India's [ Images ] Mahesh Bhupathi [ Images ] and Sweden's Jonas Bjorkman [ Images ] entered the doubles semi-finals in the USD 2.3 million Kremlin Cup ATP tennis championship in Moscow [ Images ].

The top seeded Indo-Swedish duo defeated the Swiss-German pair of Yves Allegro and Michael Kohlman in straight sets 7-5, 6-4 in the quarter-finals.

Last week Bhupathi, and partner Max Mirnyi [ Images ] of Belarus, were beaten by Israel's Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram [ Images ] in the semi-finals of the Lyon Grand Prix [ Images ] ATP tennis championship in France [ Images ].