Tennis Body On Ex-No.1 Player's Assault Charge Against Chinese Politician
Paris: Tennis star Peng Shuai's claims that she was physically attacked by an amazing Chinese legislator "should be explored completely, decently, straightforwardly and without control," the top of the WTA said Sunday.
Peng, an ex-world number one duplicates player, purportedly made the case about previous bad habit head Zhang Gaoli in a post on the Twitter-like Weibo recently.
"The new occasions in China concerning a WTA player, Peng Shuai, are of profound concern," said WTA director Steve Simon.
"We anticipate that this issue should be taken care of appropriately, which means the claims should be explored completely, reasonably, straightforwardly and without control