Sania Mirza-Cara Black in BNP Paribas Open women’s doubles final

Indian Wells, California: India’s Sania Mirza and her Zimbabwean partner Cara Black stormed into the women’s doubles final at the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament here.

The fifth seeded Sania-Clara pair Thursday won 6-4, 3-6, 10-7 against the eighth seeded duo of Czech Lucie Hradecka and Chinese Jie Zheng.

Sania and Clara will now face the winner of the other semi-final between top seed Su-Wei Hsieh of Chinese Taipei and Chinese Shuai Peng and the wild card pair of Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia and Samantha Stosur of Australia.