Leander Paes and partner Martina Hingis will square off against Sania Mirza and Ivan Dodig in the final of the mixed doubles event in the French Open after the both teams completed victories in the semi-finals on Thursday.
Paes and Hingis brushed past the sixth-seeded pair of Andrea Hlavackova and Edouard Roger-Vasselin, defeating them 6-3, 3-6, 10-7. Mirza and Dodig, ranked second in the competition, also defeated the French pair of Kristina Mladenovic and Pierre-Hugues Herbert in their semi-final.
Elsewhere, both Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams fought off fierce battles to book their spots in the semi-finals. Djokovic fought off a challenge from Tomas Berdych to win 6-3 7-5 6-3 while Williams lost the first set against the unseeded Yulia Putintseva but came back to win the match 5-7 6-4 6-1.
Dominic Thiem defeated good friend David Goffin in a scintillating men's semi-final clash to set up a semi-final clash with Djokovic. Goffin won the first set 6-4 but went on to lose the next three sets, going down 7-6 6-4 6-1.
The biggest upset of the day was reserved for the women's singles quarter-finals where unseeded Kiki Bertens defeated eighth seeded Timea Bacsinszky 7-5 6-2 to become the first Dutch woman in 45 years to reach the French Open semi-finals. Bertens will meet Serena Williams in the semi-finals.
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