Top seeds Mahesh Bhupathi [Images] and Mark Knowles booked their place in the semifinals of the Regions Morgan Keegan Tennis Championships in Memphis with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Igor Kunitsyn and Jeff Thomas on Thursday.

- Bhupathi sticks to his stand against Paes

Bhupathi-Knowles are through to their second semifinal of 2008 having reached the last four at the Australian Open.

The duo will face Chris Haggard of South Africa and Jurgen Melzer of Austria in the semi-finals.