Gates is no stranger to the celebrity match. He partnered with Andre Agassi in a 2001 doubles match against Pete Sampras and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (Gates and Agassi won in a tiebreaker), and often plays table tennis with Warren Buffett at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. He and Richard Branson also meet up to play on Branson’s private Caribbean island, exactly as one imagines billionaires do in their downtime.

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