Yachting: Brady needs one more win over Coutts

Oracle BMW Racing helmsman Gavin Brady needs just one more win over fellow New Zealander Russell Coutts to get to the final of the Toscana Elba Cup in Italy.

After a horrid start to the Swedish Match Tour regatta Coutts won five straight round-robin matches and stormed into the quarter-finals.

Coutts, the Alinghi skipper, then defeated former Team New Zealand tactician Bertand Pace 2-1.

Brady, who won the round robin with a 10-1 record, now leads Coutts 2-1 in the best-of-five semifinal.

The winner of match will square off in the final against Australian Peter Gilmour, who beat Poland's Karol Jablonski in the other semifinal.