Australia's Talia Gibson and India's Sahaja Yamalapalli were in the midst of their second-round match of the W100 Bengaluru in India when they suddenly fled from the court.
The philanthropist made the announcement on Thursday, after having earlier confirmed his participation in a prominent artificial intelligence summit in India.
India's AI Impact Summit got off to a rocky start as Bill Gates abruptly backed out of his keynote address amid public backlash over his ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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