A semifinal spot will be at stake when Andy Murray and David Ferrer square off at Roland Garros on Wednesday. The winner earns a date with either Novak Djokovic or Rafael Nadal.

Andy Murray and David Ferrer will be meeting for the 16th time in their careers when they collide in the quarterfinals of the French Open on Wednesday.

Murray leads the head-to-head series 9-6, but he is 0-4 lifetime against Ferrer on clay. Their most recent red-dirt encounter also came in the Roland Garros quarters, with Ferrer getting the job done 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-3, 6-2 in 2013. The Spaniard previously prevailed on the slow stuff at the 2006 Barcelona event and in 2010 at Masters tournaments in Rome and Madrid. They faced each other three times last fall, when Ferrer prevailed in Shanghai only to see Murray exact revenge in Vienna and Valencia.

While eight of Murray’s nine wins…