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With a Throwback Style, He’s Charging Forward

We’re well past the glory days of the serve-and-volley style that took John McEnroe, Martina Navratilova and Pete Sampras to the Hall of Fame. Maxime Cressy is on a one-man revival mission.

For Maxime Cressy, playing at the net is a central part of his tennis strategy.Credit...Sebastien Bozon/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

WIMBLEDON, England — “My butt is killing me.”

That was Maxime Cressy, a little more than an hour after his four hour, 10 minute marathon win over Felix Auger-Aliassime on Tuesday in the fading light of the No.