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Defending champions Sania Mirza and Cara Black put up yet another commanding performance to outclass Jelena Jankovic and Arantxa Parra Santonja 6-3, 6-2 and reach the final of the WTA Toray Pan Pacific Open, in Tokyo, on Friday.
The top seeded Indo-Zimbabwean pair needed only 63 minutes to overcome the unseeded Serbian-Spanish combo in the semi-finals of the $1,000,000 hard-court event.
Sania-Cara won 24 of the 30 first service points, and surrendered serve only once while saving four break chances.
Jelena-Arantxa could capitalise on only one of the five chances they got in the contest.
Sania-Cara will now take on the winners of the other semi-final between the second seeded American pair of Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears and fourth seeds Spaniards Garbiñe Muguruza and Carla Suarez Navarro.
From Tokyo, Sania will fly straight to Incheon in Korea to compete in the Asian Games.