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  • Tennis The case of Peng Shuai: the head of women's tennis against the Chinese giant

Chinese tennis star

Peng Shuai

denied having accused anyone of sexual abuse, in her first statements to the press since she publicly revealed that a Communist Party charge forced her to have sex.

The complaint made in November on social media was

quickly censored in China

and aroused international consternation, with expressions of concern from the UN and world tennis stars.

But

speaking

to

Liane Zaobao,

a Chinese-language Singapore daily, the Wimbledon and French Open doubles champion denied having made the complaint.

"I want to highlight a very important point:

I never said or wrote anything accusing someone of sexually assaulting me,

" Peng, 35, said in images apparently recorded with a mobile phone at a sporting event in Shanghai.

"I would like to emphasize this point very clearly."

Peng posted on the Weibo platform, the Chinese version of Twitter, that former Deputy Prime Minister

Zhang Gaoli,

a septuagenarian, forced her to have sex in an intermittent relationship of several years.

The message was quickly deleted from the Chinese network, but screenshots were uploaded on Twitter and generated worldwide reactions.

In Zaobao's video, when asked about the message on Weibo, Peng replied that it

was a "private matter"

about which there are "many misunderstandings", without going into details.

Previously, the Chinese state press published images of Peng, including some of her at a tennis tournament.

She also posted a screenshot of an email that Peng reportedly wrote to the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) saying "everything is fine."

But that didn't ease the worry about Peng.

WTA President

Steve Simon

said he "finds it hard to believe" Peng's email and questioned whether she is free to speak openly.

Dressed in a red T-shirt and dark jacket, both with the word "China" printed on it, Peng told Zaobao that the mail was legitimate and

written "entirely of (his) own will."

In the video, a person is heard asking him if he has been under surveillance since he made the accusation, to which he replied that he had always been "free."

Hours earlier, an unverified video uploaded to the internet by an official Chinese journalist shows Peng speaking with basketball star

Yao Ming

and two other Chinese sports figures, Olympic sailing champion

Xu Lijia

and retired table tennis player

Wang Liqin. .

The WTA called for Peng's allegations to be fully investigated and

suspended all of its tournaments in China and Hong Kong.

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