Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray both had to work double shifts before setting up a mouth-watering Monte Carlo Masters semi-final clash. Top seed and world number one Nadal dispatched Nicolas Lapentti, in a match held over due to torrential downpours, and then saw off Croatia's Ivan Ljubicic. Murray, the fourth seed, defeated Italian Fabio Fognini, having held a one-set lead overnight, and then came back in the evening to end the challenge of Russian sixth seed Nikolay Davydenko 7-6 (7/1), 6-4. Four-time champion Nadal, bidding for a fifth consecutive trophy at the Country Club finished off Ecuador's Lapentti 6-3, 6-0. In late afternoon, he drove home a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Ljubicic.
