{"id":480990,"date":"2026-02-21T01:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T01:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/480990\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T01:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T01:51:08","slug":"tennis-players-run-for-cover-after-bees-invade-stadium-in-wild-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/480990\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis players run for cover after bees invade stadium in wild scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian top seed Talia Gibson and\u00a0India\u2019s\u00a0Sahaja Yamalapalli sprinted off the court in the middle of their second-round match at the W100 Bengaluru Open on Thursday after a swarm of bees invaded the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Both tennis players paused play as a ball boy pointed at the insects across the court at S.M. Krishna Tennis Stadium in India and alerted the umpire.<\/p>\n<p>Gibson and Yamalapalli, as well as the ball boy and ball girl, ran for cover. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Tribune, which is covering this event \u2013 the KPB Trust ITF W100 Women&#8217;s Open \u2013 can confirm that this was an attack by bees at the SM Krishna Tennis Stadium in Bengaluru. <\/p>\n<p>The game between Sahaja Yamalapalli and Talia Gibson resumed soon, with the latter winning 6-0, 6-0 and\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DYdSR3jEQI\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/DYdSR3jEQI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 India Sports Tribune (@insportstribune) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/insportstribune\/status\/2024426610502623410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The umpire hurried down from the chair and followed them to safety.<\/p>\n<p>Other<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TOIBengaluru\/status\/2024446101743686053?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> photos <\/a>show spectators fleeing from their seats amidst the chaos. <\/p>\n<p>A ball boy is seen pointing at a swarm of bees invading the stadium during the second-round match between Australia\u2019s Talia Gibson and\u00a0India\u2019s\u00a0Sahaja Yamalapalli during the W100 Bengaluru Open on February 19, 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s Talia Gibson and\u00a0India\u2019s\u00a0Sahaja Yamalapalli sprinted off the court in the middle of their second-round match after a swarm of bees invaded the stadium during the W100 Bengaluru Open in India on Thursday, February 19, 2026.  ITF<\/p>\n<p>The ITF Women\u2019s World Tour match was temporarily suspended for 20 minutes. <\/p>\n<p>Gibson went on to win in straight sets, 6-0, 6-0, to advance to the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>The stadium is located within Cubbon Park, which has over 8,000 trees spread across nearly 200 acres.<\/p>\n<p>Talia Gibson of Australia at the 2026 Australian Open at Melbourne Park in January 2026.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Sahaja Yamalapalli of India in action during the Billie Jean King Cup playoffs in Bengaluru, India, in November 2025.   NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Gibson won her first title of the season, defeating Nao Hibino, 6-3, 7-6, in the final at W75 Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p>Yamalapalli is currently India\u2019s No. 1 women\u2019s singles tennis player.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian top seed Talia Gibson and\u00a0India\u2019s\u00a0Sahaja Yamalapalli sprinted off the court in the middle of their second-round match&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[5706,99,1625,428],"class_list":["post-480990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-bees","tag-sports","tag-sports-entertainment","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}