Murray climbed two places in the rankings

The Dunblane teenager's season ended following a 7-6 (8-6) 6-0 loss to Dominik Hbraty in the third round of the Paris Masters last week.

Nikolay Davydenko's win in the same event moves him up to third - displacing David Nalbandian, who slips to seventh.

Roger Federer tops the rankings, with Rafael Nadal remaining in second place.

Interview: Andy Murray

Murray said beating Federer at the Cincinatti Masters was one of the highlights of his year along with winning his first major tournament at the San Jose Open in February.

There were some individual matches when I played great but my consistency was not as good as I would have liked Andy Murray

"I wanted to get into the top 20 this time last year. That was what I was trying to do. I maybe did not expect to win my first tournament so early or to beat Federer," Murray said.

"But I have managed to do that. It has maybe not happened the way that I expected it.

"But I always wanted to get into the top 20 so that wasn't a shock.

"There were some individual matches when I played great but my consistency was not as good as I would have liked.

"But beating Roddick and Hewitt back to back in San Jose was great. I played really well during the American hard-court stretch.

"There is not one match in particular but there have been some really great matches this year."

Murray said his decision to team up with American coach Brad Gilbert had been instrumental in his success.

"Working with Brad has been great. He is one of the best coaches in the world and has lots of experience," Murray said.