Maxime Cressy
Maxime Cressy delivered a service that is impossible to master for the common man
Maxime Cressy who gas a career-high singles ranking of 59 in the world faced Christopher Eubanks on Stadium 4 at the Indian Wells Open.
The 24-year-old Cressy has hit 475 aces in his career. 235 out of them have come in 2022 and we haven’t even completed 3 months in the year. There was one particular ace however which he won’t be able to repeat in a long time.
Usually, aces occur when the server mixes accuracy and speed in the service in the right amounts. This time, however, the speed of the service was only a paltry 26 miles per hour.
Cressy threw the ball up in the air and went for his service but he didn’t time it to perfection. He connected with the ball a fraction earlier than he would have aimed for. The ball hit the top part of the racket and lobbed up over the net and kept dipping and swerving away from a haplessly running in Eubanks.
The moment had everyone in splits and the commentators stated they had never seen anything like it before. Cressy had a sheepish smile on his face as he had no idea how that service got him a point. He apologized to Eubanks and the game carried on.
That ace moment might have been funny but the match was very intense. Spectators enjoyed a thrilling match.
Cressy might have been the favorite going into the match and he won the first set as well but Eubanks recovered and restored parity in a never-ending second set. The third set was won by Eubanks with relative ease.
The match ended 5-7, 7-6 (10-8), 6-4 in favor of Eubanks. Cressy won 73 service points while Eubanks won 77 while both won an equal number of service games (16).
Eubanks saved 3 match points in the second set. This marked his second ATP 1000 main draw victory. He will take on eight-seeded Norwegian Casper Ruud in the Round of 64.
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