CEO of Women's Tennis Association suspends all tournaments in China and Hong Kong over Peng Shuai

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• The Women's Tennis Association has suspended tournaments in China and Hong Kong. 
• The organization's CEO said the suspensions were due to concerns of the safety of player Peng Shuai.
• "I am also greatly concerned about the risks that all of our players and staff could face," he said.

The Women's Tennis Association has suspended all tournaments in China and Hong Kong amid concerns for the safety of athlete Peng Shuai, the organization's CEO said in a statement on Wednesday.

"I don't see how I can ask our athletes to compete there when Peng Shuai is not allowed to communicate freely and has seemingly been pressured to contradict her allegation of sexual assault," CEO Steve Simon said.

 

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Good for the Women's Tennis Association.  We need more organizations to live this truth.

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As its rift with China over the Peng Shuai case deepened Thursday, the head of the Women’s Tennis Association said he was suspending all tournaments in the country's mainland and Hong Kong because some things are “bigger than money.”

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