"despite maintaining the boycott for over a year..." Huh? As you know, the WTA never had ANY boycott of China. The ONLY reason WTA events were not held in China was that the CCP disallowed them. As soon as the CCP changed that restriction, the WTA simply stopped lying. They didn't end a boycott; they stopped lying about their (non-existent) boycott.
your dedication to raising the relevance of human rights stories that are tennis related is inspiring. the only sports channel that I've seen do this consistently and without wavering. Thanks a lot for shedding some light on all of these stories, especially this one. We all pray for Shuai. Keep up the great work!
You might as well tell that to those soldiers who fought through the war, in the end WTA can’t afford to stand by Peng Shuai while sacrificing their own benefit as result
@@s.z.x.01 But that what they said they were going to do! You can’t we say ”We will not back down until we know Peng is free and safe” and then do just that. At the very least Steve Simon should have resigned.
@@uchihasasuke7436 Idk...when I met my relatives and asked them a lot of them havent heard about it at all + i see a lot of people online in China still being clueless about it? but thats just my own experience
She's as safe as someone locked down in isolation in a high security prison... I'm pretty sure they will protect her physical and medical health, but will only let her out "on a leash" for a few minutes at a time, to prove she's alive, and will do everything possible to break her mentally. 💀
Everyone seems to have forgotten about her. No doubt she is living under very restrictive circumstances with threats to her family if she says a word. It’s quite possible she is in custody
One of your best videos. Really sad how this has been dragged out almost two years and we still can’t be sure of her safety. She’d have to probably leave china forever if we’re to know the truth
But she can't just leave her family there. And that's probably what they're holding over her head. Not sure if any from her family are also in cahoots.
You guys have no idea.... More slavery now than in 1700s but somehow this is bad? It is but this is nothing compared to others but they ain't famous so you guys don't care
what are they going to do? China is a superpower country and this is one person. Every powerful country in history gets away with a lot of shady things that just kept swept under the rug just because they're powerful. US and Russia are no different in a modern context, though China and Russia are more brazen about it.
In China is normal to have what is called a "second wife" (二奶, er nai) well known by the official wife as it was this case. It is something that Chinese people accept culturally and that Western culture try to worngfully make it fit in our world view. The guy would never leave his family for the tennis player.
how is she "still missing" if she's been seen in public, attended multiple interviews, attended multiple tennis events, and has spoken to tennis association members in private? If anything, she has been forced into silence, not "disappeared"
Thank you for raising awareness again, since most of the world seems to have only a short-term memory. Unfortunately, many still don't realize, this is exactly how China does things in every faucet (I can think of so many examples), and since most of the world so heavily depend on cheap Chinese consumer goods and Chinese market, China holds leverage. We need to speed up decoupling, like seriously.
Nothing justifies Peng's disappearance and its clearly inappropriate behavior by a married government official. Let her leave the country and visit friends or a tournament to show she isn't under house arrest. From the Guardian UK: "Peng had posted an essay to Weibo in early November, describing an on-again-off-again consensual affair with the then 75-year-old, and an incident in which he allegedly pressured her into having sex after inviting her to his house to play tennis with him and his wife. Amid what she described as “complicated feelings”, they allegedly rekindled the affair, until an argument and his failure to meet her shortly before the post." Could it be that "sexual assault" may be applied too broadly here given her "mixed feelings" that include her disappointment in being jilted by this guy? Where is the evidence of force - especially physical force or threat. It sounds more like a manipulative jerk official only interested in sex and a younger woman who has developed some romantic feelings and also feels regret and used now.
Thank you for making this video. Even if Steve Simon sells out, I hope the individual players will boycott the events in China. If they don't, then they are just as bad as he is.
I do wonder if Simon was just a big, toothless idiot who didn't know how to effectively make threats. He should have backed himself up before making the threats.
@@JiraiyaSama86I mean, itMs quite difficult to create from scratch new tournaments in countries away from china with the same prize money, but it will probably happen in the long run since relationships beaten china and the western countries have been cooling for almost ten years
Thanks for the video. It's disheartening to see the pendulum swing towards sport washing, censorship, and techno-autocracy. I'm glad there are still a lot of folks who are unwilling to accept these trends as "business as usual".
Its like you said, this was a promising and growing youtube channel, with some videos getting millions of views within a day, and here we are, this important topic is buried by youtube!
while i definitely could believe that something did happen, people should keep in mind that she already retired before the incident was said to take place. she's not coming back to tennis.
I wanted to point out that the level of english vocabulary is crazy in this one, i actually had difficulties understanding everything at times because of it 😂 that being said, great video as always!
Nowadays, this is sad and messy power struggle. China's change in communicational strategy was a key factor. For example 9:56, they will say that these are USG organisms, and they're correct. I hope she's allright. Because things got muddy.
This needs to continue being on the news until she is free and truly safe. As a side note- when you say womEn, plural, you pronounce it like womAn, singular. I notice a lot of people making this mistake lately. Woman and Women are not pronounced the same. Wo-man, singular. We-men, plural.
she just got locked from social media, after the incidence, she even attended public government organized tennis camps for youths. do some research....
I only heard about her because of the hashtag (which, surprise surprise ! didn't help at all in finding out where she is lol) So I wouldn't say she's a "superstar"..
O Brasil está seguindo o mesmo caminho, embora não seja a realidade hoje, me preocupa muito as atuais intenções do governo de controlar mídias sociais. Esse é um caso extremo, mas infelizmente estamos no mesmo caminho
Brazil is following the same path, although it is not the reality today, I am very concerned about the current intentions of the government to control social media. This is an extreme case, but unfortunately we are following the same horrendous steps
Wow! I think I'm more upset at the WTA than the CCP. While it's true that they need to pay their athletes, they should have been trying to figure out what to do if the CCP didn't yield and backed themselves up. Perhaps the real reason why they never yielded was because they(CCP) knew they had their(WTA) nuts.
What wonders me the way west has been so accomodative to ccp with regard to such brazen acts. Had this type of situation occured in any other country like India, western media would continue to condemn to this day even if appropriate action had been taken. But ccp just goes scot free! It shows this world just understands power.
As a Vietnamese I developed weird fear about China and North Korea, I've always thought that I might be abducted if I travel there 😂 while in fact Vietnam is also communist country like those 2 🤣
“sTiLl mIsSiNg” dude if you’re gonna make 36 min video you should at least research. She made a public appearance recently in Nanjing where she met junior players. The WTA & ITF also made contact with her. Funny to me that people always ask the WTA and ITF to talk to peng shaui and make sure she’s safe when their mind is already made that they’re not gonna believe she’s safe no matter what. Why bother ask about her safety then?? Anyway, I am glad tennis is going back to china. At least they won’t discriminate against players based on their nationality and deny them entry like the xenophobic European tournaments did recently.
That's disgusting. The guy use his power and influence to attract a naive up and coming star to have sexual relation. When he ended the relationship, years passed and she learned what she did was not right. I'm not to say she is in the wrong for communicating with him again but did she really think all he want was to be friends? I used to think she's was really sexually assaulted but now that I think about it it seems like she's setting him up because xi wanted him who is one of xi's rival main ally to lose influence. Maybe Xi promise she would get a position in the CCP party but I doubt that will happen. In other words she got nothing out of setting the guy up.
13:34 Of course, there’s absolutely no justifiable reason for men getting paid more than women in tennis and other sports. It’s not like men are the ones bringing in all the sponsorship deals, ticket sales, and TV ratings. Men are more skilled and perform at a higher level than women ever could, making their matches must-see events bursting with excitement. Fans flock to tennis tournaments to watch men play because men's game is so thrilling and superior in every possible way.
So we have "How to beat Rafael Nadal" and "How to beat Roger Federer". When are we getting a video about how to beat Novak Djokovic, Cult Tennis? C'mon, the trilogy must be completed.
bro you can't even say "sexual assault" on yt anymore without getting into ad trouble? Why is youtube pro censorship man.. it's by the people for the people
Watch Second Serve on Nebula today! go.nebula.tv/culttennis
Falsely smearing information, Twitter blocked Trump, and then Trump disappeared in this world?
"despite maintaining the boycott for over a year..."
Huh? As you know, the WTA never had ANY boycott of China. The ONLY reason WTA events were not held in China was that the CCP disallowed them. As soon as the CCP changed that restriction, the WTA simply stopped lying. They didn't end a boycott; they stopped lying about their (non-existent) boycott.
Are you trolling or what? Where are "Second Serve" videos? I mean really 2 videos and that is all?
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your dedication to raising the relevance of human rights stories that are tennis related is inspiring. the only sports channel that I've seen do this consistently and without wavering. Thanks a lot for shedding some light on all of these stories, especially this one. We all pray for Shuai. Keep up the great work!
He only care because she's Chinese
Did he care about Djokovic refusing to take experimental treatment? No
Stop virtue signaling
@@TheebX92I ju- just go and like, eat some grass
The way the WTA did a complete 180 with their stance on this really disappointed me.
It is your fault for thinking they actually cared about her and human rights more than money
You might as well tell that to those soldiers who fought through the war, in the end WTA can’t afford to stand by Peng Shuai while sacrificing their own benefit as result
@@s.z.x.01 But that what they said they were going to do! You can’t we say ”We will not back down until we know Peng is free and safe” and then do just that. At the very least Steve Simon should have resigned.
the problem is bigger than WTA
They only went on "strike" because of the pandemic. COVID was a perfect excuse to not go to China.
It's literally insane how all mentions of her are erased from China's social media. A lot of people in China still doesn't know this even occurred.
Everybody I know in China knows. I live in China btw
Always the people who nvr been in china talking bs 😂😂
@@grapefruitsyrup8185 Babe I'm literally Chinese.
@@chanelhay6188 LMAO, what a plot twist. Poor grape fruit...
@@uchihasasuke7436 Idk...when I met my relatives and asked them a lot of them havent heard about it at all + i see a lot of people online in China still being clueless about it? but thats just my own experience
Thanks for putting this together. We shouldn't forget Peng Shuai.
She's as safe as someone locked down in isolation in a high security prison... I'm pretty sure they will protect her physical and medical health, but will only let her out "on a leash" for a few minutes at a time, to prove she's alive, and will do everything possible to break her mentally. 💀
The photo with the people in the mirror feels like something you would see in it’s always sunny as the gang is holding someone for ransom
Your editing is insane!
Thanks for all of your excellent content - it's really appreciated especially on important issues like this
He only care because she's Chinese
Did he care about Djokovic refusing to take experimental treatment? No
Stop virtue signaling...
@@TheebX92 Lol
@@TheebX92Djokovic acted like a spoiled brat
a bold topic, narrated and presented in an elegant way..kudos!! Expecting for more variety of content like this 👏
2 videos in a month ? Who are you and what have you done to cult tennis ?
Great work, I really hope Peng is safe and well
Everyone seems to have forgotten about her. No doubt she is living under very restrictive circumstances with threats to her family if she says a word. It’s quite possible she is in custody
You think she’s actually alive? If they’re going to do that, they might as well make her make videos saying she’s just retired and wants privacy
Great video as always mate :)
Will you be commenting on this on your channel?
One of your best videos. Really sad how this has been dragged out almost two years and we still can’t be sure of her safety. She’d have to probably leave china forever if we’re to know the truth
But she can't just leave her family there. And that's probably what they're holding over her head. Not sure if any from her family are also in cahoots.
@@JiraiyaSama86 100%, it sounds like an impossible dilemma
@@Paperbagman555 it really does. One can only pray for her.
Was not expecting such a deep and well put video on this channel, well done
Your animations are always top notch. Thanks for the video.
Man this channel is so underated it's incredible!! Amazingly video !
Incredible quality in these video. Keep up the good work.
It's incredible these kind of things still happen in the 21st century.
It's not incredible but it's outrageous.
You guys have no idea.... More slavery now than in 1700s but somehow this is bad? It is but this is nothing compared to others but they ain't famous so you guys don't care
Thank you so much for making this video.
Love it when you post!
These videos always have the best editing on TH-cam.
It's insane how the rest of the world just let go and moved on from this.
it's unsurprising. israel can regularly commit war crimes and kill international journalists and world seems to not care.
what are they going to do? China is a superpower country and this is one person. Every powerful country in history gets away with a lot of shady things that just kept swept under the rug just because they're powerful. US and Russia are no different in a modern context, though China and Russia are more brazen about it.
But we still continue to trade with china, to reinforce this evil system
Because they didn’t want China unleashing Covid 2.0
No. Literally just western countries who think they represent the world that’s all.
Probably one of the most impactful vidéo you will make
Not really! You americans are making up bullshit all the time.
Falsely smearing information, Twitter blocked Trump, and then Trump disappeared in this world?
@@ShockOfGayness what's bullshit in the video? timestamp please
In China is normal to have what is called a "second wife" (二奶, er nai) well known by the official wife as it was this case. It is something that Chinese people accept culturally and that Western culture try to worngfully make it fit in our world view.
The guy would never leave his family for the tennis player.
how is she "still missing" if she's been seen in public, attended multiple interviews, attended multiple tennis events, and has spoken to tennis association members in private? If anything, she has been forced into silence, not "disappeared"
Great video
The content is fantastic and the editing is awesome
Thanks for staying with this important story
Thank you for raising awareness again, since most of the world seems to have only a short-term memory.
Unfortunately, many still don't realize, this is exactly how China does things in every faucet (I can think of so many examples), and since most of the world so heavily depend on cheap Chinese consumer goods and Chinese market, China holds leverage. We need to speed up decoupling, like seriously.
Decoupling isn't going to happen, the world relies too much on China. Without China, the world stops working.
Thank you for raising awareness on such an important topic 👍
Cult Tennis == Narcos series (basically 9/10)
Nebula == Meet the Kardashians (-9/10)
Wow, that was not what I expected.
Nothing justifies Peng's disappearance and its clearly inappropriate behavior by a married government official. Let her leave the country and visit friends or a tournament to show she isn't under house arrest.
From the Guardian UK: "Peng had posted an essay to Weibo in early November, describing an on-again-off-again consensual affair with the then 75-year-old, and an incident in which he allegedly pressured her into having sex after inviting her to his house to play tennis with him and his wife.
Amid what she described as “complicated feelings”, they allegedly rekindled the affair, until an argument and his failure to meet her shortly before the post."
Could it be that "sexual assault" may be applied too broadly here given her "mixed feelings" that include her disappointment in being jilted by this guy? Where is the evidence of force - especially physical force or threat. It sounds more like a manipulative jerk official only interested in sex and a younger woman who has developed some romantic feelings and also feels regret and used now.
Thank you for making this video. Even if Steve Simon sells out, I hope the individual players will boycott the events in China. If they don't, then they are just as bad as he is.
I do wonder if Simon was just a big, toothless idiot who didn't know how to effectively make threats. He should have backed himself up before making the threats.
@@JiraiyaSama86I mean, itMs quite difficult to create from scratch new tournaments in countries away from china with the same prize money, but it will probably happen in the long run since relationships beaten china and the western countries have been cooling for almost ten years
This is a seriously impressive video
Thanks for the video. It's disheartening to see the pendulum swing towards sport washing, censorship, and techno-autocracy. I'm glad there are still a lot of folks who are unwilling to accept these trends as "business as usual".
I always mention the month when I'm talking about tomorrow
You do good stuff.
I'm watching this in April 2024 and we still don't know where Peng Shuai is.
Please do a video on David nalbandian
Its like you said, this was a promising and growing youtube channel, with some videos getting millions of views within a day, and here we are, this important topic is buried by youtube!
Am mad at cult tennis .How does it take you forever to post a video .Your videos are so cool
i think you just answered your own question
Yo, your videos are great but you need a pop filter for your microphone. The plosives make it difficult to listen with headphones.
Love the videos
Just commenting to help this video being shared with more people.
I really hope she is okay.
while i definitely could believe that something did happen, people should keep in mind that she already retired before the incident was said to take place. she's not coming back to tennis.
Please upload videos more often.
HONEY WAKE UP. CULT TENNIS POSTED. LET'S GOOO
Why can’t I find your second serve channel on Nebula?
Never mind I have worked it out now, great vids by the way
I wanted to point out that the level of english vocabulary is crazy in this one, i actually had difficulties understanding everything at times because of it 😂 that being said, great video as always!
Nowadays, this is sad and messy power struggle. China's change in communicational strategy was a key factor. For example 9:56, they will say that these are USG organisms, and they're correct. I hope she's allright. Because things got muddy.
Great video. This channel deserves a lot more credit than it currently has!
She basically got swept under the rug.
So sad.
Wow amazing video man! Informative and so well made as always, but this one extra important. Keep it up man
nah ur social credit score is dropping after this 💀💀
Good. Long live CCP 🇨🇳
is this a reupload?
He was spotted in NY at the US Open Qualifiers
Im watching Toronto masters..🎾
This needs to continue being on the news until she is free and truly safe.
As a side note- when you say womEn, plural, you pronounce it like womAn, singular.
I notice a lot of people making this mistake lately.
Woman and Women are not pronounced the same.
Wo-man, singular.
We-men, plural.
I think they took down one of your videos 'how china disappeared a tennis superstar'
It make no sense that you only have 100k subscribers
I heard that she was killed. She knew too much, so she had to be silenced.
How come you don’t use the hashtag? Asking for a friend 😐
She moved back to her parents house in Hunan!!
Her social credit took a hit so the Mickey Mouse took her away
she just got locked from social media, after the incidence, she even attended public government organized tennis camps for youths. do some research....
Wow, and I thought I couldn’t respect this channel any more than I already did.
I only heard about her because of the hashtag (which, surprise surprise ! didn't help at all in finding out where she is lol)
So I wouldn't say she's a "superstar"..
2:12, So sad, just act like a robot or animal with no feelings at all.
What a Research !!!!
This is so crazy.Still it is a mystery what happens to her.
If cult tennis is the best tennis channel 👇
If this happens to a tennis star can you imagine what happens to regular people especially women in China. Very sad 😢
WTD: China China'd so we gave in to the money
O Brasil está seguindo o mesmo caminho, embora não seja a realidade hoje, me preocupa muito as atuais intenções do governo de controlar mídias sociais. Esse é um caso extremo, mas infelizmente estamos no mesmo caminho
Brazil is following the same path, although it is not the reality today, I am very concerned about the current intentions of the government to control social media. This is an extreme case, but unfortunately we are following the same horrendous steps
And after this video cult tennis is also disappeared 😢
This did not age well
How Andrew From Cult Tennis Disappeared(still missing)
Wow! I think I'm more upset at the WTA than the CCP. While it's true that they need to pay their athletes, they should have been trying to figure out what to do if the CCP didn't yield and backed themselves up.
Perhaps the real reason why they never yielded was because they(CCP) knew they had their(WTA) nuts.
Bro putting himself in danger
And @wta dropped their protest immediately
What wonders me the way west has been so accomodative to ccp with regard to such brazen acts. Had this type of situation occured in any other country like India, western media would continue to condemn to this day even if appropriate action had been taken. But ccp just goes scot free! It shows this world just understands power.
As a Vietnamese I developed weird fear about China and North Korea, I've always thought that I might be abducted if I travel there 😂 while in fact Vietnam is also communist country like those 2 🤣
“sTiLl mIsSiNg” dude if you’re gonna make 36 min video you should at least research. She made a public appearance recently in Nanjing where she met junior players. The WTA & ITF also made contact with her. Funny to me that people always ask the WTA and ITF to talk to peng shaui and make sure she’s safe when their mind is already made that they’re not gonna believe she’s safe no matter what. Why bother ask about her safety then?? Anyway, I am glad tennis is going back to china. At least they won’t discriminate against players based on their nationality and deny them entry like the xenophobic European tournaments did recently.
That's disgusting. The guy use his power and influence to attract a naive up and coming star to have sexual relation. When he ended the relationship, years passed and she learned what she did was not right. I'm not to say she is in the wrong for communicating with him again but did she really think all he want was to be friends? I used to think she's was really sexually assaulted but now that I think about it it seems like she's setting him up because xi wanted him who is one of xi's rival main ally to lose influence. Maybe Xi promise she would get a position in the CCP party but I doubt that will happen. In other words she got nothing out of setting the guy up.
She's home in China and retired from tennis. Now do Scott Morrison.
I’m glad to live in a nation where we are free… where we can say “sexual assault” without fear of being demonetized.
Sarcasm works really badly in text especially with a population still convinced they live in the land of the free
13:34
Of course, there’s absolutely no justifiable reason for men getting paid more than women in tennis and other sports. It’s not like men are the ones bringing in all the sponsorship deals, ticket sales, and TV ratings. Men are more skilled and perform at a higher level than women ever could, making their matches must-see events bursting with excitement. Fans flock to tennis tournaments to watch men play because men's game is so thrilling and superior in every possible way.
So we have "How to beat Rafael Nadal" and "How to beat Roger Federer". When are we getting a video about how to beat Novak Djokovic, Cult Tennis? C'mon, the trilogy must be completed.
bro you can't even say "sexual assault" on yt anymore without getting into ad trouble? Why is youtube pro censorship man.. it's by the people for the people
You have to say “S A”
Here in 2024 :-(
Unfortunately 😢
3:58: Why was she messing around with a married man in his 60s?
There are several pictures of her at tennis events recently, before doing a video try to get proper informations
Shine-ah … no freedom for you! only a dog leash
Not watching the Olympics anymore. So ducking corrupt. Can we come up with an alternative tournament? Red bull maybe?
Another sordid chapter in the Protocols of the Elders of Beijing smh
Everyone in this comments section will dissapear soon. Including myself.
I’m all for her safety and screw the CCP, but come on, coming back to the affair FOR THE 2ND TIME?