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WTA Finals moved to Fort Worth, Texas, 'due' to return to China in 2023
•A WTA spokeswoman said its tournaments in China remain suspended for 2022 but that events could return next year.
Wimbledon 2022: Activist removed from Centre Court for Peng Shuai protest
•Peng is a retired professional tennis player from China who last year accused a former high-ranking member of the country's ruling Communist Party of sexual assault.
Wimbledon 2022: Activists with Peng Shuai T-shirts searched at All England Club
•Peng is a retired professional tennis player from China who last year accused a former high-ranking member of the country's ruling Communist Party of sexual assault.
Peng Shuai mistakenly included in Rome tournament schedule
•The Rome tennis tournament organisers caused surprise by including Peng Shuai, the Chinese player at the centre of sexual allegations against a senior politician, on a training schedule.
Beijing Winter Olympics turns political with Taiwan, Uyghur questions
•Questions about Taiwan, Xinjiang, and the safety of Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai have cropped up at press conferences at the Games, prompting Chinese officials to provide emphatic, calibrated answers
IOC head Thomas Bach says will maintain contact with Peng Shuai
•On meeting her, Bach said she appeared she is "enjoying the games" and that she is enjoying being among athletes and the public
Peng Shuai repeats sexual assault denial, meets IOC chief Thomas Bach at Beijing Winter Olympics
•The former doubles world number one alleged in a social media post in November that former Chinese vice-premier Zhang Gaoli forced her into sex during a years-long relationship.
Beijing Winter Olympics 2022: In Beijing, Olympic ideals coexist with authoritarian rule
•The IOC knows that Beijing has locked up hundreds of thousands of minority Uighur Muslims, those critics say, and arrested countless people who dared voice criticism of the government.
IOC would back Peng Shuai inquiry if she wants one, says Thomas Bach
•Bach confirmed he would meet the tennis star while he is in the Chinese capital and said he hoped to find out more about her "physical integrity and her mental state".
After Djokovic chaos, Nadal, Barty give Australian Open desperately needed happy ending
•After the chaos that preceded the tournament, Tennis Australia couldn't have dreamt of a happier ending — and it was one they desperately needed, after a competition riddled with unforced errors on the organisers' parts.