FRENCH OPEN
Venue: Roland Garros Date: 24 May - 7 June
Coverage: Live on BBC Red Button, live streaming and daily text commentary on BBC Sport website, updates on BBC Radio 5 Live plus second week commentary on BBC 5 Live Sports Extra. TV coverage on Eurosport.
 Murray will need to be wary of Gonzalez's huge forehand
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Andy Murray goes into Tuesday's French Open quarter-final with Fernando Gonzalez knowing he has a great chance of winning his first Grand Slam.
Following Rafael Nadal's shock defeat on Sunday, Murray's half of the draw suddenly appears a lot more open.
But the Briton, 22, knows Chilean Gonzalez, who he has beaten once and lost to once in their previous matches - neither on on clay - will be tough.
"It's going to be a very difficult match," Murray told his website.
"He has won all of his matches very easily so far. He made the semis in Rome. He has got a huge forehand and he serves well. He loves playing on clay and I am going to have to play well.
"He's very unpredictable, which makes it tough to play against him. I have to play a very consistent match and keep the ball deep. You don't want to leave the ball in the middle of the court against him."
Murray, who is ranked third in the world, is only the third British man to make the Roland Garros quarter-finals in the Open era, after Roger Taylor in 1973 and Tim Henman in 2004.
He goes into the last eight match off the back of a superb straight-sets victory over Marin Cilic in the fourth round and will be hoping to maintain that form as he continues to seek his first Grand Slam title.
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Murray, whose best result in a Grand Slam is his defeat by Roger Federer in the 2008 US Open final, added: "Tim obviously made the semis here, so it would be nice to try and match that.
"I always felt I could play well on clay. But I just needed a bit of time to find my game.
"Obviously the results have got better because I've played more matches on it. That's nice, but I'll try and go further."
Gonzalez, 28, has reached at least the quarter-finals stages of every Grand Slam - going furthest in the Australian Open in 2007, where he lost to Federer in the final.
The South American is in blistering form coming into his match with Murray.
He has yet to drop a set and he hit 50 winners on his way to a 6-2 6-4 6-2 hammering of Victor Hanescu in the last round.
Gonzalez completely overpowered the Romanian with his booming forehand, and after the match he said: "I could do what I wanted with my forehand and backhand."
The 12th seed will not be overawed by the task ahead of him, having a history of beating world number one players throughout his career.
However, Gonzalez was beaten by Murray in their last match, a fiery encounter in the third round of the US Open in 2006.
But with both players full of confidence and sensing a superb opportunity to go further in the tournament than they ever have before, it should be a titanic battle.
The winner will face the victor of the match between Nadal's conqueror, Sweden's Robin Soderling, and Russia's Nikolay Davydenko.
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