Leander Paes [Images] and Martina Navratilova stormed into the final of the French Open mixed doubles tennis championship with a straight sets win over Samantha Stosur and Paul Hanley [Images] of Australia [Images] in Paris on Thursday.

The sixth seed Indo-USA pair got the better of the unseeded Australians, winning 6-2, 6-3 to keep alive their hopes of a third Grand Slam title together.

The duo had won the Australian Open [Images] and Wimbledon [Images] title in 2003.

They will now face the winner of the other semi-final between Daniela Hantuchova [Images] of Slovakia/Fabrice Santoro of France [Images] and fourth seed Anastasia Myskina [Images] of Russia [Images]/Jonas Bjorkman of Sweden.

In the quarter-finals, Paes and Navratilova had beaten Corina Morariu and Jared Palmer of US 7-6 (7/5), 4-6, 6-3.

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