[caption id="attachment_5784" align="alignnone" width="580"]Sania---Ivan-Dodig Sania Mirza and Ivan Dodig reached the semi finals of Australian Open mixed doubles . Image Source : twitter@AustralianOpen[/caption] Melbourne: Defending champions Leander Paes and Martina Hingis were shown the exit by Sania Mirza and Ivan Dodig in the mixed doubles quarter finals . The top seeded Indo-Croat pair defeated Leander and Martina 7-6 (1) , 6-3 to reach the last four  on Thursday . It took Sania and Dodig 73 minutes to win the match where Paes and Hingis looked totally out of rhythm. Earlier, Mirza and Dodig defeated Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and Yaroslava Shvedova 7-5, 6-2 in one hour and eight minutes. On the other other hand, the Indo-Swiss pair beat Jean-Julien Rojer and Sloane Stephens 6-1, 6-2 to set up a quarterfinal clash between the favourites.