BIRMINGHAM: Former world number one Ana Ivanovic suggested she may be overcoming her fear of grass at last as she moved within one win of her first-ever final on the green stuff.

The top-seeded Serb scored her third successive straight-sets win of the week, a 6-1, 6-4 success against Klara Koukalova, the sixth-seeded Czech, to reach the semi-finals of the Birmingham Open, a significantly upgraded pre-Wimbledon tournament.

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