Andy Murray has made the perfect start to his 2011 grass court season by defeating Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 3-6, 7-6(2), 6-4 in Monday's singles final at The Queen's Club, London.

"It really means alot to win" said the world No.4 who 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.

"When you look at the names of the people on the trophy, it's not an easy tournament of this size, probably the strongest on the tour, so I'm glad to have won it for a second time."

With the final abandoned on Sunday due to rain, the tournament was re-scheduled for a Monday finish for only the third time in its history 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 with Centre Court full to capacity by the time the players took to court in glorious sunshine.

"I thought today was a really good atmosphere and I have enjoyed the week" the British No.1 added."It's been one of the most fun weeks of my career, the last two matches in particular were very good."

The Briton was particularly impressive in his demolition of four times winner Andy Roddick in Saturday's semi-finals and showed great recover from a set down against Tsonga in the final.

"It was a high quality match today. Jo is one of the best grass court players in the world. I think today was a better test than the match against Roddick because when I played like I did against Roddick it's not hard to come through the match. But because Jo was playing very, very well, and whilst I was playing well, I knew I needed to improve at the end of the second set which I managed to do."

"Everyone thinks at this period of the year that it's so stressful, you can't play, you can't enjoy yourself, you can't do anything. But I felt like I expressed myself on the court. I felt relaxed and I felt like I was hitting the ball really well."

"It's always been great preparation for guys going into Wimbledon. If you do well here, it shows you're playing good tennis on the grass so I now need to keep that up."

Murray will now spend the week preparing for the third Grand Slam of the year, The Championships, Wimbledon where he will be hoping to better his semi-final finish in 2010, losing to eventual winner and current world No.1 Rafael Nadal.

The world No.4 has already reached the final and semi-finals of the Australian Open and French Open tournaments respectively in 2011.