“I lost every time,” he said. “I didn’t want to do it again”
Still, in all this netplay pessimism, there’s a dirty blonde curl mop that gives him an extra 1-2 inches, in addition to Cressy, all his 6’6. Every time he feels a chance, he comes behind the first serve, the second serve, and the opponent’s serve. He comes in after every short ball he sees, and even after his opponent has overtaken him at three consecutive points. He believes in serve and volley with the enthusiasm of cult members, even if it is one cult.
“This style can lead me to the top,” he said after the defeat of the first round at the French Open, and when he says “top,” he means first place. increase. After all, the loss was in clay. Clay has long been kryptonite for service and volleyers.
Since being a promising junior player in France, Cressy has been fighting traditional knowledge for 10 years in an attempt to master serve and volley. The French Tennis Federation basically told him to cut it out, as if he was a goofy while practicing. If that was the way he played, they didn’t want to have much to do with him. Cressy wasn’t upset.
“I liked it,” he said Tuesday night after knocking off Auger-Aliassime, the sixth-seeded Canadian and fashionable dark horse in Wimbledon, 6-7 (5). , 6-4, 7-6 (9), 7 -6 (5). He will play another American, Jack Sock, in the second round on Thursday. “If that’s what I like, I’d better do it and make it as efficient as possible.”
Cressy was trained at the Academy last year in high school and was hired to play at UCLA. There, the coach saw his potential in doubles. They were right, and he became a college doubles champion in 2019.
But Cressy stretches his sport before his sport lands with great serve, ability to move, inability to flap, and sprints, scully, bends, crouches, squats, and balls. Therefore, the pain in the rear end after the match on Tuesday.