The w t a stands alone. Not even men's tennis is going this far in china, right? It's just women's tennis. That's the message it wants to get out. And that's why, a steve simon says it's taking such a forceful stand in this incident. "We can't walk away from sexual assault. We are not going to do that," he said.
A tennis star accused a former top Chinese official of sexual assault. Then she vanished. Now her case is changing sports in China.
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