Peng Shuai, a Chinese tennis player, has refuted her own claims of sexual assault, and rumors that she vanished from public view in an interview with international media have raised further fears about her safety. Last year, Peng, 36, alleged in a social media post that she had been coerced into sex by Zhang Gaoli, China’s former vice-premier, prompting a Beijing censorship campaign and her disappearance from public view for weeks Peng told French magazine L’Equipe in her first interview outside of Chinese state media on Sunday that she ‘never said’ she had been sexually assaulted and that she…