Rafael Nadal crushed Andy Murray in the Wimbledon quarter-finals

Second seed Rafael Nadal crushed British hope Andy Murray in the Wimbledon quarter-finals on Wednesday, racing to a 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 victory.

The Spaniard was simply unstoppable as he picked apart the Scot in front of a Centre Court crowd who had been hoping for a repetition of Murray's epic fourth round win over Richard Gasquet.

From the moment Nadal, runner-up here for the last two years, broke serve in the eighth game the outcome was inevitable and Murray sank under a barrage of baseline thunderbolts.

French Open champion Nadal broke serve twice in the second set and pounced again at 3-3 in the third. Murray had battled back from two sets and a break down against Gasquet but Nadal was relentless as he stormed into the semi-final against either Rainer Schuettler or Arnaud Clement.