Maria Sharapova ova to play Davenport in South Korea

Maria Sharapova will play Lindsay Davenport in an exhibition match in January in South Korea, an official at Seoul's tennis association said.

Maria will face American Davenport on 1. January in the South Korean port city of Inchon, the official said by telephone. Maria Sharapova lost a previous exhibition match in Seoul in 2005 to American Venus Williams.