Andy Murray News And Update: His Journey To Become World No.1 in 2017

Andy Murray recently won his first Dubai Championship title against Fernando Verdasco. His form indicates that he will have a great 2017.

This is Andy Murray's schedule of 2017 as stated on his official site: BNP Paribas Open (10 - 19 March), Miami Open (24 March - 02 April), Monte Carlo Rolex Masters (17 April), Mutua Madrid Open (08 - 14 May), Internazionali BNL D'Italia (15 - 21 May), Roland Garros (29 May - 11 June), Queens 2017 (19 - 25 June), Wimbledon (03 - 16 July), Coupe Rogers (07 - 13 August), Western & Southern Open (14 - 20 August), US Open (28 August - 10 September), Shanghai Rolex Masters (09 - 15 October) and BNP Paribas Masters (30 October - 05 November). He has many an opportunity to achieve big in 2017.

Andy Murray has got better and better since he returned from back surgery. He achieved his career bests for finals reached (10) and equaled his best for tournaments won (6). He won his third grand slam title and stayed at personal best of No. 2 longer than in the rest of his career combined.

Andy Murray's fans are waiting for him to become the World No. 1 Tennis player for the first time in his career by leaving Djokovic behind. As written in The Telegraph, 2017 will present Murray with the chance of winning his third Wimbledon title.

Andy Murray has played at the ATP World Tour Masters 11 times, every year since 2006. He reached finals in 2009 but lost against Rafael Nadal and reached top four in 2007 and 2015. Unfortunately, both the times he lost against Novak Djokovic.

Currently, Andy Murray holds a total of 14 titles and he is behind Roger Federer (24 titles), Rafael Nadal (28 titles) and Novak Djokovic (30 titles). It's just a start of 2017 and he already won his first ATP World Tour Title last week at the Dubai Duty-Free Tennis Championships.

Andy Murray has now reached the final in seven of his last eight tournaments which add 14 of his past 16. Hope his 2017 will be as fantastic as he started.