Question: Which tennis player is from a country closer to New Zealand, Maria Sharapova or Mark Woodforde?

Context articles: 2010 Farmers Classic – Doubles
Maria Sharapova
Maria Sharapova career statistics
1986 Benson and Hedges Open
Marta Domachowska
Rossana de los Ríos
2012 Maria Sharapova tennis season
Tatiana Golovin
Mark Woodforde
World Tennis Challenge

Bob and Mike Bryan successfully defended their title, defeating Eric Butorac and Jean-Julien Rojer in the finals 6–7, 6–2, [10–7].
 The twin brothers set a record of 62 career doubles titles on the ATP Tour, surpassing The Woodies (Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde).
 Rojer, who was a UCLA tennis player (1999-2002), returned to play on his college home court.
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (Russian: Мари́я Ю́рьевна Шара́пова ; ] ; born April 19, 1987) is a Russian professional tennis player.
 A United States resident since 1994, Sharapova has competed on the WTA tour since 2001.
 She has been ranked world No. 1 in singles by the WTA on five separate occasions, for a total of 21 weeks.
 She is one of ten women, and the only Russian, to hold the career Grand Slam.
 She is also an Olympic medalist, having earned silver for Russia in women's singles at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
This is a list of the main career statistics of professional Russian tennis player, Maria Sharapova.
 To date, Sharapova has won thirty five WTA singles titles including five Grand Slams, one year-ending championship, six WTA Tier I singles titles, three WTA Premier Mandatory singles titles and five WTA Premier 5 singles titles.
 She was also the silver medallist in singles at the 2012 London Olympics.
The 1986 Benson and Hedges Open was a men's Grand Prix tennis tournament held in Auckland, New Zealand.
 The tournament was held from 6 January to 20 January 1986.
 Unseeded Mark Woodforde won the singles title.
Marta Domachowska (; born 16 January 1986 in Warsaw) is a Polish retired professional tennis player ranked World No. 37 in singles (2006) and World No. 62 in doubles (2006).
 She reached 2008 Australian Open fourth round in singles and won 2006 Canberra International in doubles with Roberta Vinci.
 She also reached three WTA Tour singles finals at 2004 Hansol Korea Open (lost to Maria Sharapova), 2005 Internationaux de Strasbourg (lost to Anabel Medina Garrigues) and 2006 U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships (lost to Sofia Arvidsson).
 She was 2003 Australian Open finalist in girls' singles, represented Poland at the 2008 Summer Olympics and was member of Poland Fed Cup team.
 Domachowska was the best female Polish tennis player after Magdalena Grzybowska's retirement and before Agnieszka Radwańska's successes.
Rossana de los Ríos (born 16 September 1975) is a retired professional tennis player from Paraguay.
 She was born in the Paraguayan capital, Asunción, and now lives in Miami, USA, with her daughter Ana Paula Neffa de los Ríos and her husband Gustavo Neffa, a retired Paraguayan Association football player who played for Boca Juniors.
 Rossana achieved a career high singles ranking of No. 51 on 12 September 2001, and No. 52 in doubles on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour.
 De los Ríos played doubles with Grand Slam champions such as Maria Sharapova, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, as well as Jelena Janković and Dinara Safina.
 Rossana is also a former world number one Junior player, having won the 1992 Roland Garros Juniors event.
 De los Ríos participated in six editions (1994, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2009 and 2010) of the Australian Open.
 She was the only female tennis representative for Paraguay in the 1992 and 2000 Olympic Games.
The 2012 Maria Sharapova tennis season officially began on 16 January 2012 with the start of the 2012 Australian Open.
 Sharapova began the season ranked the number 4 player in the world.
Tatiana Golovin (Russian: Татья́на Григорьевна Голови́на , "Tatyana Grigoryevna Golovina" ; born 25 January 1988) is a Russian-born French retired professional tennis player.
 She won the 2004 French Open mixed doubles event with Richard Gasquet, and reached the singles quarterfinal at the 2006 US Open, losing to the eventual champion Maria Sharapova.
 Her highest singles ranking to date is 12.
 In 2008, she was diagnosed with lower back inflammation and was forced to stop playing competitive tennis indefinitely.
Mark Raymond Woodforde, OAM (born 23 September 1965) is a former professional tennis player from Australia.
 He is best known as one half of "The Woodies", a doubles partnership with Todd Woodbridge.
The World Tennis Challenge is a three night professional exhibition tennis tournament held in the week before the Australian Open in Adelaide, South Australia as part of the Australian Open Series.
 The tournament was created by a consortium of past players including Jim Courier, Darren Cahill, Mark Woodforde and Roger Rasheed And Alistair (Macdonald)It has four teams of two players, a 'legend' and a current player and are paired into areas e.g. Americas or represent their countries.
 The current players play each other in a best of 3 match with a match tiebreaker for a 3rd set.
 The legends play a pro set, and the doubles if needed is a normal set with no a rules before a super tie break if needed.