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Maxime Cressy

Maxime Cressy (born May 8, 1997) is a French-American inactive professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 31 by the ATP, achieved on 8 August 2022. He has been ranked as high as world No. 64 in doubles, achieved on 8 May 2023. Cressy has won one title on the ATP Tour and four singles titles and two doubles titles on the ATP Challenger Tour. Before 2018, he played for his country of birth, France.

Maxime Cressy was born the youngest of three boys in Paris to a French father, Gérard, and an American mother, Leslie. She is a former university volleyball player at the University of Southern California and helped the team win two NCAA championships. He has two brothers.

From 2009 to 2013, he trained at the Centre de ressources, d'expertise et de performance sportives de Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur [fr] in Saint-Raphaël, on the French Riviera, one of the most prominent training centers for tennis players in France. In 2014, he moved to the United States, where he joined a Californian academy. He did school at home at the French National Centre for Distance Education (CNED), where he had a French Baccalauréat.

He made his debut in 2016 and won the Tallahassee Futures in December 2018. The following week he began representing the United States.

On May 25, 2019, he and Keegan Smith won the 2019 NCAA tennis doubles championship at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Cressy made his Grand Slam main draw debut at the 2020 US Open as a wildcard entrant where he reached the second round after defeating Jozef Kovalík. He lost in the second round to fourth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas.

He qualified for the 2021 Australian Open and reached the second round by defeating Taro Daniel. However, he lost in the second round to sixth seed Alexander Zverev.

After qualifying for the main draw at the 2021 US Open, Cressy won a five-set match with a fifth set tiebreak against ninth seed and two-time US Open semifinalist Pablo Carreño Busta, after coming back from two sets to love down to win in a tiebreak, saving four match points in the process.

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