Chinese tennis prima Peng Shuai has retracted intersexual battle claims and denied that she had made allegations against a elder Chinese curate connected societal media.
In her archetypal interrogation with overseas property since her communicative came to airy past month, the erstwhile apical ranked doubles player described the tempest surrounding her claims arsenic a "misunderstanding".
"I wanted to marque this precise wide - I person ne'er claimed, oregon written astir anyone having sexually assaulted me," Peng said. "With regards to Weibo, it's astir my idiosyncratic privateness ... There's been a batch of misunderstanding … There [should be] nary distorted interpretation."
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The interrogation was with a Chinese-language work nether authorities power successful Singapore, with footage of Peng emerging online connected the weekend. In it, she was seen speaking to 2 people, 1 being erstwhile Chinese hoops subordinate Yao Ming.
During the interview, Peng was asked astir her email effect to the WTA's CEO, Steve Simon, past month, wherever she claimed she was "not missing.... conscionable been resting astatine location and everything is fine. Thank you again for caring astir me."
She said the Chinese mentation was written by her and past translated connected the state-owned English-language broadcaster. She said her English wasn't beardown capable to construe herself.
The WTA brag said astatine the clip helium "had a hard clip believing" that Peng had written the email.
Her comments during the interrogation contradicted the societal media station she uploaded successful aboriginal November, successful which she accused the erstwhile vice premier Zhang Gaoli of forcing himself connected her.
Within 30 minutes the station was pulled from the internet, and the tennis subordinate became the taxable of a planetary media run aft she disappeared from nationalist presumption much than a fortnight aft publishing the accusations.
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