Watch French Open Semi Final from Roland Garros

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Enjoy the latest action from the 2017 French Open - which is live on Eurosport and Eurosport Player.

Nadal reached a 10th final at his favorite tournament - he's 9-0 so far - by overwhelming No. 6 Dominic Thiem of Austria 6-3, 6-4, 6-0 in barely 2 hours.

Nine-time champion Rafael Nadal is facing sixth-seeded Dominic Thiem, the only man to beat the Spaniard on clay this season.

The women's final will be Halep vs. Ostapenko.

Murray struggled this year after being diagnosed with shingles in February and sustaining an elbow injury in March but eight-time grand slam champion Lendl says the Briton is now injury free and able to train fully again.

The No. 3-seeded Wawrinka, a 32-year-old from Switzerland, reached the fourth Grand Slam final of his career.

He will face Stan Wawrinka today looking to repeat last year's victory, which earned him a first final appearance at Roland Garros.

It was a rollercoaster of a match, with Murray second best for most of the first three sets but somehow emerging two sets to one in front.

The first set was a pointer to the underlying theme of the match which was a contest between Wawrinka's brilliance versus Murray's resilience.

Fourth-seeded Rafael Nadal is bidding for a 10th French Open title, more than anyone has won at a single Grand Slam tournament in the Open era.

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"I'm extremely confident about what I do, about how I feel, about all the hard work I have accomplished over the past days, weeks, months, years", said Wawrinka, victor of a career-best 10 consecutive matches. I'm sure he will, as well, and will try to change some things. It was a triumph of offense over defense, as Wawrinka used his sublime one-handed backhand and hammer of a forehand to send Murray scrambling and sliding all over the red clay at Court Philippe Chatrier for a tad more than four hours.

Nadal, who has won all nine finals he has played in Paris, will take on 2015 champion Stan Wawrinka on Sunday.

Murray won the first set 7-6 (6).

Spain's Rafael Nadal plays a shot against Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta during their quarterfinal match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium, in Paris, France.

The fifth set was an anti-climax as Wawrinka raced to a 5-0 lead. Wawrinka smashed 87 winners, mostly off his forehand to start with before the backhand joined the party in the second set.

Wawrinka was again off the blocks first in the second set as he again broke Murray's serve in the seventh game. If you have three illnesses and an injury which take you out for some time, it's very hard mentally for the player. At that moment, each man had won 43 points, their contrasting styles essentially erasing each other. Wednesday, June 7, 2017.

He said: "When I'm getting into longer rallies now, I feel like I'm sort of on autopilot a little bit, like I know what I should be doing, and I'm hitting the ball in the right place".

But Wawrinka missed a backhand to give away that chance. Then Wawrinka used a seven-game run to take the second set, plus a 3-0 lead in the third.

Wawrinka pointed to his right temple, as he often does to celebrate success on key points, and was on his way to the final.

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