Murray will need all the preparation he can get to find a way past Wawrinka, who has been in explosive form in reaching the semi-final. Roger Federer misses out injured, but Rafa Nadal, Andy Murray and defending champ Stan Wawrinka are all here.
McEnroe added: "If you had told me a year ago, when he was the only guy since Rod Laver holding all four Slams that this is what we'd be talking about now, I'd have told you you were nuts".
Nadal, who is bidding for his 10th Roland Garros title, broke his opponent four times in the opening set and was leading 6-2, 2-0 when Carreno Busta was forced to quit just after 51 minutes in the quarter-final clash of the men's singles event.
Murray said: "When we played a year ago, it was a similar situation coming in".
Now 32, and the oldest semi-finalist here since Jimmy Connors in 1985, Wawrinka is confident that will not be repeated.
Rafael Nadal vs Dominic Thiem live streaming, French Open live streaming and tennis live streaming info follows. "And Andy played a lot to reach his goal of getting to No.1, which he achieved, and part of the let-down was because of the amount of matches he played at that time of the year". Murray's only victory over him on terre battue came here in last year's semi-finals, after which the Scot lost to Novak Djokovic in the final. She bounced back and then saved a match point in the tiebreaker.
In contrast to the third set, which included five breaks of serve, neither player faced a break point in the fourth. The toughest match what you can imagine.
Thiem is entering only his second Grand Slam semi-final.
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"He has a huge potential to tap, and he can hit the ball very hard", Nadal said on the eve of the 2017 French Open semi-final, via The Telegraph.
Murray won the first set 7-6 (6) and Wawrinka won the second 6-3.
Breaking Murray three times in a row, Wawrinka used a seven-game run to take the second set, plus a 3-0 lead in the third.
Nadal, meanwhile, is the hot favourite to collect an unprecedented 10th French Open and 15th career major.
The symbols of the three places where he won Grand Slam titles - a kangaroo for the Australian Open, the Eiffel Tower for Roland Garros and the Statue of Liberty for the U.S. Open - are printed on the back of his shoes, above the words "Stan" on his left and "The Man" on his right.
"It looked in the third set like he just didn't want to be out there, couldn't compete any more, and that's shocking for a guy that's won as much as he has and prides himself on competition", said McEnroe. Or will the King Of Clay prevail?
The surly Czech has been interacting more than usual with Murray's rants between points at Roland Garros this fortnight, and his normal terse silence has been interrupted by the occasional cry of 'Come on!' He has dropped the first two sets of his quarterfinal match against sixth-seeded Dominic Thiem of Austria.
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