NEWPORT, R. A. (AP) — Fourth-seeded Maxime Cressy ended John Isner’s 10-game winning streak on the Newport grass courts by beating his fellow American 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 on Saturday to qualify for the final Hall of Fame. Open.
Cressy will face No. 3 seed Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan. Bublik beat Australia’s Jason Kubler 6-3, 6-2 in the semi-final.
The matches were played before former Australian player Lleyton Hewitt was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in a rite on the sidelines. Hewitt was chosen for the Salon for the elegance of 2021, but due to restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. , could not for last year’s rite. There was no elegance chosen for 2022.
In a first-round Australian Open rematch when Cressy bounced back after two to beat the four-time Champion Newport, Cressy broke twice in the first set.
“Personally, I like to do wonderful service,” he said. I like it when the ball temporarily reaches my racket. “
But the strangest point came when Cressy broke to go 5-3 in the final set.
Cressy hit a balloon, Isner, 37, loaded the net, but the ball bounced off Cressy’s side before isner, 6 feet 10, could get the last point of the game.
Isner, the seed of the moment, seemed surprised by the result and there was a long murmur in the stands.
“It was definitely a weird feeling,” Cressy said. I didn’t really know that I broke it at the time, that the ball was coming back from my side. I thought, ‘Did I break?’ When I heard that was the case, I couldn’t do it. It was hard to move on and be really focused.
Cressy fell 15-40 in the final game before the end of the game for an hour and 51 minutes when Isner slightly recovered his racket with a forehand back as the ball bounced.
Cressy will earn the first ATP name of his career after entering the week at no. 41 in the world.
“My purpose for this season was to be in the top 10 most sensible,” he said. “In fact, I think momentum takes me that way. “
In the other semi-final, Bublik, 25, a Newport finalist in 2019, is for the moment an ATP career name after winning Montpellier this year.
“I think it’s wonderful to play in any ATP final,” he said. “It’s smart for the story, for your own career. “