Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi sealed a semifinal place in the World Tour finals for the first time in their careers after beating Wesley Moodie and Dick Norman 6-4, 6-4 to grab the last available spot.They had qualified for the season-ending finale after six years and have cleared the round-robin stage for the first time, having failed in 2003 and 2004.

They ended runners-up in Group B and will take on Group A winners Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski of Poland in the fight for the final.

In the second semi-final, defending champions and American twins Bob and Mike Bryan will meet the winners of Group B, Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic.

Bhupathi conceded the Pole pair is tough to beat but exuded confidence of maintaining their supremacy over them.

"(They) are obviously playing their best tennis of the year. They won the group, but we've beaten them every time we've played them this season. It's going to be a good game