Nicolas Mahut gets the better of Maxime Cressy 3-6 7-5 6-1 in the qualifications in New York on Monday. Mahut will engage against Dominik Koepfer in the qualifications.

Score, report, and key facts

1st set.

Maxime won the set after he broke Nicolas in the 4th (3-1) game. Nicolas tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 5th (3-2) game. Notwithstanding, the French Player refused to give way before winning the set at the following breaker at 0.

2nd set.

The set was pretty even as both sides managed to hold the serve. The only difference was 1 break that Mahut conquered in the 12th game (7-5).

3rd set.

The French Player won the set after he broke Cressy in the 4th (3-1) and in the 6th (5-1) game. That break was sufficient for Nicolas to win the set as he didn’t drop his serve in the rest of the set.

The French Player was not able to offer any resistance in the last 4 games of the set (from 1-1 to 5-1).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Mahut scored 99 points vs. Cressy’s 89 points.

The French Player served very well to win 76% of the points (41/54) behind his first serve. Yet he won only 48% points (20/42) on his second serve. Mahut won this match even if he was battling in converting his break points because he converted only 36% (4/11). On the other side, Cressy had some problems in converting his break points as he converted only 29% of his break points (2/7). That was one of the key issues for his demise.

After this contest, the head to head between Mahut and Cressy is 1-0 for Nicolas.

Next Match: Nicolas Mahut vs. Dominik Koepfer – stats

Mahut will come up against Koepfer in the qualifications.

There is no head to head record between Nicolas Mahut and Dominik Koepfer since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

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