Andy Murray defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-4, 7-6(8) in one hour and 50 minutes in the semis of the Rogers Cup and will rise to a new career-high of No. 2 in the South African Airways 2009 ATP Rankings on Monday. And he became the first Briton since Roger Taylor in 1970 (l. to Rod Laver) to reach the Rogers Cup final on Saturday.

After 4 years of Nadal's and Federer's domination, Murray will be the first player other than them to rank No. 2 since 18 July 2005. He is already the highest-ranked Briton in ATP history (since 1973).

“It’s great,” said Murray. “In terms of rankings [it is] the biggest step I've made so far. I played consistently well this year, so bar winning a [Grand] Slam, I've done enough to justify being [No.] 2, and getting closer to hopefully one day becoming No. 1 is one of my goals. I’ve put in a lot of hard work to get to this stage, and I keep working hard to go one step farther.”

Andy will meet in today's final with Juan Martin del Potro who defeated Andy Roddick 4-6, 6-2, 7-5 to reach his first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 final.


(via www.atpworldtour.com, photo/AP Photo)

Andy Murray - new world No. 2!