Australian Open: Sania-Soares, Paes-Hingis pairs reach semis

Good day for India as both tennis stars edge closer for mixed-doubles title

Update: 2015-01-28 17:05 GMT
The top-seeded duo of Sania Mirza and Bruno Soares sailed into the mixed doubles semifinals of the Australian Open after carving out a straight-sets win over the home pair of Casey Dellacqua and John Peers. (Photo: AP/ File)

Melbourne: Sania Mirza and Leander Paes were on course for an Australian Open showdown as they reached the mixed doubles semifinals with their respective partners on Wednesday.

Sania and her top-seeded Brazilian partner Bruno Soares carved out an easy 6-2, 6-2 win over the home pair of Casey Dellacqua and John Peers in the quarterfinals, which lasted only 53 minutes.

Seventh seeded Paes and Swiss Martina Hingis progressed from the bottom-half of the draw with a 6-3, 6-1 win over fourth seeds Andrea Hlavackova from Czech Republic and Austria's Alexander Peya.

(Photo: AP)

Sania and Soares broke their rivals two times each in both the sets. They did not face any breakpoint in the opening set and saved a couple in the second set. They now await winners of the other last-eight match between third seeds Kristina Mladenovic/Daniel Nestor and fifth seeds Cara Black/Juan Sebastian Cabal.

Paes and Hingis will face either Taipei's Su-Wei Hsieh and Pablo Cuevas from Uruguay or second seeds Katarina Srebotnik from Slovakia and Marcelo Melo from Brazil.

Meanwhile, in the boys singles, Sumit Nagal's campaign ended with a crushing 1-6, 1-6 defeat against Australia's Marc Polmans in the third round.

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