Australian Open: Rampaging Sania Mirza enters pre-quarters in 2 events

New Delhi: Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza continues her red hot form and advances to pre-quarters in both women's doubles and mixed doubles events on Saturday in Melbourne.

In women's doubles, top-seeded Sania and Martina Hingis beat the Ukrainian duo of Lyudmyla Kichenok and Nadiia Kichenok in straight sets 6-2 6-3.

Then, the 29-year-old partnered with Croatian Ivan Dodig to end Australians Ajla Tomljanovic and Nick Kyrgios' mixed doubles campaign with a 7-5 6-1 win.

Sania and Martina will next face the Russian-Italian team of Svetlana Kuznetsova and Roberta Vinci. In the mixed draw, the top seeds will play the Kazakh-Pakistani pair of Yaroslava Shvedova and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi.