Maria Sharapova maintained her impressive form to cruise through to the semi-finals of the Australian Open with an emphatic victory over fellow Russian Ekaterina Makarova.
She will face China’s Li Na, who knocked out fourth seed Agnieszka Radwanska in straight sets.
Li ended fourth seed Radwanska’s 13-match winning streak to the start of the year with a straight-sets victory that put her into the semi-finals.
In a match featuring 10 breaks of serve, the sixth seed won an unpredictable first set lasting 66 minutes and claimed five games in a row from 0-2 down to take charge of the second.