(MENAFN- Kora) Serbia's jankovic the world number nine eased into the last four at the wta international event in bogota with a 6-4 6-4 victory over spanish qualifier lara arruabarrena.
The colombian clay-court event is jankovic's to lose with the next highest-ranked player left in the draw coming in the form of world number 71 vania king.
King the american sixth seed edged out colombia's mariana duque-marino 7-6 (7-4) 7-5 to earn a semi-final date with fifth seed caroline garcia.
Garcia of france got past swiss romina oprandi 6-1 7-5.
Jankovic's semi-final opponent will be the unseeded chanelle scheepers after the south african spent the shortest amount of time on court in the quarter-finals.
Scheepers needed just 53 minutes to dispatch of spanish eighth seed dominguez lino 6-2 6-1.
The world number 79 will fancy her chances of upsetting jankovic too after beating the former world number one on clay in madrid in 2013.
Jankovic won their two meetings prior to that both in 2011.
Garcia and king have never played one another on the wta tour.
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