ANDY MURRAY battled to a 5-7, 6-2, 7-5 victory over David Ferrer in the final of the Erste Open in Vienna to boost his chances of reaching the ATP Tour Finals.

The British number one climbed up into the eighth and final qualifying place on the Race To London, by securing a crucial 250 points, with only two ranking events remaining.

Murray broke his opponent three times in the third set before serving for the match to win the title - which is only his second of the year.

Tomas Berdych, meanwhile, consolidated seventh place in the rankings after he defeated Grigor Dimitrov to win the final of the Stockholm Open.

Ferrer, ninth in the ATP list heading into yesterday's final, had edged the first set before Murray rallied to level and force a decider.

Both men felt the pressure with a run of five service breaks before Murray closed out victory after a little more than one hour and 40 minutes.

In the third set, Murray was on the front foot as he forced a deciding break with some aggressive baseline returns and served for the match at 6-5.

A long return from Ferrer presented a first match point, which Murray claimed with an ace wide to the left tramlines, which was corrected on Hawkeye appeal.

Murray reflected on a closely-fought contest, but immediately turned his attentions towards the Valencia Open 500.

"It was an extremely difficult match," he said.

"He deserved to win the first set, I deserved the second and the third could have gone either way, it was extremely close at the end, I just managed to get through," Murray added.

"We played two really close matches, David won last week in Shanghai, and whoever qualifies for the finals will deserve it.

"It is the best players over the 12 months, so we will see in the next [few] weeks, but it is going to be very close.

"We leave this evening for Valencia.

"Every tournament right now is very important.

"Maybe [I will have] one glass of champagne tonight, but not more than that."