After her defeat against Naomi Osaka in the first round of the Melbourne tournament, Alizé Cornet returned to the Peng Shuai affair and its gray areas: “
I'm still a little worried about her.
I must admit that this situation always makes me uncomfortable and I don't know how it is.
I really don't know what to think about it anymore.
I don't know where the truth is and where the lies are.
I'm not sure the WTA's decision to suspend all of its tournaments in China changes anything.
I just hope she's okay
”.
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Before the women's tennis body took the decision to boycott China, because of this affair, the Niçoise was one of the first players to publicly support the ex 14th world and former No. 1 in doubles on the social networks.
The 31-year-old Frenchwoman had developed in an interview with L'Équipe: “
I know players who know her personally and no one has heard from her.
I tell myself that if she absolutely wanted to reassure us, she would have done it already.
We do not know all the ins and outs of the story but I see that the tennis community is coming together and revolting.
There is something heartwarming about this.
There is a bit of humanity and it goes way beyond tennis.
"
Read also Tennis: Shuai Peng denounces "misunderstandings" and denies accusations of sexual assault
The Chinese player had in a post on the social network Weibo on November 18, accused the former Chinese vice-premier of having forced her to have sex, before retracting, in particular in a video published by a media close to the power, last December 20.
The Chinese tennis player assured that she had never accused anyone of sexual assault, and that her posts on social networks would have been "
misunderstood
".
