Andy Murray wants to create his own legacy after winning Novak Djokovic securing ATP World Tour title and year-end world No 1 spot

         

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9:54 PM - 20 Nov 2016

Andy Murray has pledged to try and build his own era after crushing Novak Djokovic to capture the year-end world No 1 position.

The 29 year-old Scot brushed off fatigue to dominate his rival and win 6-3, 6-4 in the final of the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals at a feverish O2 Arena.

Afterwards the Wimbledon champion declared that he would give everything to maximise his remaining years at the top and win more Grand Slams.

I want to try and achieve as much as I can these next few years because I'm not going to be around forever,' he said. 'I'm not going to be able to play at this level in my mid 30s.

'These next few years, I want to try and make them the best of my career . I want to try and stay No 1.

'It's taken a huge effort the last six months to get there but I'm aware that's going to be extremely difficult because I had a great year and I only managed to do it by one match. To repeat that again is going to be extremely difficult. 

'I'm motivated to stay in that position but the Majors are what gets me working hard,' said Murray, who planned to head home and postpone celebrations until Monday.

When I go away in December to train, I'm training with the Australian Open in mind. Because of the best-of-five-set matches, they're the ones you have to really put in the extra work for and the extra training for.'

Asked whether he was Britain's greatest ever sportsman, he replied: 'I have no idea. It's always an impossible question to answer. In tennis terms, in terms of my achievements over the years, I'd say I'd be the best tennis player from the UK. 

'In terms of athletes, we've had many great athletes across a number of different sports. It depends which sports you think are the hardest.

He added that he defeated Djokovic despite feeling the effects of a long semi-final against Milos Raonic.

'I felt tired. I didn't feel great this morning. I was hitting the ball fine, but just a bit sluggish, a bit heavy-legged. I was lucky I got it finished in two sets.'

Djokovic was gracious afterwards saying: 'Andy definitely deserves to be No 1, and it was an honour to be part of history. I expected him to play on a high level, I didn't expect him to be too tired.

But I just played very poorly, made a lot of unforced errors from the backhand side. It just wasn't my day. 

'On the other hand, credit to Andy for being mentally tough and playing the right shots, making me play extra shots in every rally.

'Because of the player that he is you know you're always going to get the ball back, I guess that's what makes you think about the risk management. Today just certain things didn't work out as well for me.'