It is a matter which continues to strongly agitate the world of tennis. At the beginning of November, the former Chinese tennis champion, Peng shuai, denounced on a social network having been the victim of sexual assault on the part of the former vice-premier of the People’s Republic of China, Zhang Gaoli. Since then, the appearances of the player are rare. After several weeks without news from her, the government finally informed that the player was safe. Information that nobody really believed and the concern continues to grow a little more every day, creating a very complex situation on the diplomatic level.
Sunday, December 19, 2021, a media broadcast a video where we can see Peng Shuai answering some questions and his speech is very far from the accusations made in early November … “First, I want to stress a very important point: I never said or wrote that someone had sexually assaulted me”, she told Singaporean newspaper Lianhe Zaobao, a Chinese-language daily but inaccessible in China. Subsequently, the former 35-year-old sportswoman explains that there was “a lot of misunderstandings” on a case “private order “.
In the video, the former world number 1 in women’s doubles also indicates that she lives well in Beijing, without surveillance. Earlier today, Qingqing Chen, media reporter Global Times, tweeted a video where Peng Shuai can be seen chatting with national hero Yao Ming, a former basketball player who played in the NBA. The two former athletes had come to attend a ski competition. A communication which obviously did not convince the Association of Tennis Players (WTA), which reaffirmed Monday its “worry” concerning the fate of Peng Shuai.