The win meant that Murray joined Roger Federer, Nadal and Djokovic as the only players to reach the semi-finals or better at all nine of the Masters 1000 Series tournaments during their career.
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World number one Novak Djokovic survived a second-set blip to reach the Paris Masters final with a 6-3 3-6 6-0 win over Stan Wawrinka, his 21st victory in a row.
Wawrinka was the only man to defeat the world number one in a grand-slam event this year, in the French Open final at Roland Garros five months ago.
Despsite not playing his best, Djokovic was able to play the important points better, which ultimately won him two matches that he could have very well lost if he didn’t have the same belief in himself as he does now.
Serves again dominated in the second set with both men holding firm to bring up a second straight tie-break which Djokovic edged 10/8 despite Berdych having another set point.
“But it was good for me to get the chance to play him before the Davis Cup and see his game and the speed of his shots and where he maybe makes a few mistakes from and things that he likes to do”.
“It was a very intense game, he had set points and I held on”, Wawrinka said.
The second-seeded Briton is chasing his fifth title of the season and 36th of his career. Murray likes to be aggressive but against a superb defender in Djokovic, he often tends to overpress when in the prime position to finish a point, which has come back to haunt him.
The Brit broke in the first game of the match and also had Ferrer on the back foot in his second service game, but the resilient Spaniard dug deep to hold and then broke back to level at 3-3.
In previous years, Murray has been knocked out of the French tournament five times at the quarter-final stage.
Djokovic played in all the Masters finals this season, winning the first three in Indian Wells, Miami and Monte Carlo, then prevailing in Rome and Shanghai.
Three weeks before Britain and Belgium face off in the Davis Cup final on clay in Ghent, Murray had just too much pace for the 16th seeded Goffin on the Bercy hard court.
He has now won 22 straight matches since the start of the US Open, and dropped only a single set – against Stan Wawrinka yesterday – in that time.
Ferrer, the 2012 champion, followed up by beating 13th-seeded John Isner 6-3, 6-7 (6-8), 6-2.
He will square off on Sunday against the second-seeded Murray, who cruised to a 6-4, 6-3 semifinal victory over Spain’s David Ferrer.
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Murray stormed out of the blocks to lead 3-0, but with his first serve faltering, Gasquet found a way to work his way back into it, levelling at 4-4 after a break to love in the seventh game.
