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

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 of Belarus, were beaten by Israel's Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram in the semi-finals of the Lyon Grand Prix ATP tennis championship in France.