{"id":44442,"date":"2021-11-03T19:45:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T19:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44442"},"modified":"2024-08-14T17:21:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T17:21:06","slug":"a-sex-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44442","title":{"rendered":"A sex scandal: Peng Shuai and Zhang Gaoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_8109.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-44443 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_8109-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/china-tennis-star-peng-says-ex-vice-premier-forced-her-into-sex-2021-11-03\/\">Reuters reports<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;BEIJING, Nov 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Former world No.1 tennis doubles player Peng Shuai, one of China&#8217;s biggest sporting stars, has publicly accused a former Chinese vice premier of forcing her into sex several years ago in a social media post that was later deleted.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<em>Chinese tennis star accuses former vice-premier of #MeToo abuse<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/03\/tennis-star-peng-shuai-accuses-chinese-communist-party-official-zhang-gaoli-of-sexual-assault\">headlined <em>the Guardian<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\uff5e <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46404\"><span lang=\"zh-Hans\">\u90d1\u94a6\u6587\u7684\u8d62 \u5f6d\u5e05\u7684\u8f93<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The VP in question is Zhang Gaoli (\u5f20\u9ad8\u4e3d <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zhang_Gaoli\">1946<\/a>&#8211; ). Peng (\u5f6d\u5e05 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peng_Shuai\">1986<\/a>-) had achieved doubles ranking #1 in 2014. She never won a grand slam in singles. I remembered her the best was her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=39367\">semi final at US Open<\/a>, against Caroline Wozniacki, refusing to retire. I thought it wasn&#8217;t fair and sportsmanlike. And, it was totally not cool. &#8230; SO, USTA was willing to bend the rule for her in 2014 but now, merely seven years later, in 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/media-telecom\/china-editor-says-he-does-not-think-peng-faces-retribution-2021-11-19\/\">is willing to pull out of China<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>2021<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>12.20,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-59723676\">Peng denied making assault claim<\/a><\/li>\n<li>12.18,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44550\">Chinese city\u2019s tennis ambitions imperilled by Peng scandal<\/a><\/li>\n<li>12.07, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-59556613\">US diplomats to boycott 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics<\/a><\/li>\n<li>12.03, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\/news\/2384758\/steve-simon-announces-wta-s-decision-to-suspend-tournaments-in-china\">WTA&#8217;s decision to suspend tournaments in China<\/a><\/li>\n<li>11.20, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=12790\">Serena<\/a> Williams:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tennisuptodate.com\/wta\/we-must-not-stay-silent-serena-williams-speaks-out-on-shuai-peng?fbclid=IwAR1NYJtzkfwCBIjiJbkMT9NviUCuNYtR9rSVRq1QOZy7twP_RCiVXBzIDUs\">&#8220;We must not stay silent.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>11.20, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/11\/18\/china\/wta-ceo-peng-shuai-steve-simon-intl-hnk\/index.html\">cnn<\/a>\/UN calls for proof of Chinese tennis star&#8217;s whereabouts<\/li>\n<li>11.19, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/media-telecom\/china-editor-says-he-does-not-think-peng-faces-retribution-2021-11-19\/\">Reuters<\/a>:\u00a0WTA threatens to pull tennis tournaments out of China over Peng<\/li>\n<li>11.06,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UPY1kLhpUaU\">15:27<\/a>\u00a0long post on YouTube, explaining why Peng came out with her accusation: all political struggle for power.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_2726.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-44533 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_2726-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230; and yes, WTA pulled out of China in 2022, may return in 2023, per CEO Steve Simon.<\/p>\n<p>~ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2021\/dec\/02\/steve-simon-the-wta-boss-placing-principle-ahead-of-profit-in-standing-up-to-china\">Guardian<\/a>: WTA boss placing principle ahead of profit in standing up to China<br \/>\n~ <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6120361\/peng-shuai-missing-steve-simon-wta-interview\/\">Time<\/a>: His Fight for a Chinese Star<br \/>\n~ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/tv\/2021\/12\/02\/amanpour-peng-shuai-steve-simon-wta-china-tennis.cnn\">cnn<\/a>:\u00a0IOC&#8217;s call with Peng Shuai &#8216;very much orchestrated&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>#WhereIsPengShuai<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters reports\u00a0&#8220;BEIJING, Nov 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Former world No.1 tennis doubles player Peng Shuai, one of China&#8217;s biggest sporting stars, has publicly accused a former Chinese vice premier of forcing her into sex several years ago in a social media post that was later deleted.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0Chinese tennis star accuses former vice-premier of #MeToo abuse, headlined the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}