Aussie tennis player forced to run for cover as bees swarm Bengaluru stadium

[p]Play was temporarily ⁠suspended ‌as an official spotted the honey ​bees and alerted the players and the ​chair umpire during the round of 16 clash between Australian ⁠top ​seed [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/gibson-talia/8GwNXON6/"]Talia Gibson[/a] and [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/yamalapalli-sahaja/UZAhfYfD/"]Sahaja Yamalapalli[/a], prompting everyone to exit the court.[/p][p]The stadium in ‌the southern state of Karnataka, which also hosted the Davis Cup qualifier tie between India and the Netherlands this month, is located within the Cubbon Park, which has over 8,000 ‌trees spread across nearly 200 ​acres.[/p][p]The W100 ITF tour ‌match resumed a short time later, with Gibson blanking out Yamalapalli [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/tennis/gibson-t-8GwNXON6/yamalapalli-s-UZAhfYfD/?mid=WIC8zwc4"]6-0 6-0 in less than an ⁠hour[/a].[/p][embed guid="ae7a2230-6f03-480a-9fc0-e9a0b8c41daf" url="https://x.com/TOIBengaluru/status/2024446101743686053" social-type="twitter" /][embed guid="699a5aac-87f2-4800-8b89-bbe5c4302b05" url="https://x.com/stfukarran/status/2024374587635749103" social-type="twitter" /]