Thiem ends Cecchinato fairytale to reach French Open final

Dominic Thiem ended Marco Cecchinato's French Open fairytale on Friday, reaching his first Grand Slam final with a 7-5, 7-6 (12/10), 6-1 victory.

Seventh seed Thiem is the first Austrian to make a final at the majors since Thomas Muster was champion in Paris in 1995.

Thiem will face either 10-time champion, and world number one, Rafael Nadal or Juan Martin del Potro, the fifth-seeded Argentine, in Sunday's final.

World 72 Cecchinato had knocked out three seeded players to reach the semi-finals, including 12-time major winner Novak Djokovic in the quarter-finals.

Thiem, 24, has a losing record against both Nadal (3-6) and Del Potro (0-4) but he is the only man to have defeated the Spaniard on clay in the last two years. He believes he has a particularly powerful weapon on his side -- breakfast.

"I need to regenerate and have a good breakfast to keep up my good level.

"Full power on Sunday."
"It was a really close tiebreak and I didn't want that especially after I missed an easy volley at 6/4. "That was not a nice feeling."