The decider flashed by in just half an hour as Wawrinka levelled his grand slam win-loss record against Murray to 3-3 with yet another backhand victor.
Third-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka sailed to the final of French Open 2017 beating world number 1 Andy Murray 6-7, 6-3, 5-7, 7-6, 6-1 in the semi-final.
After a long fight, Wawrinka snatched the match with crushing 6-1 win in the fifth set.
Nadal is looking for history in his bid for a 10th title at Roland Garros. "Although it might become 10 if I do win..."
"So I have to be proud of that". I did well considering. For me, being in the final was always going to be a very positive result. So I have to be proud of that.
"Today he did not play very well". A lot of long points.
"When you haven't been playing loads, four and a half hours, that can catch up to you a little bit".
"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. That's the only thing that really matters, no?
Stan Wawrinka shakes hands with Andy Murray after their French Open semi-final.
The Real Madrid fan Nadal has won at Roland Garros nine times, the last time in 2014, the same year his football team won their 10th Champions League.
"It's true that Dominic played with more mistakes than usual, it was windy out there".
But what attack and what defence.
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The fourth was even as can be until Wawrinka stepped up in the tiebreaker by winning its final three points, the last with a run-around forehand return victor delivered from outside the doubles alley.
Given his resilience, it is hard to believe that Wawrinka is 32.
When Wawrinka hit a reflex volley passing victor off a blink-and-you-miss-it exchange with both men at the net, he held a set point at 6-5 in the first-set tiebreaker. Nadal would hold to love to take a two-set lead.
"I lost my way a little bit", Murray said.
- Wawrinka hit an incredible 87 winners to Murray's 36.
Wawrinka surrendering the first set ultimately didn't affect him but the same couldn't be said about Thiem.
But the Swiss regrouped and came back swinging, capitalising on a poor Murray drop shot to win the tie-break and then blasting his way through the fifth against an opponent who had spent all his energy.
"Physically I didn't feel my best at the end". "I didn't have enough weight on my shot at the end of the match to put him under pressure".
"A lot of the points he was dictating from the middle of the court and I was retrieving and allowing him to pretty much hit the shots that he wants. I was trying to focus on my game". That's why he's number one in the world. I knew I had some good chances in the first set, in the third set also. "He was very aggressive, and he never really let me install my game".
Rafa reached the final at the Australian Open, and he has now steamrolled his way to the French Open final as well.
Nadal advanced to his 10 Roland Garros final on Friday by avenging his lone clay-court loss of the season, dismissing Austrian Dominic Thiem 6-3, 6-4, 6-0 in the semi-final.
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