According to official photos of the event, Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai appeared at a tennis tournament in Beijing on Sunday after the international community was under increasing pressure to provide information about her health.

According to the photos posted on the official Weibo of the China Tennis Open​​, Peng was seen wearing a navy jacket and white sweatpants to participate in the Fila Children and Youth Tennis Challenge finals. This is her sexual abuse allegation that has been widely censored online. After making his first public appearance. China Internet.

The two-time Grand Slam doubles champion has not appeared in public since he accused the former Deputy Prime Minister Zhang Gaoli, now in her 70s, of "forcing" her to have sex in a multi-year intermittent relationship earlier this month. .

After a global outcry, including tennis superstars and the United Nations, reporters from the Chinese state media released a series of videos claiming that everything is fine for Peng.

A video of the event posted on Twitter by Hu Xijin, editor of the Global Times, showed that Peng was standing in the stadium when the names of a group of guests were announced, winning rounds of applause.

A Global Times reporter posted another video on Twitter. The video showed Peng signing autographs for the children in what appeared to be the same stadium before taking a photo with the children.

Hu also released two other videos on Saturday. The first video showed Peng walking into a restaurant wearing a coat, knitted hat and mask.

An obvious sign reads Beijing Yibin Hotel, a famous restaurant just a stone’s throw away from Tiananmen Square and owned by the local government of Sichuan.

In the second picture, Peng sits at the table eating and chatting without wearing a mask.

Agence France-Presse was unable to verify the authenticity of the video.

Hu Jintao said on Twitter in English that the second video showed "Peng Shuai was having dinner with his coach and friends in a restaurant. The content of the video clearly shows that they were filmed on Saturday, Beijing time."

The conversation revolved around the "tennis match".

A man and a man sat with Peng and two women and said "Tomorrow is November 20th."

But one of the women quickly corrected him and said, "It's the 21st," implying that the video was shot on Saturday.

The chat seems to be staged. It was taken with a mobile phone in the evening. Peng appeared relaxed in the camera.

Peng's accusation against Zhang is the first time that China's #MeToo movement has touched the highest level of the ruling Communist Party.

They were quickly removed from Weibo platforms like Twitter, and since then, people's concerns about her safety have increased.

In the restaurant video, Steve Simon, the owner of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), said that he was happy to see these pictures, but “it’s not clear if she has freedom and can do it on her own without coercion or external interference. Make decisions and take action".

"This video alone is not enough," Simon said in a statement.

"I know exactly what needs to happen, and our relationship with China is at a crossroads."

The WTA threatened to terminate the lucrative contract with China unless Peng's safety news was obtained.

Chinese official media reporters published evidence that everything they said was good.

First, the state-run CGTN posted a screenshot on Twitter last week, the content of which was an email sent by Peng to the WTA, saying that her allegations were untrue and that "everything is fine."

But people are skeptical about the embarrassing language and the cursor visible in the screenshots.

On Friday, a photo of Peng Xiaoxiao appeared on the verified Twitter account @shen_shiwei, which was marked by the social network as China’s official media.

The authenticity of the image could not be verified, and the user did not respond to AFP’s request for comment.

Followed by videos posted on Saturday and Sunday.

The Chinese government has repeatedly refused to comment on this case.

Discussions of Peng’s allegations are blocked on the Internet, which is strictly controlled by China.

More and more voices inside and outside the sports world want to know where and how Peng is.

The White House expressed “deep concern” to Peng. The press secretary of US President Joe Biden stated that his administration hopes that China “provides independent and verifiable evidence” to prove her whereabouts.

The British Foreign Office also expressed “extremely concerned” and urged China to provide verifiable evidence.

The United Nations insists on conducting a completely transparent investigation into Peng's allegations.

Some prominent figures in the tennis world have already expressed their views on the case, including Serena Williams, Novak Djokovic and Naomi Osaka.

Superstar Roger Federer also expressed his opinion on Saturday, saying in Sky News: “She is one of our tennis champions and the former No. 1 in the world. Obviously it is related. I hope she is safe.”

Peng represented China in the Beijing, London and Rio de Janeiro Olympics, and won the gold medal for China at the 2010 Asian Games.

She is a former Wimbledon and French Open doubles champion.

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