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Where is Chinese Tennis Star Peng Shuai? She has not been seen in public for 18 days

Peng Shuai is seen having dinner with her friends at a restaurant in this screen grab of a video in a Twitter post, acquired by Global Times Editor In Chief, Hu Xijin on November 20, 2021. Acquired on November 20, 2021. Hu Xijin/Twitter via REUTERS

Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai has been staying at home "freely" and will make a public appearance "soon", Global Times editor-in-chief Hu Xijin, a prominent state-media journalist, said on Saturday.

Former doubles world number one Peng has not been seen or heard from publicly since she said on Chinese social media on Nov. 2 that former vice-premier Zhang Gaoli coerced her into sex and they later had an on-off consensual relationship.

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