MURRAY BACK IN TOP TEN
Andrew Murray returned to the world's top 10 this weekend following victory at the Open 13 in Marseille on Sunday.
A 6-3 6-4 victory over Mario Ancic in Marseille was enough to give Murray his second tournament victory of the year and return to tenth in the world rankings after dropping out of the world's elite list earlier in the year.
Murray dropped down to eleventh after losing his opening-round Australian Open tie to eventual unseeded finalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga despite winning the Qatar Masters ahead of the year's first major.
Despite the Marseille tournament not holding much weight in the tennis calendar, Murray was still delighted with this second win of 2008.
"Roger Federer won here (Marseille) at 20 too so I'm on the right track," said Murray
"It's important to win these tournaments - it's what gives you confidence to go and play well in the Grand Slams.
"For me, winning Grand Slams is more important than being number one. Players are judged on how many they win - that's how good their career is.
"But if you are winning Grand Slams obviously you are pretty close to number one anyway.
"For me, I've always set goals for each year. First the top 100, then the top 20, then the top 10. Now it is a Grand Slam.
"If I can do that in the next couple of years then I'll be going for number one."
Murray did concede however that he is not the only player looking to end the dominance of the Swiss player.
"When Federer in the next four or five years starts to taper down, there are a lot of guys like Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, myself, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Richard Gasquet who will be going for number one.
"There's a lot of guys who have a good chance of going for it."
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