Indian ace Leander Paes [ Images ] and his Czech Republic partner Martin Damm [ Images ] stormed into the final of the men's doubles at the Australian Open [ Images ] on Thursday.

The seventh seeds proved too good for Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski of Poland in the semi-finals, winning 6-2, 6-4.

They will take on top seeds Bob and Mike Bryan [ Images ] of the United States, who got the better of fourth seeds Paul Hanley [ Images ] of Australia [ Images ] and Kevin Ullyett of Zimbabwe 6-3, 6-4 in the other semi-final.

Paes and Damm had upset second seeds Jonas Bjorkman [ Images ] of Sweden and Max Mirnyi [ Images ] in the quarter-finals.

Paes continued his winning run by booking a semi-final berth in the mixed doubles.

He teamed with Nathalie Dechy [ Images ] of France [ Images ] to trounce Frantisek Cermak of the Czech Republic and Anna Lena Groenefeld of Germany [ Images ] 6-1, 7-6 (7/4) in a one hour and 17 minutes quarter-final that followed his men's doubles match.

The Indo-French pair will play sixth seeds Daniel Nestor [ Images ] of Canada [ Images ] and Elena Likhovtseva of Russia [ Images ] for a place in the final.

Meanwhile, Mahesh Bhupathi [ Images ] and Martina Hingis [ Images ] also reached the mixed doubles semi-finals, beating Todd Perry and Rennae Stubbs [ Images ].

Bhupathi and Hingis won 7-5, 7-6 (7/5) to set up a semi-final meeting with Paul Hanley and Samantha Stosur [ Images ].