The Indian skipper, Virat Kohli gave a grand finishing touch to his memorable tour of Australia this summer with his team by attending a game of ace Tennis star Novak Djokovic in the ongoing Australian Open tournament. Visiting the Melbourne Park with actress wife Anushka Sharma, Kohli also got to meet Swiss tennis star Roger Federer and posed for photographs with the icon who is defending his 2018 title in the year’s first Grand Slam.
Kohli and Anushka visited to watch Australian Open a day after India outplayed Australia in the third ODI in Melbourne to win the three-game series 2-1. They lost the first match in Sydney but won two on the trot to register their first-ever bilateral series victory on the Australian soil in the 50-over format. The ODI series victory came a week after Kohli’s men beat Australia 2-1 in a three-Test series.
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Virat later tweeted his photos with Anushka Sharma and the duo’s with the Federer and captioning it, “An amazing way to finish the Australian summer”. The Indian skipper will now lead India in a five-match ODI series and three-match T20I series in New Zealand, taking yet another step in the run-up to the World Cup due in England in May-July.
What a day at the Australian open. ❤😍👌👌 An amazing way to finish the Australian summer. Forever grateful🙏😇❤#ausopen pic.twitter.com/fqOiekjH3F
— Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) January 19, 2019
Federer will be locking horns with Greece’s Stephanos Tsitsipas at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena in the Round of 16 on Sunday. On Saturday, Serbian Djokovic defeated Canada’s Dennis Shapovalov 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 6-0 in the third round to advance to the fourth round. His next opponent in the Round of 16 is Russian Daniil Medvedev who he will meet on Monday.
On the cricketing field, MS Dhoni scored three back-to-back half-centuries India lifted the ODI trophy and bagged the man of the series award. Though he was criticized even after scoring a fifty in the first ODI in Sydney, MS came back strongly with two unbeaten half-century knocks in Adelaide and Melbourne to transform the brickbats into bouquets overnight.
