If the tennis was not dramatic enough, the VIP section provided its own entertainment with an array of celebrities, actors, and sports stars descending on Melbourne Park.
Enjoying front row seats were Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and partner Jodie Haydon, Tennis Australia Chair Jayne Hrdlicka and legend of the game Rod Laver.
In the row directly behind, Hollywood star Eric Bana and wife Rebecca sat alongside Hugh Jackman’s actor ex Deborra-Lee Furness and The Mentalist star Simon Baker.
But it was a mystery baby-faced tennis fan unassumingly sitting among the star-studded pack who set tongues wagging.
Many thought the young man wedged between Furness and Bana was British internet personality and musician Wilbur Soot.
Others speculated it was Eric and Rebecca Bana’s rarely spotted son Klaus, an emerging filmmaker.
Sources told news.com.au that the young man was actually Josh Dainty, the son of a good friend of Furness.
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