

What Time Will Alex Michelsen Play Against Maxime Cressy?
Michelsen and Cressy are on the Day 3 Schedule at Infosys Hall Of Fame Open 2024 on Wednesday 17 July 2024. Lets breakdown the career, past stats and recent form of these players and predict who will get the victory.
Who Will Win In This Head-To-Head?
Alex Michelsen and Maxime Cressy, both from the USA, have faced each other twice before in their careers, and their head-to-head series is tied 1-1. Their first encounter was in the grass court round of 32 at Newport in 2023, where Michelsen emerged victorious with a score of 6-7(5), 6-4, 7-5. The second match took place in the hard court round of 32 at Atlanta, with Cressy winning comfortably by a score of 6-3, 6-3.
Alex Michelsen, aged 19, is currently ranked 61 in the world with a career-high ranking of 55. In 2024, he has a win-loss record of 13-18, including three quarterfinal appearances. At Newport, Michelsen has a strong record of 4-1, with a runner-up finish in 2023. He became the youngest American man to reach the third round of a Grand Slam since Donald Young at the 2007 US Open when he advanced to the third round of the Australian Open. Michelsen achieved his first ATP Tour win at the 2023 Newport tournament and went on to reach his first quarterfinal, semifinal, and final. His victory over the 9th ranked player, Alex de Minaur, at the 2024 Los Cabos tournament is considered the biggest win of his career, although he narrowly missed out on reaching the semifinals by squandering three match points against the eventual champion, Jordan Thompson. In Challenger events, Michelsen has a record of 35-18, including two titles in 2023 at Chicago and Knoxville. In ITF Juniors, he reached a career-high ranking of No. 25 and won the Wimbledon boys’ doubles title in 2022 with his partner, Gorzny. Michelsen began playing tennis at the age of 3, practicing daily with his mother, who was a former college player, until the age of 15. This is the first time Michelsen is seeded in an ATP Tour event.
Maxime Cressy, aged 27, is currently ranked 180 in the world
Holger Rune
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Alex De Minaur
Alexander Zverev
Daniel Altmaier
Francisco Cerundolo
Alexander Shevchenko
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Ugo Humbert
Fabian Marozsan
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with a career-high ranking of 31. Although he was born in France, Cressy represents the USA. He broke into the Top 100 in January 2022 and reached the Top 50 in June 2022 before achieving his career-high ranking in August 2022. Cressy’s first ATP Tour title came at the 2022 Newport tournament, where he staged a comeback from a 6-2, 3-0 deficit to defeat Bublik. This victory came three years after making his debut as a 293rd-ranked wild card in the qualifying rounds of the 2019 Newport tournament. Cressy has also reached the finals at the 2022 Melbourne tournament as a qualifier, as well as the 2022 Eastbourne and 2023 Montpellier tournaments, where he defeated No. 9 ranked Holger Rune to equal his biggest career win. He qualified for the 2021 Australian Open and 2021 Wimbledon, reached the fourth round of the 2022 Australian Open, and defeated No. 9 ranked Felix Auger-Aliassime in the first round of the 2022 Wimbledon. In college tennis, Cressy played for UCLA from 2016-2019 and had an impressive senior season with a 26-0 doubles record, winning the 2019 NCAA doubles title with his partner, K. Smith, and finishing as the No. 1 doubles player and No. 17 singles player in the nation.
In this match, Michelsen aims to reach his fifth ATP Tour quarterfinal, with three of his previous four occurring in 2024 (Los Cabos, Geneva, Mallorca). It is also the first time he is seeded in an ATP Tour event. Cressy, on the other hand, hopes to achieve consecutive ATP Tour wins for the first time since reaching the final of the 2023 Montpellier tournament in February, where he was defeated by Sinner. He aims to reach his third quarterfinal at Newport in the past four editions and seek revenge for his loss to Michelsen in the first round of last year’s Newport tournament.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Michelsen will win.
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