WTA has suspended tournaments in China, India should seize the godsent alternative with each fingers

Fearing for the protection of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai, the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) on Wednesday introduced the suspension of all tournaments in China. Unconvinced by Peng’s public appearances, WTA was compelled to deliver the sledgehammer. WTAs choice is laudable and it ought to rightly immediate India to do the identical with Indian Olympic Association banning China from collaborating in any future sporting occasion held in India.  Moreover, with China suspended from internet hosting any WTA occasion, India might increase its fingers and ask the Tennis physique to shift the tournaments right here within the nation. Tennis in India, for lengthy, has been devoid of huge tournaments. The lone Davis Cup video games, as soon as each few years, do little to advertise the sport.  Among girls, Ankita Raina has completed nicely to enter the doubles top-100, win a WTA Tour-level trophy and have in a number of Grand Slam important attracts. But to today, Sania Mirza’s No.27 stays the very best singles rating achieved by somebody representing India and that got here greater than 14 years in the past. No one else has even cracked the top-100. However, that is the chance to make India the main focus of future WTA occasions.  Read More: Paes, Bhupati, Sania, Somdev and ….? Indian tennis is dying a gradual loss of life and AITA is to be blamed for itWhat did WTA say?WTA chairman, Steve Simon, while saying the suspension had remarked “With the full support of the WTA Board of Directors, I am announcing the immediate suspension of all WTA tournaments in China, including Hong Kong,” The WTA additional asserted that its choice was made in “good conscience.” “I don’t see how I can ask our athletes to compete (in China) when Peng Shuai is not allowed to communicate freely and has seemingly been pressured to contradict her allegation of sexual assault,” Seething on the suspension, the Chinese Tennis Association said, “The WTA has unilaterally announced on 1 December 2021 its decision to suspend tournaments in China. We would like to express our indignation and firm opposition to this decision,” Meanwhile, CCP’s mouthpiece Global Times and its Editor-in-Chief, Hu Xijin tweeted, “Steve Simon is boycotting in a high-profile manner some events that only have a slim chance of being held due to COVID-19. For one thing, it will not bring additional economic losses to the WTA, for another, it can garner attention from Western countries for himself and the WTA.” Steve Simon is boycotting in a excessive profile method some occasions that solely have a slim probability of being held because of COVID-19. For one factor, it won’t deliver further financial losses to the WTA, for one more, it will probably garner consideration from Western nations for himself and the WTA. https://t.co/6pRFntIuTh— Hu Xijin 胡锡进 (@HuXijin_GT) December 2, 2021What occurred with Peng Shua?Reported by TFI, after writing a 1,500-word article on her verified Weibo account final month suggesting she’d had a years-long affair with a former Chinese vice premier, the previous world doubles No. 1 vanished from the general public eye for weeks.  That account, which has since been faraway from the Chinese web, describes an incident by which she was allegedly compelled into intercourse. Peng resurfaced after the White House, the United Nations, and high tennis gamers expressed concern about her whereabouts. Chinese official media broadcast a succession of movies and pictures of her at residence, out with mates, and at a tennis occasion to Twitter. Why is China on the backfoot?The unprecedented assist that has poured in for Peng Shuai’s launch is alarming for the CCP, particularly as a result of it might very nicely spark a series response in China, the place different victims of the CCP’s tyranny could quickly discover it innocent to talk up and inform their very own tales.  Read More: Peng Shuai has begun a worldwide motion in opposition to the CCP and the CCP has hit the panic buttonA China that’s working helter-skelter to defuse the Peng Shuai bomb, would discover it perilous to take care of tons of such circumstances. And if one wants any extra proof, then the size of pushback that the CCP is receiving from the worldwide group and the Tennis Community exhibits the extent of harm the Peng Shuai case can do to the legitimacy and sustenance of the Chinese Communist Party.