Without playing a point, Murray seals No. 1 spot in Paris
PARIS — After such a long wait, reaching the summit of men’s tennis was an anticlimax for Andy Murray.
Without playing a single point, the Scot ended a seven-year wait to secure the No. 1 spot after advancing to the Paris Masters final following Milos Raonic’s withdrawal from the tournament.
Murray found out about Raonic’s leg injury just one hour before the big-serving Canadian was scheduled to take on the 29-year-old Briton in the semifinals on Saturday.
“The way that it happened today was quite strange,” Murray said. “I had always imagined, obviously, doing it on the court. Like last night, before I went to bed, I was imagining doing it, kind of thinking about it happening on the court after a match.”