Murray determined to topple Djokovic at top of world rankings

The Serb currently leads the way by 2,415 points, but after a year in which he won his second Wimbledon and Olympic titles, Murray is hot on Djokovic's heels and could take top spot before next month's ATP World Tour Finals in London. Should the 29-year-old win this week's Erste Bank Open in Vienna, he will narrow the gap on 12-time major winner Djokovic by 500 points, before the game's finest then travel to Paris next week for the final Masters 1000 event of the season. It would require results to fall in Murray's favour before the season finale at London's O2 arena in November, where the winner will earn 1,500 points. And while Murray is the first to admit improvements in his game must be made if he is to topple Djokovic at the top of the rankings, he is determined to give it his best shot. "I was close, if not to finish number one a few years ago, around the US Open time. But to finish the year-end world number one would be my best chance," Murray told Sky Sports. "Novak's still got a pretty big lead in terms of points and he plays extremely well on the indoor hardcourts and has played in London whereas I've struggled a little bit so I've got to make some improvements this year if I want to get close to doing that. "If you talk about getting to number one, it's not about individual tournaments, it's about a 12-month period and obviously you want to be consistent and get to the latter stages of as many tournaments as possible, which I've done the last few months and obviously I will try and do over the next few events if it's possible. "It's not about one event, it's about a total season of 17, 18 tournaments and whoever performs best over them will get there and right now that's obviously Novak but I'll try my best to finish as strong as I can."

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