Published 23:35 IST, January 30th 2020
Saiyami Kher asks why 'commentators behaving like Manjrekar' after Roger Federer's loss
Saiyami Kher asked why commentators were behaving like Sanjay Manjrekar after Roger Federer lost to Novak Djokovic in the semi finals of the Australian Open.
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Saiyami Kher is an actor and is associated with some of leing filmmakers of country, but word ‘sport’ features before ‘student of craft of acting’ in her Twitter bio. It was only recently that she bowled cricketers over with her batting skills, but apart from that, she is also a fan of Roger Federer. Mirzya star combined both sports when tennis legend got kcked out by long-time rival vak Djokovic in Australian Open semi-finals on Thursday.
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She wondered why commentators were behaving like Sanjay Manjrekar and only speaking negatively about Roger Federer. For unversed, former Team India batsman keeps making helines for his style of commentary. Some of his comments on air often attract trolls too, and even off-air ones like calling Ravindra Jeja ‘bits & pieces’ cricketer h become a big controversy.
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Saiyami was only venting out her pain to see 20-time Grand Slam winner struggled throughout match, calling it ‘heartbreaking’. She, however, consoled herself and legend’s fans all around, about Federer making it to semi-finals of a Grand Slam even at of 38. Mauli star ded that he was only one for whom she watches game with passion.
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Djokovic beat Federer in straight sets, 7-6, 6-4, 6-3, without breaking much sweat. This was unlike some nail-biting encounters between two, like five-setter tie-breaker at Wimbledon last year. Serbian awaits winner of Dominic Thiem and Alexander Zverev match, in final.
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Meanwhile, Saiyami Kher is next set to work in Anurag Kashyap’s next. She is paired opposite Malayalam actor Roshan Maw in movie. actor is also one of members of Abhishek Bachchan-starrer Brea 2.
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23:35 IST, January 30th 2020