Tennis return to China: And Peng Shuai is still gone

The most important question remains unanswered. It is not known exactly where Peng Shuai is and how she is doing. In November 2021, she – the former number one in the doubles world rankings – accused a high-ranking Chinese politician of sexual abuse on the Chinese network Weibo, then disappeared from the scene. She showed up for the Beijing Winter Olympics in February 2022, the French sports daily reported The Team an interview and was once conducted by the world public, shortly thereafter she was again untraceable. Free travel, free communication and free opinion do not seem to be possible for her even a year and a half after her publications.