India's Sania Mirza and her Romanian partner Horia Tecau stormed into the semi-finals of the mixed doubles event at the Australian Open with straight sets victory over Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and Julia Georges, here on Thursday.
Sixth seed Sania and Tecau hardly broke a sweat to prevail over the unseeded Aisam-Julia combination 6-3, 6-4 in their quarter-final clash that lasted just 63 minutes. The Indo-Romanian duo will play Australian pair of Jarmila Gajdosova and Matthew Ebden in the semi-finals.
The unseeded Australian pair stunned second seeds Katarina Srebotnik of Sloivakia and India's Rohan Bopanna 7-5, 6-3 in another quarter-final yesterday. Sania and Tecau got three opportunities to break their opponents in the opening set, out of which they converted one, which was enough for the Indo-Romanian pair to pocket the set in 28 minutes.Read more..
Source: Sports News
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