There’s no secret about how Maxime Cressy desires to play his tennis.
Tall and slender with loads of punch in his racket, Cressy desires to overpower you together with his serve and hopes to steal a game or two when he’s on return.
Failing that, Cressy knows he can depend on being more experienced in tiebreaks than simply about any opponent on tour. Such is the character of his sort of tennis.
There is no such thing as a higher surface for Cressy’s serve-and-volley style than the grass.
Maxime Cressy vs. Daniel Galan prediction
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Cressy has played 90 tour-level matches in his profession to this point and he’s only got a winning record on one: Grass.
Cressy was originally slated to play Botic van de Zandschulp in Round 1 of ATP Eastbourne, but he caught a break when the Dutchman bowed out of the event and was replaced by Daniel Elahi Galan.
Cressy is a -250 favorite over Galan, who’s playing just his seventh-career tour-level match on grass.
Despite the gap in experience — Cressy is 11-8 all-time on grass and is coming off a 6-7, 6-7 loss to Holger Rune in London — Galan actually has played to an honest record on the lawn. Generally known as a clay-courter,
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Galan has a 3-3 record on the surface and has won two matches to qualify for the most important draw of this tournament. He won’t be a pushover.
Cressy’s style and Galan’s ability should make this a decent match that goes to a minimum of one tiebreaker, and that puts value on the Over 22.5 games.
THE PLAY: Cressy-Galan Over 23.5 games (-110, FanDuel)
