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Eastbourne: Johanna Konta loses to Karolina Pliskova in semis

British number one Johanna Konta reached her first Eastbourne semi-final by beating Russia's Ekaterina Makarova.

The 25-year-old recovered from an opening-game break to win 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 against 2010 champion Makarova.

Konta had beaten Makarova, 28, at this year's Australian Open, having also beaten her at Eastbourne in 2015's round of 32.

Eleventh seed Konta will face Czech Karolina Pliskova in the semi-final later on Friday.

Konta, who beat two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova in the previous round, said: "I'm happy I get to come back later and play in front of this crowd and hopefully give you a good match.