Sania, Paes to face each other in Australian Open quarters

Indian tennis superstars Sania Mirza and Leander Paes will be facing each other in the quarter-finals of the Australian Open's mixed doubles event.

The top seeded pair of Sania and Croatian Ivan Dodig sailed past the unseeded Kazakh-Pakistani duo of Yaroslava Shvedova and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi 7-5, 6-2 in a match that lasted one hour and eight minutes.

On the other hand, Paes and Sania's women's doubles partner Martina Hingis clinched a comfortable win against the American-Dutch pair of Sloane Stephens and Jean-Julien Rojer, defeating them 6-1, 6-2.