A resurgent Andy Murray will play for a sixth straight week when he competes at the Paris Masters in an effort to finish the season in the top four and gain a better draw at the 2015 majors. Murray has played 20 matches in five weeks, winning three titles to climb to fifth in the ATP Race.

The two-time Grand Slam champion also seeks to qualify for next month’s ATP World Tour Finals. Murray said: “I always wanted to qualify for it, but also I want to get back into the top 8 players in the world and it makes a huge difference for seedings in the major events. I still have a chance of getting maybe to 4 between now and the end of the year.”

Murray, meanwhile, believes Gala Leon’s appointment as Spain’s Davis Cup captain was handled “horribly”. The British number one publicly congratulated Leon on Twitter when she was announced as Carlos Moya’s successor in September to become Spain’s first female Davis Cup captain. Yet Rafa Nadal’s coach and uncle Toni said her appointment could create problems “at dressing room level” because she had “zero relations” with leading Spanish players. Former Wimbledon champion Murray, who caused a stir when he chose Frenchwoman Amelie Mauresmo as his coach after he split with Ivan Lendl earlier this year, said he had spoken to various Spanish players about the issue.

“I have spoken to the players about it, and it sounds like the way it was handled was done horribly,” Murray said. “It seems like the (Spanish) Federation and the players weren’t getting along before the appointment was made. None of the players were consulted about who the captain was going to be. The players wanted (Carlos) Moya to be the captain, and this year he was the captain. And then the players ended up not playing and not showing up so the federation were like ‘if you aren’t going to show up, then we’ll pick whoever we want’. So it was a bit messy and regardless if it was a man or a woman. Communications between the players and the federation clearly wasn’t there.”

Moya quit after five-time champions Spain, fielding a weakened team, were relegated from the elite World Group for the first time in 18 years after a playoff loss in Brazil.Spanish number two David Ferrer backed up Murray’s version of events. “The decision was too premature, too quick, without consulting the players which was always the case in the past,” he told Spanish radio on Tuesday.

“To do things well the best thing is appoint a captain who has a good feeling (with the players), who knows men’s tennis. It’s not about the fact that Gala Leon is a woman, that is irrelevant. There are (male) players who deserved the job more, who have more experience.”