Murray hoping to 'win back some fans' with stellar performance at Tour Finals

Britain number one Andy Murray is hoping that he would win back some fans when he returns to action in the United Kingdom at the ATP World Tour Finals.

Murray would begin his campaign against Japan's Kei Nishikori at London's O2 Arena on Sunday. It would be Murray's first match in the London since he backed Scottish independence in September.

The Scot said that the crowd has always given him very good support when he has played there and at Wimbledon and Queen's throughout his whole career, The BBC reported.

He added that so he is hoping this week that's the same but if not, he would do his job, he would give his best effort regardless and hopefully win back some fans this week.

Murray won three titles in a six-week stretch of tournaments as he battled to qualify for the season-ending championships and climbed back to sixth in the rankings. He said that winning matches is how one plays himself into form and that's what he needed to do at this time of year.

The Scot said that this week in practice he has been OK. He added that the practices have been hard, as one is practising with the best players in the world so that's always tough, but it's good.

Murray will compete with Nishikori, Roger Federer and Milos Raonic for one of the two-semi-final places from Group B, the report added.