Welcome to LIVE coverage of the Monte Carlo Masters semi-final between Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray!

That was probably the best display that we have seen from Murray on clay but in the end Nadal had too much for him and will take on David Ferrer in tomorrow's final

NADAL 6-4 2-6 6-1 - GAME, SET & MATCH - Nadal wraps up his place in the final, serving out to love when Murray sends a forehand long of the baseline.

NADAL 6-4 2-6 5-1 - BREAK - Six-times defending champion, who is looking to be the first man in the open era to win the same tournament seven times in a row, is now just one game away as he breaks to love to leave himself serving for the match

NADAL 6-4 2-6 4-1 - BREAK - Murray at least makes some kind of impression in this deciding set, grabbing his first game to stop the rot, sealing it with a forehand winner down the line. It's still a very long way to come back from the double break down though

NADAL 6-4 2-6 4-0 - BREAK - Nadal is well on his way now to the final as he grabs a second break in this final set with Murray getting increasingly annoyed with himself. The Scot is keeping up almost a constant dialogue with himself and it is not a happy one!

NADAL 6-4 2-6 3-0 - Nadal races through another game, sealing the hold to love with an ace down the centre of the court. That consolidates the break and now Murray can have treatment for his elbow, but only during the change of ends. He can't have a full injury timeout

NADAL 6-4 2-6 2-0 - BREAK - Murray hits a forehand into the top of the tape and, although the ball looks is if it might go over, it ends up bouncing back on this side of the net to hand Nadal a break in this final set. Murray wants treatment on his elbow and goes back to the chair before getting involved in a stroppy exchange with the umpire as he can't have an injury timeout for a pre-existing injury. The highlight? Murray: I'm not stupid. I know what the score is.

NADAL 6-4 2-6 1-0 - The world number one eases through the first game of the final set without too much trouble as Murray shows the first signs of that elbow injury - just putting his hand to the elbow, which he had painkilling injections in this morning

NADAL 6-4 2-6 - SET - Murray serves out his first set on clay against Nadal, dinking a neat backhand drop shot over the net that Nadal does not even bother to run up to. Incredibly that is the first set that Nadal has dropped in Monte Carlo since the final in 2009 when he faced Novak Djokovic. And the occasion before that that he lost a set? The 2006 final against Federer.

NADAL 6-4 2-5 - BREAK - Ouch! After getting that break back Nadal has handed the double advantage straight back to Murray with a double fault at 0-40 down. The Scot will serve for the second set after the change of ends

NADAL 6-4 2-4 - BREAK - Nadal grabs one of the breaks back as Murray sends a forehand long of the baseline after a low-key game, understandable given the intensity of the previous few! Murray still has a one-break lead in this second set but that will be encouraging to the Spaniard

NADAL 6-4 1-4 - BREAK - Despite squandering two break points, both with shots long of the baseline (one a forehand and one a backhand), Murray extends his lead to a double break with a brilliant backhand drop shot that Nadal can't get to before the second bounce

NADAL 6-4 1-3 - Murray yells frustratedly as a change-of-diretion forehand into the net hands Nadal an immediate break back point. The Spaniard squanders it with a cross court backhand passing shot wide. A second chance goes begging as he hits a forehand passing shot long down the line. Nadal goes on to deny Murray on game point with a dying, inch-perfect drop shot before missing a third break point chance and then also a fourth and Murray goes on to hold with a cross court backhand winner

NADAL 6-4 1-2 - BREAK - Murray breaks as Nadal runs around the ball on the baseline only to fire his off forehand about a metre long of the baseline. That was never going in and was just a complete mis-judgement by the world number one

NADAL 6-4 1-1 - A great drop shot from Nadal is just too much from Murray as he hits his whipped forehand into the top of the net despite doing brilliantly well to get to the ball in the first place. But ignoring that the Scot goes on to hold when Nadal pulls an off forehand wide across court

NADAL 6-4 1-0 - A mis-hit from Nadal gives Murray so much time to level up at deuce but in the end the Scot has almost too much time and overhits his forehand, allowing the world number one to hold from 30-15 down and open his account in this second set

NADAL 6-4 - SET - Nadal strikes just when it really matters breaking the steal the set when Murray fails to find the court with another forehand.

NADAL 5-4 - The world number one gets back in front with another comfortable service game, Murray failing to find the court with a forehand on Nadal's first game point. And the Scot will have to serve to stay in the set after the change of ends

NADAL 4-4 - Murray saves a break point with an outstanding forehand after some unusually conservative play from Nadal, but the Spaniard enjoys a second chance just two points later but again Murray saves it with a huge forehand right into the corner of the court. And, after another couple of deuces and almost 15 minutes, Murray goes on to hold when Nadal sends a backhand wide down the line

NADAL 4-3 - BREAK - A first double of the day from Nadal hands Murray three break back points. The first goes begging when Murray hits a forehand down the line into the net after a lengthy cross court exchange, as does the second when a backhand half volley on the baseline from the Scot drifts just wide down the line. But Nadal sends his forehand into the tramlines after pulling the trigger too early and we're back on serve