Chilean 12th seed Fernando Gonzalez reached his first French Open semi-final after a 6-3, 3-6, 6-0, 6-4 victory over British third seed Andy Murray yesterday.

World number 12 Gonzalez will meet 23rd seed Robin Soderling in the last four, the Swede having beaten Russian 10th seed Nikolay Davydenko in straight sets in his quarter-final.

"I know he's not used to the ball bouncing high because he doesn't play on clay much. I took every chance that he gave and that was important in the fourth set," Gonzalez said.

Murray conceded that the Chilean's powerful forehand had made the difference.

"I've played against him before and he hits it hard, but today he was hitting it huge. It's easy to look from the side and think you could have done this, you could have done that, but the guy was just hitting it so hard.