India’s Sania Mirza and her Ukrainian partner Nadiia Kichenok entered the women’s doubles semi-finals of the Adelaide International 1 WTA event after beating American Shelby Rogers and Heather Watson of Great Britain in a hard-fought contest here on Thursday.

Sania and Nadiia got the better of their rivals 6-0, 1-6, 10-5 in a quarter-final tie that lasted 55 minutes. The Indo-Ukranian duo will now face Australia combination of Ashleigh Barty and Storm Sanders in the Last-4 round of the WTA 500 event.