Misunderstandings : Peng Shuai denies abuse

Peng Squad (Chinese 彭帥/ 彭帅, Pinyin Peng Squad; January 8, 1986, in Xiangya, Province of Hunan) is a Chinese tennis gamer. Their greatest achievements commemorated with their two Conquest titles in Koppel, 2013 in Wimbledon and 2014 at the French Open. From February 17, 2014, she was the number 1 of the dual globe ranking list for 20 weeks.

Peng Squads smile freezes when the questions begin for their well-being and allegations against a Chinese top politician. Visually nervous, the tennis player denounces in the improvised video interview that raised allegations of a sexual assault. I have to emphasize a point that is extremely important: I never said or wrote someone's sexually attacked me. I have to find that emphatically. She feels misunderstood according to her words.

The interview of the Chinese newspaper Lianne Taobao from Singapore ensures a stir beyond the sports world on Monday. It is the first time since the controversy of controversy before one and a half months, that Peng Squad has spoken in front of the camera public and directly. The former world ranking first in a double had published a post in early November in the social network Weibo, which was understood as a reproach of a sexual assault by the former solitary office member, ex-Vice Premier Zhang Goal (75). The post office was deleted soon. Also, the state censorship had blocked every debate in the Chinese Internet.

Blurred mobile video and many misunderstandings

The video interview took place on Sunday on the edge of a ski cross-country skiing event in Shanghai, where it was among others accompanied by the Chinese basketball star Lao Ming. It was recorded with a mobile phone, is therefore a bit shaky. The 35-year-old did not ask all questions, had to knock several times and collect. In the interview, Peng Squad described her Weibo-Post as a private matter. For readers, possibly many misunderstandings have occurred, said the tennis star.

In response to the post, athletes, politicians and human rights activists from all over the world had expressed their concern for the well-being of the tennis player. Because you did not sufficient the signals from China to fate from Peng Squad, the Ladies Tour WTA started all tournaments in China and Hong Kong at the beginning of December, although China is an important donor.

Case overshadowed preparations on Olympic winter games in Beijing

The case also overshadows the preparations for the Olympic Winter Games in February in Beijing. The German President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, was under pressure after talking to the tennis star in video clients. He repeated on Saturday in a sports show interview that the IOC continues to sit on silence diplomacy in her case.

Peng Squad: Why should someone monitor me? I have always been free

Peng Squad emphasized in the interview that they live unhindered in Beijing and do not stand under supervision: Why should someone monitor me? I have always been free. Also, your e-mail to WTA boss Steve Simon from mid-November wrote you out of your own pieces. She had emphasized that the reports about her, including the allegation of sexual coercion, are not true and that it goes well. However, the writing increased the worry of the WTA rather.

When asked if you want to travel abroad, Peng Squad pointed out that they no longer actively play tennis games and because of the pandemic currently do not intend to leave China: What should I do outside now? While the questioner did not continue on the discussed allegations of the sexual assault, but she asked in detail whether Peng Squad had written her mail to the WTA. Also, she gave her extensively opportunity to emphasize that she could move freely.

The Lianne Taobao is the only Chinese-speaking newspaper from abroad, which may also be sold in China — thus also corresponds to the requirements of state censorship. Unlike over the past weeks, censorship does not step in the video interview on the Internet either. It was accessible from China. But unchanged could not find any discussions online. On hints of foreign journalists, after which the interview did not scatter the worries of the WTA, Outer Officers' spokesman Zhao Fijian said before the press only: This is not a diplomatic question.

The German Tennis star Alexander Zeal had exceeded his concern about Peng Squad on Sunday evening: I just hope you're fine. He also hopes that she was in a halfway safe situation. He also had a doubt whether she wrote her mail to the WTA from free pieces. It looks like she did not write it, but it was written for her. He hopes that hopefully soon can be on the tour again. To the Metro allegations Zeal said, We also wish that there are not such things anymore. But unfortunately they exist.