Peng

emmsie69 · Top national player

Peng

Christine · Intermediate Club Player

The danger is she will be forgotten by the rest of the world

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Christine wrote:
The danger is she will be forgotten by the rest of the world

Hopefully not, but I wonder whether the sports world are oging to make a point as the WTA have done.

It was a really interesting article, very scary and Orwellian. It's kind of like the middle ages, something out of a movie. It just doesn't seem real that this could happen in this day and age, but I guess I'm being naive.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

I was wondering with the AO coming up if there was any news on her?

GBJ · Club Coach

Ive been wondering but not seen anything about it yet: if the atp have tournaments in China still, what would happen if atp players came out to marches with T-shirts, banners etc supporting her cause/advertising the issue/protesting?

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

The whole Peng thing is extremely quiet - and therefore worrying - drowned out by Djoko situation to be honest and wrongly so.

WTA need to keep the profile of this raised, not sure what they are doing right now?

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

JonH comes home wrote:
The whole Peng thing is extremely quiet - and therefore worrying - drowned out by Djoko situation to be honest and wrongly so.

WTA need to keep the profile of this raised, not sure what they are doing right now?

I'm kind of hoping that now Djoko's thing is out of the way, that Peng might be discussed, but I'm not holding my breath.

It looks like she hasn't played since March 2020, is that right?

Lambda · ATP qualifying

Tennis Australia have brought this back into the headlines by calling the police to get some activists wearing Where is Peng Shuai t- shirts to remove them. They say that Peng's safety is their primary concern but that the action was taken because conditions of entry do not allow any commercial or political clothing. Navratilova has accused TA of capitulating to China calling it cowardly and pathetic. Mahut tweeted "What's going on!? What lack of courage! What if you did not have Chinese sponsors?"

Another person, on learning this, has set up a fundraising campaign to print 1,000 t-shirts with the question to hand out for free at the women's final. They've so far raised over 13,000AUD of their 15,000 target.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
Tennis Australia have brought this back into the headlines by calling the police to get some activists wearing Where is Peng Shuai t- shirts to remove them. They say that Peng's safety is their primary concern but that the action was taken because conditions of entry do not allow any commercial or political clothing. Navratilova has accused TA of capitulating to China calling it cowardly and pathetic. Mahut tweeted "What's going on!? What lack of courage! What if you did not have Chinese sponsors?"

Another person, on learning this, has set up a fundraising campaign to print 1,000 t-shirts with the question to hand out for free at the women's final. They've so far raised over 13,000AUD of their 15,000 target.

TA just seem to be playing things all wrong right now, poor show

indiana · Tennis legend

Hopefully this will now indeed lead to a much bigger demonstration at the women's final

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

I'm really happy to hear that it's back in the public arena. TA might have helped the publicity with their attitude.

Strongbow · All-time great

Helen40 wrote:
I'm really happy to hear that it's back in the public arena. TA might have helped the publicity with their attitude.

the addict · Tennis legend

They've lifted the ban on the T-shirts, so expect to see plenty in the stands.

emmsie69 · Top national player

Another Times article about disappearances in China. www.thetimes.co.uk/article/your-only-right-is-to-obey-chinas-thousands-of-disappeared-bmfmj3sx6

https://archive.ph/wzYbW

-- Edited by emmsie69 on Tuesday 25th of January 2022 09:26:31 AM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

emmsie69 wrote:
Another Times article about disappearances in China. www.thetimes.co.uk/article/your-only-right-is-to-obey-chinas-thousands-of-disappeared-bmfmj3sx6

https://archive.ph/wzYbW

-- Edited by emmsie69 on Tuesday 25th of January 2022 09:26:31 AM

given it is over a month since any contact with Peng, it does feel like she may well be held in one of these RSDL Black Jails - I am quite shocked at how quiet things have gone; the WTA were very, very active and made strong words, but the next step is to threaten to actually go through with the Chinese tournament ban for the whole season, surely, and they seem to have baulked at that now; has the WTA CEO (Simon?) now retired, perhaps they have a slight power vacuum at the moment, or perhaps they are conferring with lawyers as that next step could have big financial implications if they do actually follow through and pull out of China completely...