Serve and volley clinic – Cressy ousts No 6-seded Auger-Aliassime

American Maxime Cressy stunned Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, the No 6 seed, 6-7 (5), 6-4, 7-6 (9), 7-6 (5) to reach the second round of Wimbledon on No.3 Court on Tuesday evening.

Cressy, ranked No 45, will face American qualifier Jack Sock next.

The 25-year-old American was making his main draw debut at Wimbledon, and he used his throwback serve-and-volley style to keep the Canadian at bay.

“I’ve been working so hard and so many hours to get to that point, I had to prove a lot of people wrong, that serve-and-volley was not extinct,” Cressy said. “I had to stay resilient with the serve-and-volley and that’s what I did today – that’s what got me the win.”

Cressy hit 18 aces and won 95 of 134 points at net during the four hour and 10-minute contest. He also won 63 percent of his second-serve points, and 88 of 120 serve-and-volley points.

Auger-Aliassime is the highest seed to fall in the first round at Wimbledon. He was a quarter-finalist in 2021 at SW19.

London (Grand Slam), other first-round results (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, GBP 40.350.000, most recent results first):

• Taylor Harry Fritz (11) beat Lorenzo Musetti: 6-4, 6-4, 6-3
• Jason Murray Kubler (Q) beat Daniel Evans (28): 6-1, 6-4, 6-3
• Dennis Novak vs. Facundo Bagnis: tuesday
• Roberto Bautista Agut (17) beat Attila Balazs: 6-1, 6-0, 6-3
• Daniel Elahi Galan Riveros beat Dominik Koepfer: 6-4, 7-5, 7-6 (1)
• Alexander Ritschard vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas: tuesday
• Liam Broady vs. Lukas Klein: tuesday
• Denis Shapovalov vs. Arthur Rinderknech: tuesday
• Brandon Nakashima beat Nicola Kuhn (Q): 6-3, 6-7 (1), 6-3, 6-2
• Diego Schwartzman (12) beat Stefan Kozlov (LL): 6-3, 6-2, 6-2
• Emil Ruusuvuori beat Yoshihito Nishioka: 6-2, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4
• Alastair Gray (WC) beat Chun-Hsin Tseng: 6-3, 6-3, 7-6 (3)
• Botic van de Zandschulp (21) beat Feliciano López: 6-2, 6-3, 6-3
• Filip Krajinovic (26) beat Jiri Lehecka: 5-7, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5), 6-4
• Jordan Thompson beat Roberto Carballes-Baena: 6-4, 6-1, 6-1
• Rafael Nadal (2) beat Francisco Cerundolo: 6-4, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
• Lorenzo Sonego (27) beat Denis Kudla: 6-7 (6), 6-3, 7-5, 4-6, 6-2
• Jack Draper beat Zizou Bergs (WC): 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (4)
• Mackenzie McDonald beat Nuno Borges (LL): 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (3)
• Marcos Giron beat Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune (24): 6-3, 7-5, 6-4
• Jack Sock beat Bernabe Zapata Miralles (Q): 7-6 (6), 6-4, 6-4
• Hugo Gaston beat Alexei Popyrin: 6-2, 4-6, 0-6, 7-6 (3), 6-3
• Cristian Garin beat Elias Ymer (LL): 6-3, 7-5, 6-4
• Ricardas Berankis beat Sam Querrey: 6-4, 7-5, 6-3
• Benjamin Bonzi beat Zdenek Kolar (LL): 6-3, 6-3, 6-1
• Christian Harrison (Q) beat Jay Clarke (WC): 7-6 (3), 6-1, 7-6 (6)
• Jenson Brooksby (29) beat Mikhail Kukushkin (Q): 6-3, 6-2, 6-3
• Alex De Minaur (19) beat Hugo Dellien: 6-1, 6-3, 7-5
• Alex Molcan beat Pedro Martinez Portero: 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-1
• Mikael Ymer beat Daniel Altmaier: 6-3, 7-5, 7-5
• Reilly Opelka (15) beat Carlos Taberner: 7-6 (5), 6-4, 6-4
• Richard Gasquet beat João Sousa: 7-6 (7), 6-2, 4-6, 4-6, 6-3
• Nick Kyrgios beat Paul Jubb (WC): 3-6, 6-1, 7-5, 6-7 (3), 7-5
• David Goffin beat Radu Albot (Q): 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 (5)
• Hugo Grenier (LL) beat Marc-Andrea Huesler (Q): 6-3, 7-6 (7), 6-7 (5), 2-6, 6-4
• Steve Johnson beat Grigor Dimitrov (18): 4-6, 5-2 ret.
• Ryan Peniston (WC) beat Henri Laaksonen: 6-4, 6-3, 6-2
• Sebastian Baez (31) beat Taro Daniel: 6-4, 6-4, 7-5
• Oscar Otte (32) beat Peter Gojowczyk: 6-1, 6-2, 6-1
• Alexander Bublik beat Marton Fucsovics: 6-1, 6-2, 6-4
• Andy Murray beat James Duckworth: 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4
• Dusan Lajovic beat Pablo Carreno Busta (16): 3-6, 6-4, 0-0 ret.
• Tallon Griekspoor beat Fabio Fognini: 5-7, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4
• Miomir Kecmanovic (25) beat John Millman: 6-3, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Jannik Sinner (10) beat Stan Wawrinka (WC): 7-5, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
• Tim van Rijthoven (WC) beat Federico Delbonis: 7-6 (7), 6-1, 6-2
• Jiri Vesely beat Federico Coria: 6-3, 6-2, 7-6 (3)
• Alejandro Tabilo beat Laslo Djere: 7-6 (6), 6-2, 1-6, 4-6, 7-6 (11)
• Carlos Alcaraz (5) beat Jan-Lennard Struff: 4-6, 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4
• Thanasi Kokkinakis beat Kamil Majchrzak: 7-6 (5), 6-2, 7-5
• John Isner (20) beat Enzo Couacaud (Q): 6-7 (6), 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-3, 7-5
• Novak Djokovic (1) beat Soon Woo Kwon: 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Tommy Paul (30) beat Fernando Verdasco: 6-1, 6-2, 7-6 (4)
• Frances Tiafoe (23) beat Andrea Vavassori (Q): 6-4, 6-4, 6-4
• Alejandro Davidovich Fokina beat Hubert Hurkacz (7): 7-6 (4), 6-4, 5-7, 2-6, 7-6 (8)
• Adrian Mannarino beat Max Purcell (Q): 6-3, 7-6 (7), 4-6, 4-6, 6-4
• Jaume Munar beat Thiago Moura Monteiro: 6-2, 6-4, 7-5
• Cameron Norrie (9) beat Pablo Andujar: 6-0, 7-6 (3), 6-3
• Maximilian Marterer (Q) beat Aljaz Bedene: 4-6, 7-5, 6-4, 7-5
• Ugo Humbert beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry: 6-3, 3-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Casper Ruud (3) beat Albert Ramos Vinolas: 7-6 (1), 7-6 (9), 6-2
• Quentin Halys beat Benoit Paire: 4-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4
• Nikoloz Basilashvili (22) beat Lukas Rosol (Q): 6-7 (4), 7-6 (6), 3-6, 6-3, 6-3

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