Murray says 'deserves to be' in London Tour Finals

andy murrayLondon, Oct 30 - Britain number one Andy Murray has said that if he gets in to London he deserves to be there, after he moved to within one win of qualifying for the World Tour Finals with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Julien Benneteau at the Paris Masters.

Murray, who is fifth in the race to qualify for November's finals, outclassed his French opponent in 71 minutes to reach the third round. He just needs to reach the quarterfinals in France to clinch his place in London.

The Scot, who has won three titles in five weeks, would face Grigor Dimitrov , who beat Murray at Wimbledon, next, The BBC reported.

Bulgarian Dimitrov, who also has a chance to qualify for the season-ending tournament, thrashed Uruguay's Pablo Cuevas 6-0, 6-3.

Murray said that he put in a lot of hard work the last few weeks, played a lot of tough, long matches. He added that if he gets in to London he deserves to be there, because it's ones results across the whole year.

He said that his results in most of the tournaments this year, most of the big tournaments, have been good enough to be in the top eight.

Meanwhile, world number two Federer, a winner last week in Basel, joined Murray in the last 16 thanks to a 7-6 (7-5), 6-7 (5-7), 6-4 win over Jeremy Chardy and will next face France's Lucas Pouille, who beat Italian 16 th seed Fabio Fognini 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-6), in the third-round.

Moreover, Canada's Milos Raonic spent over eight minutes searching for a suitable toilet before battling back to beat American Jack Sock 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (7-4). The number seven seed, who needs to win the tournament to guarantee his place in London, said that whoever the escort who took him was, took him into a bathroom that had no seats on the toilet.

He said that he didn't want to squat, so he kept saying, that 'let's go to another one', and they ended up going to the locker room.

Stanislas Wawrinka, who like Federer and Djokovic has already qualified for the Tour Finals, won his first match in more than a month, beating Austrian Dominic Thiem 6-4, 7-6 (8-6).

Fourth seed David Ferrer overcame Belgium's David Goffin, while fellow Spaniards Feliciano Lopez and Roberto Bautista-Agut also progressed.

Japanese sixth seed Kei Nishikori, another in the running for World Tour Finals, beat Spanish veteran and Valencia Open runner-up Tommy Robredo 6-7 (4-7), 6-2, 6-3.

Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga , the 10th seed, beat Austria's Jurgen Melzer 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 and fellow countryman Gael Monfils beat 13th-seeded American John Isner 6-4, 7-6 (7-4), the report added. (ANI)