<p>Sania Mirza and Leander Paes are on course for a Australian Open showdown as they reached the mixed doubles semifinals with their respectice partners here on Wednesday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>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 53 minutes.<br /><br />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. <br /><br />Sania and Soares await winners the match between third seeds Kristina Mladenovic/ Daniel Nestor and fifth seeds Cara Black/ Juan Sebastian Cabal. <br />Paes and Hingis will face either Taipei’s Su-Wei Hsieh and Pablo Cuevas from Uruguay or Katarina Srebotnik from Slovakia and Marcelo Melo from Brazil.<br /><br />Meanwhile, in the boys singles, Sumit Nagal’s campaign ended with a 1-6, 1-6 defeat against Marc Polmans in the third round.</p>
<p>Sania Mirza and Leander Paes are on course for a Australian Open showdown as they reached the mixed doubles semifinals with their respectice partners here on Wednesday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>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 53 minutes.<br /><br />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. <br /><br />Sania and Soares await winners the match between third seeds Kristina Mladenovic/ Daniel Nestor and fifth seeds Cara Black/ Juan Sebastian Cabal. <br />Paes and Hingis will face either Taipei’s Su-Wei Hsieh and Pablo Cuevas from Uruguay or Katarina Srebotnik from Slovakia and Marcelo Melo from Brazil.<br /><br />Meanwhile, in the boys singles, Sumit Nagal’s campaign ended with a 1-6, 1-6 defeat against Marc Polmans in the third round.</p>