Prior to Maria Sharapova’s exhibition this weekend in Singapore, the organizers have auctioned the hotel toilet seat that would be used by the Russian trendsetter.

"Since there's an interest for products that Sharapova will use during her stay here, we want to do this tastefully," organizer Jerry Goh told Singapore's New Paper on Sunday.

"So no toilet seats or covers will be offered for auction."

While any tennis event was not organized in Singapore since 1990, the officials give a great importance to the exhibition game on Sunday between Sharapova and fellow Russian Anna Chakvetadze.

A Singapore newspaper reported that fans showed interest in buying everything that the former number one comes in contact with.

Organizers from the Hong Kong-based Entertainment Group Limited, leaded by Lincoln Venancio, who formerly ran an ATP event in Hong Kong and which presented the recent Pete Sampras-Roger Federer exhibition in Kuala Lumpur, are making efforts to satisfy at least a part of the eager fans demands and offers.

Sharapova, who comes for the first time in Singapore, will arrive on Friday and will stay at the riverside Fullerton Hotel, in a 4.745 dollars per night presidential suite.

Some of the disposable items that will come in contact with the tennis player will be donated by the hotel, such as bathrobes, towels slippers, pillowcases and bed sheets, will be auctioned in a fund-raising effort for charity.

"This is a first for us and we haven't had time to think about the logistics of an auction, and which charity will get the proceeds," Venencio told the paper.

"But Sharapova supports charitable causes and she's smart and savvy enough to know that this demand for things that she has used can help a good cause somewhere."