WTA tournaments to China in 2023 will hinge on a resolution to Peng Shuai issue. Peng accused former Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli of sexual assault in 2021. WTA has received confirmation Peng is safe and comfortable. The Peng Shuai controversy must be resolved before the WTA tournaments can return to China in 2023, according to the … Read more
BEIJING: With his clean record and the austere air of a Chinese Communist Party cadre, nothing seemed to indicate Zhang Gaoli would, at the age of 75, find himself embroiled in a sex scandal with global repercussions. The former vice-premier (2013-18) has been accused by tennis champion Peng Shuai — in a message promptly censored … Read more
BEIJING: Chinese state media posted videos Sunday purporting to show tennis star Peng Shuai smiling and well, as international pressure mounted for information about her whereabouts. The two-time Grand Slam doubles champion has not been seen publicly since alleging earlier this month that former vice premier Zhang Gaoli, now in his 70s, “forced” her into … Read more
