Hingis and Mirza win women’s doubles

Sania and Martina won the first two games in the second set before losing the third but won the next two games to take a decisive 4-1 lead.

In that which was a noticed experience, Mirza-Hingis kept their nerves to get the set 7-6.

The pair only joined up at Indian Wells a year ago, but have already won 12 titles – and are now on a 36-match winning streak.

In the second women’s doubles semi-final, the Indo-Swiss pair took just under an hour to demolish the German-Czech pair 6-1, 6-0. They’ll play the Czech pair of Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka for the championship. The co-No.1s are now the holders of three of the four Grand Slams, having triumphed at Wimbledon then the US Open last summer.

“She’s an unbelievable champion and I’ve also got to know her as a person and she’s an fantastic person”, she said.

In a girls’ singles third round match, Indian 10th seed Pranjala Yadlapalli lost to Russian eighth seed Anastasia Potapova 5-7, 5-7 on Court No.20. “But for now, I’d rather have this than something else because it means I’m doing well”. “To have three slams in a row is really a dream”. The top seeds, dubbed Santina by the press, went in as firm favourites against the seventh seeds in the final at the Melbourne Park.

Raonic looked to be struggling through injury and fatigue, and called for a medical time-out before the start of the fifth.

Top seeds Sania Mirza and Ivan Dodig defeated Leander Paes and Martina Hingis 7-6, 6-3 to enter the semifinals of the Australian Open mixed doubles here on Thursday.

A European team would be heavily favored at present, with Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Roger Federer, Stan Wawrinka, Rafa Nadal and Tomas Berdych the top six ranked players in the world.

With the roof closed on Rod Laver Arena because of rain showers in the area, Williams broke Radwanska’s service to open the match and was rarely troubled in the 21-minute first set.