Peng Shuai denies accusing a Chinese official of sexual assault, and the tennis player tells a French newspaper it was ‘an enormous misunderstanding’

In that post, Peng wrote that Zhang Gaoli, a former vice premier and member of the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee, had forced her to have sex despite repeated refusals. Her post also said they had sex once seven years ago and she had feelings for him after that.