Andy Murray has defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 3-6, 7-6(2), 6-4 to win the AEGON Championships singles title at The Queen's Club, London.

The British No.1 and world No.4 recovered from a set down to win an enthralling final staged in front of a capacity 6,858 Centre Court crowd on Monday after play was abandoned on Sunday due to rain.

It was only the third singles final staged on a Monday and following the announcement on Sunday evening, thousands of tickets were sold within an hour of going on sale. An additional 2,000 tickets were sold on the gate on Monday morning for £10 each with ticket holders treated to an entertaining final.

It was Tsonga, bidding to become the first Frenchman to win the Queen's Club title, who started the brighter, breaking the British No.1 in the sixth game of the match to take an unassailable 4-2 first set lead. Murray was struggling to cope with the 27 year-old's powerful service game and groundstrokes as Tsonga held to lead 6-3.

"He (Tsonga) was playing a different sport to me in the first two sets" said Murray afterwards. "I've never seen someone dive so much on the court. He's so much fun to watch and I enjoy watching him myself but he wasn't fun to play."

Tsonga had only dropped one set en route to the final with victories over both world No.1 Rafael Nadal and Britain's No.2 James Ward, but was struggling to contain a resurgent Murray in the second set.

The Briton forced his opponent to save four break points in the eighth game to level at 4-4 and eventually claimed the set after a dominant display in the tie-break, claiming the double mini-break before serving it out 7-2.

Murray commented: "I had quite a few chances to break him in the second set but he was serving great, using a lot of variation on his serve and was being very aggressive but I just managed to get there in the end."

Murray continued to put the pressure on and eventually claimed the all- important break of serve, his first of the match, in game five before edging closer to victory with an outrageous between-the-legs winner at the net for 5-3 which delighted the capacity crowd.

Tsonga held his nerve in his next service game but Murray was not to be denied as he claimed his second AEGON Championships title, adding to victory in 2009, with a ferocious forehand smash.

The 24 year-old becomes the first British player to win the Queen's Club title at least twice since Francis Gordon Lowe who won three titles in 1913,14 and '25.

Meanwhile in the doubles final top seeds Mike and Bob Bryan recovered from a set down to defeat third seeds Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathis 6-7(2), 7-6(4), 10-6 to take their fourth Queen's Club title.

The American brothers have now featured in 12 of the last 13 tournaments at Barons Court and five finals in total.