The Maria Sharapova phone

Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova [ Images ] poses for photographers holding Motorola's Pink M1000, which was made specifically for her, at a media conference on in Tokyo on Thursday.

The conference was held to announce Maria Sharapova's and Lindsay Davenport's [ Images ] participation at the Pan Pacific Open tennis tournament taking place early next year in Tokyo.

Sharapova is in Japan [ Images ] for a three-city promotional blitz that will include singles matches against Japan's top-ranked player, Ai Sugiyama [ Images ], Asahi Shimbun wrote Monday.

The Maria Sharapova Japan Tour 2005 is the first leg of a planned world tour scheduled to stop in Russia [ Images ], Hong Kong and Singapore in the following months.

• Sharapova topped the list of Russia's wealthiest athletes published by the Finance magazine earlier this month. Sharapova's income in 2005 was estimated at $14.5 million.

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