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Montevideo, November 22nd 2024 - 13:18 UTC

Tag: Peng Shuai

  • Thursday, December 2nd 2021 - 09:37 UTC

    Tennis player Peng Shuai mystery: WTA suspends all WTA tournaments in China and Hong Kong

    “I don’t see how I can ask our athletes to compete there when Peng Shuai is not allowed to communicate freely,” said Steve Simon

    The president of the Women's Tennis Association, WTA, Steve Simon announced on Wednesday “the immediate suspension of all WTA tournaments in China, including Hong Kong,” as a result of the situation with Chinese ex-player Peng Shuai who had been disappeared for weeks and later confirmed she was “fine” in what seemed an official tailored statement, following on global interest about what happened to the former number one player of the world.

  • Saturday, November 27th 2021 - 09:10 UTC

    China's best tennis player sexually abused, censored and disappeared by the Communist Party

    Peng wrote to the 75-year-old Zhang: “Why did you have to come back to me, took me to your home to force me to have sex with you?

    By Yan Bennett and John Garrick – Chinese tennis star, Peng Shuai's apparent disappearance may have ended with a smattering of public events, which were carefully curated by state-run media and circulated in online clips. But many questions remain about the three weeks in which she was missing, and concerns linger over her well-being.