In the women's draw, Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka will meet in the final after coming through their semis.
Sharapova reached her first final of the year with an impressive comeback as she saw off German Andrea Petkovic 3-6 6-0 6-2.
The Russian former world number one made a slow start to her semi-final, setting the tone for the first set by double-faulting three times in her opening service game as 21st-seeded Petkovic pulled ahead.
However, Sharapova rallied emphatically, cutting out the errors as she reeled off 11 successive games to take the second set to love and put her in command in the third.
Petkovic won two games at the end of the final set but by then it was too late and Sharapova saw out the match to progress to her third Miami final.
The victory brought Sharapova a measure of revenge for her defeat by Petkovic at the Australian Open, which had been followed by the German's now customary 'Petko Dance' in celebration.
"I sensed that she was tired - probably a lot of the dancing that she has been doing," Sharapova joked. "And I took advantage of it."
Petkovic admitted: "By the end of the second set I was getting frustrated with myself because I felt my energy slowly slipping away.
"A champion like Maria, she just feels any kind of weakness, and she just played much, much better."
Azarenka, the 2009 champion, destroyed world number three Vera Zvonareva 6-0 6-3 in the second semi-final.
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