Andy Murray beats David Ferrer for Erste Bank Open title

Andy Murray continued his recent resurgence Sunday by winning his second title in three weeks at the Erste Bank Open in Vienna and boosting his chances of making the cut for the ATP finals.

The 11th-ranked Murray rallied to defeat David Ferrer, 5-7, 6-2, 7-5, in a dramatic finish. The Scot lost a 2-0 lead in the deciding set but won four straight games from 5-3 down, ending the match with his ninth ace.

“It always feels good to win a tournament,” Murray said. “He deserved to win the first set, I deserved the second and the third could have gone either way. It’s been a great week and I’m very happy.”

The second-seeded Scot, who improved to 30-14 in career finals, also won in Shenzhen in September to end a 14-month title drought.

Murray became only the fifth active player with 30 or more titles alongside Roger Federer (81), Rafael Nadal (64), Novak Djokovic (46) and Lleyton Hewitt (30).

The victory also boosted Murray’s chances of getting to the eight-man ATP Finals in London next month. The Scot is in eighth position, one ahead of Ferrer, in the qualifying race to the prestigious season-ending event.

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U.S. Open champion Marin Cilic won the Kremlin Cup on Sunday, beating Roberto Bautista Agut, 6-4, 6-4, in the final.

The big-serving Croat, seeded second, broke his Spanish opponent once in each set at Moscow’s Olimpiisky arena to take his 13th career title and fourth of the season.

Earlier Sunday, sixth-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia defeated Romania’s Irina-Camelia Begu, 6-4, 5-7, 6-1, to win the women’s event.

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Top-seeded Tomas Berdych beat defending champion Grigor Dimitrov, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4, to win the Stockholm Open in Helsinki for the second time.

Berdych claimed his 10th career title despite wasting a 5-3 lead in the first set. He broke Dimitrov early in each of the next two sets to wrap up the win and stay on course to qualify for the season-ending ATP finals in London.

Dimitrov was bidding to claim his fourth title of the year but slipped further behind Andy Murray in his attempt to qualify for London.