This is largely due to his performance on the Challenger tour, where he has competed in five finals this year and won three of them. Meanwhile, Lestienne is a classic example of a late bloomer because it took him until he was past 30 years old before he attained his highest singles ranking. With no need for a second invitation, Cressy served for the match and finished it with a love game to secure the victory. Despite not proving victorious this time over his fourth-round slam opponent, he knows that his time is coming soon and may be just around the corner at the next tournament.In the first game of the second set, Korda had three break points saved however, when another one presented itself eight games later, he was not as fortunate. "My game style can beat anyone, so starting this year, I'm very confident," Cressy shook his head saying. At 40-0 in the Russian's favor, he closed out the match with a winning corner shot that Cressy had not predicted would ever go in.
The gas had to be accelerated on the Russian's part to win this over three-hour match and he did exactly that. Maxime Cressy got close to pushing another tiebreak and Medvedev felt that he had to take his opportunities trailing only a game with a 5-6 game score. Medvedev gained composure enough to blast passing shots back and forth to Cressy as though it was practice time instead of real-time match play. Cressy time and again tried to rattle the Russian's emotions with his fast volleying. I couldn't return them," Medvedev had to admit on Cressy's craftiness.īut the fourth and deciding set Medvedev picked himself up off the court from therapy and showed what a number 2 player can manufacture when pushed to perform.
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"Every time I had break point he would have second series and hit the line. He got winning points on his serves which irked the tall Russian, especially in the deciding set. The third set gave Cressy that light at the end of a losing tunnel as he had said "I believe anything's possible.I have that self-belief." Cressy kind of put the Russian through his test after being passed on court, hard volleyed and out tricked by Medvedev throughout two straight sets.Ĭressy has strategies and has shown them on Grigor Dimitrov in the Melbourne Summer games and on John Isner in the opening round here at the Australian Open. "I've played harder matches but this was long. Things started looking up for the 24-year-old former UCLA/NCAA titleholder. A trainer was called on court for the Russian's ailing right hip during that time and later a physio was needed. The serve and volleyer even pushed Medvedev into some physical discomforts that were unpredicted. He earned his third set win by slicing, volleying and pulling the Russian all over the court to win single-handedly. He proved consistent with the next set, a tiebreak but the third proved the charm for Maxime Cressy who relished having a tiebreak win on the scoreboard. Medvedev proved in the first set his feet were nearly sizzling as he won the premier set 6-2 against his lanky opponent.
Four was probably Maxime Cressy's unlucky number as he scrambled, then gained composure and then was outfoxed by his Russian opponent in the gruelling sets of 6-2, 7-6, 6-7, 7-5.Īt the opening, both players were trying to get their feet warm as to the strategies on breaking down one another's game in their first meet. But his serve-and-volley style proved half the result as he lost to no.Ģ Daniil Medvedev in the fourth round at Melbourne. "To stay in the present is very effective," 70th ranked Maxime Cressy had gotten philosophical on his mode of digging for victories on the competitive court.
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