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Williams, who returned to the Tour after a year out last month,
fell in the first round at Wimbledon but has shown she is not
yet ready to hang up her racket even though she is two months
shy of her 41st birthday.
The 23-times Grand Slam champion is also set to play at the
National Bank Open in Toronto from Aug. 6-14 after she elected
to use her protected ranking to enter the main draw.
Williams, the oldest player in the men's and women's fields this
year, has won the tournament in Cincinnati twice in her career
in 2014 and 2015 while she was runner-up in 2013.
The Aug. 13-21 tournament will be headlined by the world number
ones in both the men's and women's tours -- Daniil Medvedev and
Iga Swiatek.
Former women's champions in the field include Victoria Azarenka,
Madison Keys, Garbine Muguruza and Karolina Pliskova.
Other Grand slam champions in the women's draw include Naomi
Osaka, Emma Raducanu, Simona Halep, Bianca Andreescu, Jelena
Ostapenko, Barbora Krejcikova, Angelique Kerber, Petra Kvitova
and newly-crowned Wimbledon champ Elena Rybakina.
Novak Djokovic and Rafa Nadal, who have won 43 majors between
them, will headline the men's field which also includes former
champions Alexander Zverev -- who missed Wimbledon with injury
-- Grigor Dimitrov and Marin Cilic.
(Reporting by Rohith Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Toby Davis)
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