Steve Simon doesn’t like the spotlight, as the CEO of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) prefers to remain as anonymous as possible while the players in his organization bask in their own successes. Simon, however, made a decision a few weeks ago that has made that impossible. It all began on Nov. 2 when one of the WTA’s players, China’s Peng Shuai, posted on the social media site Weibo that Zhang Gaoli, 75, who was high-ranking member of the Chinese government, pressured her into having sex and carried on a 10-year secret affair with the now 35-year-old Peng. Not only was the social media post deleted 20 minutes later, Peng disappeared from public view for two weeks before CGTN, an English-language Chinese state media outlet, shared an email that Peng allegedly sent to Simon, telling him that she was OK—“I am not missing, nor am I unsafe. I’ve just been …