Peng Shuai, the missing Chinese tennis player who accused a powerful former vice president of sexual assault “will make a public appearance soon.”

Peng Shuai has been staying in her own home “freely” and will make a public appearance “soon”, Global Times editor-in-chief Hu Xijin, a prominent state-media journalist, said on Saturday.

In a statement shared to social media on 2nd November, Peng claimed that Chinese former vice-premier, Zhang Gaoli, now 75, sexually assaulted her over a period of at least 10 years.

She claims that they had an on-off extramarital ‘relationship’ but that Zhang stopped contacting her after he became a more senior member of the Communist party, but around three years ago after he had retired, Zhang invited her to play tennis with him and his wife. There, Peng claims, Zhang coerced her into sex.

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.

Neither Zhang nor the Chinese government has commented on her allegation. Peng’s social media post was quickly deleted and the topic has been blocked from discussion on China’s heavily censored internet.

“In the past few days, she stayed in her own home freely and she didn’t want to be disturbed. She will show up in public and participate in some activities soon,” Hu wrote on Twitter.

Hu said he had confirmed through his sources that photos shared on Twitter by a journalist working for Chinese state media, purportedly showing Peng at home, depicted her “current state.”

Reuters was not able to verify the authenticity of the pictures independently.

Amid growing concern about her whereabouts, the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) has threatened to pull tournaments out of China and the men’s ATP has demanded clarity from the Chinese authorities.

eng is a professional tennis player from Hunan, China, who has played in multiple Olympics. In 2014, she became the first Chinese tennis player to be ranked world No.1 doubles by the Women’s Tennis Association. She also reached No 14 in the singles rankings in 2011, and won her first women’s doubles championship at Wimbledon in 2013, then again at the 2014 French Open where she reached the semifinals.