'You will be world No. 1' – Maria Sharapova praises heartbroken Wang

showed all her kidness and friendship on Wednesday helping Xinxyun Wang to leave the court after retiring from her match at the Shenzhen Open against the Russian. You played unbelievableyou take care of yourself ok? If you play like this youre going to be No.1.

I promise, Sharapova told Wang on court. In press conference, Sharapova commented: Obviously, its a tough situation. Its not a way that either of us wants to finish the match. I thought she was absolutely the dominant player in this match, and had all the opportunities to win it even though I felt like I was finding my stride and I was getting, you know, a little bit closer to the line and being a little bit more aggressive because I started very slowly.

She has all the tools to play well, and I think she showcased that. Obviously a very unfortunate way to end the match. I told her that being healthy is the most important thing. But if she continues to play the way that she did today, I think she has all the right tools to be a champion.

Sharapova was asked if she plans to develope her sweets brand Sugarpova in China and Asia in general. Sugarpova has a lot of stores around the world, and expanded their line with cholocate too. Right now Asian hasnt been our biggest focus, said the former world No.

1. I think were still establishing ourselves in North America at the moment, but its definitely a market we want to get into soon. Um, I dont wanna spread myself to thin at the moment. It takes a lot of work to create a really strong distribution channel.

Before you do that, you need to set up a great basis and other parts of the world and airport markets are important for us at the moment. Asked if playing in such cold weather during the match against Xinyu Wang in Shenzhen affected her, Sharapova replied: It didnt affect me in the match, but its obviously coming off a shoulder injury.

I think thats probably the toughest condition that the shoulder would wanna play in. So thats been challenging, but I feel like Im working through it and you know, the conditions are cold for me and cold for the opponent and its supposed to get warmer.

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