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Andy Murray took another big step towards becoming the world No 1 after beating Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-3 7-6 (8-6) in the final of the Erste Bank Open in Vienna. The reigning Wimbledon and Olympic champion won his third title of the autumn and seventh tournament win of the year to move to within just 415 points behind Novak Djokovic.Murray can top the rankings for the first time in his career as early as November 7 if he wins next weeks Masters event in Paris and Djokovic fails to reach the final. Watch NOW TV Watch Sky Sports for just ￡6.99. No contract. Murray won the title thanks to his fifth ace on his second match point The Scot added to the 2014 Vienna title by claiming his 42nd career title and is now on a 15-match winning streak after securing back-to-back titles in Beijing and Shanghai. He has lost just three matches since the French Open in June.I get a step closer with every win but its still a long way from here, Murray said. From two to one seems a small jump in a way but its the hardest one to make. To go from 100 to 50 is more spots but is a lot easier.Tsonga, the 2011 champion in Vienna, was looking to overturn a four-match losing streak against Murray, but the Scot was playing immaculate indoor tennis. A single break of serve in the second game was enough for the Briton in the opening set. Did you know... Should Andy Murray overhaul Novak Djokovic he would become the oldest first-time world No 1 since John Newcombe scaled the summit aged 30 in 1974. Murray and Tsonga played out this sensational 27-shot rally He quickly established a lead by breaking in the first game of the second set, but the 31-year-old former Australian Open finalist found some form by winning four on the trot, including a break in the eighth game, to forced a tie-break. Murray edged his opponent in this thrilling rally Murray found some resolve during a thrilling breaker, clinching victory with his fifth ace on his second match point to extend his head-to-head record over Tsonga to 14-2. Murray beat Tsonga to win the ATP Erste Bank Open and gain another 500 points on world No 1 Novak Djokovic Tsonga said: Next week he has the chance to be number one, I hope it will be the case, except if I play against him in Paris. Check our game-by-game updates from all of Andy Murrays matches at next weeks ATP Paris Masters on skysports.com/tennis, our app for mobile devices and iPad and our Twitter account @skysportstennis, live on Sky Sports. Also See: How Murray beat Tsonga... Murray v Djokovic: The race is on Tennis on Sky Cibulkova prevails in Singapore Keith Tkachuk Jersey . According to a report from the Vancouver Province, the Lions are expected to replace former DC Rich Stubler with defensive backs coach Mark Washington. Teemu Selanne Jets Jersey . 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The lawyers filed a 33-page amended complaint Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan, expanding on the suit originally filed Oct. 3 in New York Supreme Court. Arbitrator Fredric Horowitz last week refused to compel Selig to testify in the grievance, and Rodriguez then walked out of the hearing without testifying. Inzamam-ul-Haq is not only a man of few words, he is a man of precise ones, unwilling to expend vocabulary just as he never used up more energy than was necessary while playing. Once, famously, when a reporter asked him about the possibility of a match having been fixed, he leaned over as slow and sure as he often did into a cover drive, gathered his thoughts and replied with no emotion or change in expression: Shut up.He was sauntering around Edgbaston on Thursday in his capacity as Pakistans chief selector, no doubt pleased that the two changes to Pakistans XI for this Test have reaped such immediate and healthy reward.Now, Inzamam had been out of cricket for a while until he became chief selector, and Inzamam being out of cricket means he was really out of it. There is little chance he would have seen too much of Sami Aslam as he was setting the U-19 world alight. Thursday would have been the first time he saw him bat in serious circumstances and it was certainly the toughest test he would have seen him undergo.His assessment was exact and worth paraphrasing here. There are some batsmen who are shot-makers, he said - and not revealing those he named does not make it any more difficult to know which names he meant - and some who know how to score runs. Aslam, he said, was the latter.No matter how many times we see Aslam bat over the rest of his career, this truth will be enough in guiding us. It is certainly not a dig and neither does it imply an incapability to play shots. He has them, as anyone who has seen his limited-overs performances at U-19 level will attest.In his 82 today there were a few you might want to GIF, chief among them a little straight drive off Chris Woakes. But they just do not seem as important - even of the two sixes Pakistan hit off Moeen Ali, it was probably Azhar Alis that will stick more in the mind. And, ask yourself, how often you can say that of any shot Azhar plays?No stroke of Aslams was as memorable as any other which got him runs, which is to say there were plenty. There were the bunts on the off, the easy pushes off his thighs and hips. And there were the leaves, which today were guaranteed greater attention than they might otherwise have had because it was something the man he replaced - Masood - was unable to do.That kind of judgment, and its suggestion of an intelligent batting mind, was present through the entirety of his innings. After he twice lap-swept Moeen for boundaries, even those did not seem as important as the effect they had on Englands field: duly they moved square leg to leg slip and Aslam dinked a little single into the newly--created vacancy.ddddddddddddTwice he went long periods without a boundary, first for 13 overs before lunch - brought to an end by that drive off Woakes - and then for over an hour after lunch. In that first period his scoring stalled, moving from 10 to 15. In the second he went from 23 to 47. But at no point during either did the fact of no boundaries, or even a supply of runs, seem to matter in the context of Pakistans innings, or, more importantly, did it perturb his. Throughout he knew where and how he would get his runs, and he did.You can go through this Pakistan batting order and, in conditions outside Asia and sometimes against the better bowlers inside Asia, feel that no matter how long some of them stay at the crease, they rarely look truly settled, or at least not in the sense that the best young batsmen of this age do.That is what would have pleased Pakistan the most, that at no stage after he was set did Aslam look like an implosion was a matter of inevitability, with only the details for that eventual demise to be inked in. As good a batsman as he has shown himself to be, to give off this sense of permanence in his first Test innings in England is what perhaps stood out - you have to go back a decade to find as assured an innings by a Pakistani opener in England (Mohammad Hafeez at The Oval, in case you felt like turning your mind inside-out briefly, and hes never had it so good here since) and maybe a decade before that for anyone to have done it with any regularity. Aslam batted as if completely ignorant of the not-so-pretty context of being a Pakistani opener in England.Such was the serenity that radiated out from Aslam, it actually helped Azhar Ali settle down, as he would later admit. For a man playing his ninth Test in England and 48th overall to say that about a man playing his first in England and third anywhere is, well ... it is something.The curse of history, of course, is unavoidable and so, to end on a note of caution is not only wise but necessary. Pakistan have burnt through way too many openers over the last 20 years even to begin to imagine that they might have found a permanent solution to a permanent problem. Too many have come, impressed like Aslam, maybe even for longer and with greater force, and then whoosh, gone, just like that.Perhaps it is enough to imagine that for now, a Pakistan opener may have changed the course of a Test in England - and even that is hardly set in stone - and with it, just maybe, the series. ' ' '