Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai has told a French newspaper that international concern over her well-being is based on 'an enormous misunderstanding' and she denied having accused a high-ranking Chinese official of sexual assault.
The 35-year-old doubles player, who once partnered Sania Mirza, said that she never said or wrote of having been sexually assaulted, despite a November social media post attributed to her that accused former vice-premier Zhang Gaoli of having forced her into sex.
China criticised the WTA's decision to suspend all its tournaments in the country due to concerns surrounding the whereabouts of former Grand Slam doubles champion Peng Shuai.
The three-time Olympian and former Wimbledon champion was shown standing beside a court, waving and signing oversize commemorative tennis balls for children.
Peng Shuai has not been seen in public since she accused a former top government official of sexual assault purportedly sent an email claiming she was safe and that the allegation was false.
China's former Wimbledon doubles champion Peng Shuai has been unheard of since she accused a senior politician of rape earlier last month.
After comfortably winning the first set, the Indo-Chinese duo slumped to a shocking 6-2, 1-6, 5-10 defeat at the hands of Swiss star Martina Hingis and Chan Yung-Jan of China.
The third-seeded Indo-Chinese pair of Sania and Peng came from a set down to beat fifth-seeded Czech pair of Barbora Strycova and Katerina Siniakov 4-6 6-2 10-7 in the quarterfinals.
Melbourne: Second-seeded Maria Sharapova is through to the Australian Open quarterfinals after a 6-3, 6-0 win over China's Peng Shuai on Sunday, setting up another Grand Slam meeting with Eugenie Bouchard.Peng, playing with her usual
Singapore: In their last match together, Cara Black and Sania Mirza cruised to the doubles title at the WTA Finals with an authoritative 6-1, 6-0 win over defending champions Peng Shuai and Hsieh Su-Wei on
NEW YORK : Serena Williams overwhelmed 17th-seeded Ekaterina Makarova of Russia 6-1, 6-3 in the semifinals Friday to extend her U.S. Open winning streak to 20 matches. If Williams can make that 21 in a
NEW YORK :Caroline Wozniacki won her U.S. Open semifinal Friday when Peng Shuai retired because of heat illness. Wozniacki was up a set and a break on an extremely humid afternoon when Peng stumbled to
NEW YORK : Peng Shuai upset fourth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska, the first top-10 player knocked out of this year's U.S. Open. The 39th-ranked Peng won 6-3, 6-4 in the second round Wednesday, giving China a big
PARIS: Top-seeded Peng Shuai of China and Hsieh Su-wei of Taiwan won their second Grand Slam title together by defeating Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci of Italy 6-4, 6-1 in the women's doubles final at
Wimbledon, June 27: Former champion Maria Sharapova reached the Wimbledon quarterfinals Monday for the first time in five years, beating Peng Shuai 6-4, 6-2 on a sweltering day that featured the appearance of Prince William
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