Overview

• Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma made their first Wimbledon appearance together in a decade, watching Novak Djokovic’s round-of-16 match against Alex de Minaur from the royal box on July 7.
• Actress-influencer Avneet Kaur was also courtside that day, drawing attention to her coincident attendance with the couple.
• Kohli had addressed a spring-time Instagram controversy by calling his inadvertent ‘like’ of a fan-page image of Kaur an algorithm glitch.
• The unexpected overlap at centre court sparked a flood of memes and jokes on social media linking the outing to the past online incident.
• Negative comments targeting Sharma’s natural look prompted fans to defend her and push back against ageist scrutiny.