<p>The seventh seed Indo-Russian pair wrapped up the quarter-final clash in one hour and six minutes after blanking the Argentine-Italian duo in the first set.<br /><br />This is for the first time that Sania has reached the women's doubles semifinals in a Grand Slam event.<br /><br />The quarter-final appearances in the 2007 US Open and 2008 Wimbledon were her best performances so far at the big stage.<br /><br />They will take on the winner of the Liezel Huber/Lisa Raymond vs Victoria Azarenka/Maria Kirilenko clash in the semifinals.<br /><br />In another pleasing result for India, Davis Cupper Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi advanced to the men's doubles quarter-finals with a 6-3 7-5 win over Andrey Golubev and Denis Istomin earlier in the day.<br /><br />The fifth seed Indo-Pak pair beat the Kazak-Uzbek combination in one hour and nine minutes in the third round.<br /><br />It will be the third quarter-final appearance in the last four Grand Slams for Bopanna and Qureshi.<br /><br />They will now clash against top seeded American twins Mike and Bob Bryan, who defeated Russia's Teymuraz Gabashvili and Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan 7-6 (6) 7-5 in their pre-quarterfinal match. <br /><br />Bopanna and Qureshi had lost to Bryan brothers in the US Open final last year.<br />Bopanna is the only Indian surviving in the men's doubles as the pair of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi made a shock second round exit.<br /><br />Another contest of Indian interest would be the mixed doubles quarter-final between Indo-Czech pair of Paes and Iveta Benesova and the top seeded combination of Slovakian Katarina Srebotnik and Serbian Nenad Zimonjic.</p>
<p>The seventh seed Indo-Russian pair wrapped up the quarter-final clash in one hour and six minutes after blanking the Argentine-Italian duo in the first set.<br /><br />This is for the first time that Sania has reached the women's doubles semifinals in a Grand Slam event.<br /><br />The quarter-final appearances in the 2007 US Open and 2008 Wimbledon were her best performances so far at the big stage.<br /><br />They will take on the winner of the Liezel Huber/Lisa Raymond vs Victoria Azarenka/Maria Kirilenko clash in the semifinals.<br /><br />In another pleasing result for India, Davis Cupper Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi advanced to the men's doubles quarter-finals with a 6-3 7-5 win over Andrey Golubev and Denis Istomin earlier in the day.<br /><br />The fifth seed Indo-Pak pair beat the Kazak-Uzbek combination in one hour and nine minutes in the third round.<br /><br />It will be the third quarter-final appearance in the last four Grand Slams for Bopanna and Qureshi.<br /><br />They will now clash against top seeded American twins Mike and Bob Bryan, who defeated Russia's Teymuraz Gabashvili and Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan 7-6 (6) 7-5 in their pre-quarterfinal match. <br /><br />Bopanna and Qureshi had lost to Bryan brothers in the US Open final last year.<br />Bopanna is the only Indian surviving in the men's doubles as the pair of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi made a shock second round exit.<br /><br />Another contest of Indian interest would be the mixed doubles quarter-final between Indo-Czech pair of Paes and Iveta Benesova and the top seeded combination of Slovakian Katarina Srebotnik and Serbian Nenad Zimonjic.</p>