In the Australian Open Tennis tournament at Melbourne, the sixth seeded Indo-Russian pair of Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina will today clash with the Russian duo of Svetlana Kuznetsova and Vera Zvonareva in the Women's Doubles semi-finals. <br/><br/>Sania and Elena, yesterday, stunned the second seeded American pair of Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond 6-3, 5-7, 7-6.<br/><br/>The Indian challenge will also play in the Men's Doubles quarterfinal, Mixed Doubles quarterfinal and Mixed Doubles pre-quarterfinal matches today.<br/><br/>In Men's Doubles Quarterfinals, the Indo-Czech pair of Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek will take on the American-Brazilian combine of Eric Butorac and Bruno Soares, while in the Mixed Doubles, the Indian pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza will meet the English-American combine of Colin Fleming and Liezel Huber for a place in the semi-finals.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, in the Mixed Doubles pre-quarterfinals, the Indo-Russian pair of Leander Paes and Elena Vesnina will lock horns with Marcin Matkowski of Poland and his partner from Chinese Taipie Su-Wei Hsieh.<br/><br/>Top seeds like Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Petra Kvitova and Maria Sharapova will also play their respective Singles quarterfinal matches today.
News On AIR | January 25, 2012 9:25 AM
Aus Open: Sania-Elena to play Women's Doubles semifinal<br/><br/>