11/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Maxime broke Mott 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).

Cressy has a winning match record in the last 8 years having won 57% of his matches (244-181). 17-11 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Cressy has an overall114-81 win-loss record in the last 8 years on hard.

Maxime’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Cuernavaca Challenger and the Guangzhou Challenger.

Cressy has a compiled 29-20 win-loss record in 2024, 17-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Shanghai Challenger

The American has never competed in this tournament before.

Alibek Kachmazov

Ranked no. 259, Kachmazov reached the 2^nd round after beating Nerman Fatic 6-3 7-6(7).

In the 1^st round, Alibek had a good straight sets win against Fatic (6-3 7-6⁷). During the match Kachmazov scored 78 points vs Fatic’s 66. Kachmazov was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.

About the serving games, Kachmazov recorded 10 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Alibek Kachmazov was quite effective on serve to win 86% (31/36) of his 1st serve and 54% (19/35) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Russian broke Fatic twice after converting 25% of his break points (2/8).

Alibek’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Saint Dizier.

The Russian has an overall 24-20 win-loss record in 2024, 11-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Cressy	Kachmazov
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	14	22
Pts	57-31	78-66
Total Points	88	144
Winners	18	31
%Winners	32%	40%

Both Cressy and Kachmazov played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Cressy and Kachmazov have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Cressy played 8 games less than Kachmazov. Cressy scored 18 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, Kachmazov managed to score 31 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Cressy	Kachmazov
Aces	8	10
Avg per match	8	10
1st in	23/38	36/71
%1st in	61%	51%
1st pts	18/23	31/36
%1st pts	78%	86%
2nd pts	11/15	19/35
%2nd pts	73%	54%

Cressy blasted 8 aces . Kachmazov made 10 aces . Cressy won 78% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 73% of the points. On the other side, Kachmazov won 86% 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	Kachmazov
Won	5	2
Converted	5/9	2/8
% Converted	56%	25%
Conceded	1	4
Saved	1	3
% Saved	100%	75%
Times Broken	0	1

Cressy broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Cressy had a solid display on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 1 break points. Kachmazov broke his opponent twice with a 25% conversion rate. The Russian conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.

Cressy
	R1 Mott	Total
Score	6-1 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	14	14
pts	57-31	57-31
Total points	88	88
Winners	18	18
%Winners	32%	32%
SERVE
Aces	8	8
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	23/38	23/38
% 1st in	61%	61%
1st pts	18/23	18/23
% 1st pts	78%	78%
2nd pts	11/15	11/15
% 2nd pts	73%	73%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/9	5/9
Converted %	56%	56%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	1/1	1
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Kachmazov
	R1 Fatic	Total
Score	6-3 7-67
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	22
pts	78-66	78-66
Total points	144	144
Winners	31	31
%Winners	40%	40%
SERVE
Aces	10	10
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	36/71	36/71
% 1st in	51%	51%
1st pts	31/36	31/36
% 1st pts	86%	86%
2nd pts	19/35	19/35
% 2nd pts	54%	54%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/8	2/8
Converted %	25%	25%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	3/4	3
Saved %	75%	75%
Times Broken	1	1

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