{"id":48792,"date":"2025-07-31T00:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T00:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/48792\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T00:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T00:23:07","slug":"maxime-cressy-shares-plans-to-step-away-from-the-tour-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/48792\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxime Cressy shares plans to &#8216;step away from the Tour&#8217; | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Player News<br \/>\n    Cressy shares plans to &#8216;step away from the Tour&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>American cites back injury<\/p>\n<p>July 30, 2025<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cressy-announcement-2025.jpg\" alt=\"Maxime Cressy reached a career-high No. 31 in August 2022.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Peter Staples\/ATP Tour                           <\/p>\n<p>        Maxime Cressy reached a career-high No. 31 in August 2022.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/maxime-cressy\/c0bc\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maxime Cressy<\/a> is taking a break from the ATP Tour, the 28-year-old shared on Instagram this week, citing a persistent back injury.<\/p>\n<p>Renowned for his serve-and-volley game,\u00a0the former No. 31 in the PIF ATP Rankings has not played a tour-level match since last July in Washington and has only made a handful of appearances on the ATP Challenger Tour this season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just wanted to be honest and transparent: I\u2019ve decided to step away from the Tour for the time being to focus on recovering from an ongoing lower back injury,&#8221; <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMrcviyuedD\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">Cressy wrote.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since 2023, I have had severe lower back pain but I played through it again and again. Today, it has reached a point where I can no longer compete in an entire match competitively. I have dedicated my entire life to becoming the best tennis player I can be, I wished it was to be the best but I know that I have given my absolute best effort and I have the peace of mind with that knowingness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The American lifted his maiden tour-level trophy at the ATP 250 in Newport in 2022, the same season he reached the fourth round of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/australian-open\/580\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Open<\/a>. Cressy reached three additional finals spanning 2022-23 while enjoying nearly a full year inside the Top 50 of the PIF ATP Rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Cressy added: &#8220;I\u2019m grateful for the support and love I\u2019ve received throughout my career, and for those who\u2019ve stood beside me both on and off the court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Player News Cressy shares plans to &#8216;step away from the Tour&#8217; American cites back injury July 30, 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-48792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}