The 21-year-old will join the ranks of Jennifer Lopez and David Bowie's wife Iman by introducing her own product line in 2003.

According to the Austrian Press Agency, the head of Kournikova's management firm Octagon in Austria, Marc Habermann, has reached an agreement with the German cosmetic group LR International Cosmetics.

The German company will work together with the tennis star and Octagon to create the product line.

It will start with perfume, shower gel, body lotion, deodorant and unisex fragrance and should go on sale next year.

Kournikova's latest move is unlikely to impress her other sponsors who have already said she should concentrate on improving her game rather than her looks.

Adidas boss Herbert Hainer was among the sponsors who complained. He said: "Being a beauty queen is not enough."

Hainer demanded that the Russian tennis player concentrate more on her game than her PR schedule.

"She will have to train harder and then hopefully win her first singles tournament," he said.