“In addition, we informed the umpire of Peng’s situation before she left and the umpire did not say anything to oppose this,” Gao said.

The umpire’s permission for Peng to leave means the game result is unlikely to change even though France is protesting Peng’s actions.

But Gao was not sure the Chinese team would be able to escape punishment. “Anyway we are waiting for the possible ruling from the ITF. We have to let her [Peng] leave to accumulate enough world ranking points to get her an Olympic berth.”

Peng was paired with Olympic doubles champion Sun Tiantian after Sun’s former partner Li Ting retired. The low-ranked pair has to depend on points collected from Peng’s singles games because Sun specializes in doubles.

But a Chinese tennis expert said Peng may be deducted of her ranking points if she is punished.

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