Top seeds Mahesh Bhupathi [ Images ] of India [ Images ] and Max Mirnyi [ Images ] of Belarus were ousted in the quarter-finals of the men's doubles in the ATP Masters tennis tournament in Monte Carlo, Monaco, on Thursday.

The Indo-Belarussian pair lost to seventh seeds Gaston Etlis and Martin Rodriguez of Argentina 4-6, 6-7(5/7).

In other quarter-final matches, Britain's Tim Henman [ Images ] and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia and Montenegro beat Chile's Fernando Gonzalez [ Images ] and Nicolas Massu [ Images ] 7-6(7), 6-4; fourth seeds Mark Knowles [ Images ] of the Bahamas and Daniel Nestor [ Images ] of Canada [ Images ] beat eight seeds Jared Palmer of the United States and Pavel Vizner of the Czech Republic 6-3, 6-4, and fifth seeds Martin Damm [ Images ] and Cyril Suk of the Czech Republic beat second seeds Jonas Bjorkman [ Images ] of Sweden and Todd Woodbridge of Australia [ Images ] 6-3, 7-6(5).

In the semi-finals, Eltis/Rodrigues play Knowles/Nestor while Damm/Suk take on Henman/Zimonjic.