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Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast

NY Times Matt Futterman re: Chinese Tennis Star Peng Shuai

Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast

NFL Business

Sports News, News

4.8607 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Matt Futterman from the New York Times talks with Andrew about Peng Shuai, the Chinese tennis star for whom there is great concern about her safety. They discuss... Peng Shuai's background as one of the most famous athletes in China 3:47 Her sexual abuse claim from a Chinese government official 7:14 Chinese government surveillance of the internet 9:35 WTA's critic of the Chinese government & threats of pulling events out of China 12:30 Parallels between the WTA & NBA's business in China 17:33 Peng Shuai's immediate safety 30:07 The United States diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics 32:28 Connect with the Pod Website:  https://www.andrew-brandt.com Andrew’s Sunday Seven Newsletter: https://www.andrew-brandt.com/sunday-seven Twitter: @AndrewBrandt Instragram: @AndrewBrandt2 Clubhouse: @adb719 Twitch.tv/andrewbrandtlive Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey there, boys and girls. Welcome to another edition of the Business of Sports with Andrew Brand.

0:04.1

We're presented as always by Draft Kings. It's a very important business of sports. I wanted to talk about Peng Shui, who is the Chinese women's tennis player who has, there's a lot of concern for her safety.

0:19.3

And it's been that way for over a month now.

0:21.7

And I want to get someone that's done some reporting on it and really talk about it.

0:26.1

So we're going to have a special guest, Matthew Futterman of the New York Times,

0:29.6

talking about Pemishue, what's going on in China, where her whereabouts,

0:34.8

and the concerns and the WTA, how they help, Women's Tennis Association,

0:39.8

how have they dealt with this? We're going to get to all that, but first a word from LinkedIn Talent Solutions.

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Without further ado, I want to get to our special guest talking about Peng Shui's situation in China,

1:39.7

the women's tennis player who has not been seen, at least in a way that people feel comfortable with her safety.

1:48.5

So here we go. Matthew Futterman from the New York Times.

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