Одokovi support: The WTA decision is brave

Novak ковиokoviжа supported the decision of the rankings / photo: EPA-EFE / NEIL HALL

World number one Novak ковиokoviжа supported the WTA decision to suspends tournaments in China due to the situation with the tennis player Shuai Peng.

Just hours after this decision, the rankings received support from the first tennis player in the ATP rankings, Novak Djokovic.
- I fully support the decision of the rankings because we really do not have enough information about Shuai Peng and the situation in which he finds himself. "I think the decision made by the rankings is a brave one," Djokovic said.
The Serbian tennis player added that Shuai Peng's health is more important than tennis.

The rankings are concerned about the condition of the Chinese tennis player, who has been "missing" in public for some time after accusing former Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Zhang Gaoli of sexual harassment last month. Last week, the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, had a video conversation with Shuai Peng, to which the tennis player confirmed that she was fine.

But that was not enough for the rankings because she fears that the tennis player is under the control of the Chinese authorities and in the absence of other evidence of Peng's "freedom", she decided to suspend the tournaments that are to be played in China in 2022.

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