Robin Soderling reached his maiden Grand Slam semi-final with a straight-sets win over 10th seed Nikolay Davydenko.
Nadal's conqueror adds Davydenko to his list of scalps in Paris
Robin Soderling continued his impressive form at the French Open, thrashing Nikolay Davydenko in straight-sets to become the first man into the semi-finals.
Fresh from inflicting Rafael Nadal's first ever defeat at Roland Garros on Sunday, the Swede demolished the 10th seed in straight sets.
An out-of-sorts Davydenko struggled to make any impression, going down 6-1 6-3 6-1 in one hour and 41 minutes.
Soderling simply carried on from where he left off against Nadal, once again putting on a masterclass of powerful groundstrokes.
The 24-year-old raced through the opening set in just 23 minutes on Suzanne Lenglen court, though the second did prove a little tougher.
Davydenko put up a fight through the first six games, all of which went with serve, before being broken twice on the trot to slip further behind.
By now the Russian looked a beaten man, winning only his first service game of the third set before Soderling put him out of his misery.
"I didn't have a very easy draw," said Soderling, who also overcame Spanish 14th seed David Ferrer in the third round.
"I've played three good claycourt players and I've played three very good matches, so my confidence is getting better and better.
"It was maybe easier than I expected. You expect a tougher match in the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam, but it wasn't as easy as the scoreline suggested.
"I always knew I could play really, really good tennis when I'm on top of my game. But what I'm happiest about is that I've played well for many matches in a row, which was maybe missing a few years ago."
Next up for the 23rd seed will be either world number three Andy Murray or 12th seed Fernando Gonzalez in the last four.
