Top seeds Mahesh Bhupathi [ Images ] and Mark Knowles [ Images ] 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 [ Images ].

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