{"id":492135,"date":"2026-02-20T09:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/492135\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T09:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:50:08","slug":"aussie-tennis-player-forced-to-run-for-cover-as-bees-swarm-bengaluru-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/492135\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie tennis player forced to run for cover as bees swarm Bengaluru stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"wcl-news-perex\" itemprop=\"description\">The S.M. Krishna tennis stadium \u2060was abuzz with more than aces and winners \u200cas players and spectators alike had \u200cto run for cover \u200cas a swarm of \u200choney bees invaded the arena \u200cduring the ITF Bengaluru Open, Indian media reports said \u200con Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Play was temporarily \u2060suspended \u200cas an official spotted the honey \u200bbees and alerted the players and the \u200bchair umpire during the round of 16 clash between Australian \u2060top \u200bseed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/gibson-talia\/8GwNXON6\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Talia Gibson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/yamalapalli-sahaja\/UZAhfYfD\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sahaja Yamalapalli<\/a>, prompting everyone to exit the court.<\/p>\n<p>The stadium in \u200cthe 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 \u200ctrees spread across nearly 200 \u200bacres.<\/p>\n<p>The W100 ITF tour \u200cmatch resumed a short time later, with Gibson blanking out Yamalapalli <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/match\/tennis\/gibson-t-8GwNXON6\/yamalapalli-s-UZAhfYfD\/?mid=WIC8zwc4\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">6-0 6-0 in less than an \u2060hour<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The S.M. Krishna tennis stadium \u2060was abuzz with more than aces and winners \u200cas players and spectators alike&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-492135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}