Kyle Edmund beaten in Winston Salem semi-final

Kyle Edmund suffered semi-final defeat in his bid to reach a first ATP Tour final, going down in three sets to Damir Dzumhur in Winston-Salem.

The British No 2 had impressed in reaching the last four, seeing off Daniil Medvedev and Steve Johnson on route to a meeting with Bosnia's Dzumhur in the final tournament before next week's US Open.

Edmund started fast, racing through the first set against a tired Dzumhur, who had reached a clay-court Challenger final in the Dominican Republic last weekend.

Having taken just a single game in the first set, world no 67 Dzumhur rallied in fine style to reel off the next two sets and book a place in his first final - becoming the first Bosnian to reach an ATP Tour final.

"My first final, this is a special day for me," said Dzumhur.

"I was a little bit tired but in the second set I tried to hold my serve and I broke him in a game when he was 40-15 up, and in that moment everything changed."

Dzumhur will face last year's Winston-Salem runner-up and top seed Roberto Bautista Agut, who eased past Jan-Lennard Struff with a straightforward 6-2 6-4 victory.

Bautista Agut lost to fellow Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta in last year's final in North Carolina and needed just 73 minutes to remain on course for his second title of 2017.

On the women's tour in New Haven, unseeded Australian Daria Gavrilova will face second seed Dominika Cibulkova in the final.

Gavrilova was hugely impressive in toppling defending champion and world No 10 Agnieszka Radwanska thanks to a 6-4 6-4 victory that sees her into a third career final as she takes aim at a first WTA title.

Having beaten the top seed, Gavrilova's opponent will be Cibulkova after her comfortable 6-1 6-3 winner over Belgian qualifier Elise Mertens.