Reigning women's doubles champions win and losepublished at 08:16 Greenwich Mean Time 24 January
Czechs Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova had been a tightknit women's doubles pairing since they were teenagers. Together, they won seven Grand Slam titles and Olympic gold in Tokyo. Despite that success, the former world numbers ones announced they would be parting ways at the start of this year.
They've won the last two titles at Melbourne Park but today on Margaret Court Arena, they were on opposite sides of the net with their new partners in the quarter-finals. It was third seeds Siniakova and Australian Storm Hunter who prevailed, coming from a set down to beat fifth seeds Krejcikova and Germany's Laura Siegemund 4-6 7-5 6-4.
On 1573 Arena, second seeds Su-Wei Hsieh of Chinese Taipei and Elise Mertens of Belgium won 6-4 6-2 against ninth seeds Brazil's Luisa Stefani and Dutchwoman Demi Schuurs.
It means the women's and men's doubles semi-final line-ups are now set, with the men set to play their final-four matches on Rod Laver Arena on Thursday and the women taking centre stage on Friday.