However, the Russian has suffered a muscle strain in her right leg and will not be able to fulfil her entry for the Rogers Cup in Canada.
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Last year’s Rogers Cup women’s singles champion is World No. 7 Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland, who is on course to participate in the tournament. The withdrawal means that World No 3 Simona Halep of Romania will now be seeded second. Sharapova is next scheduled to play in the Cincinnati event which begins after Toronto but there is no word yet on whether the injury is serious enough to keep her from competing there.
Sharapova has never won the Rogers Cup title.
Bouchard should be back in action despite withdrawing from last week’s Citi Open in Washington with an abdominal injury, with the 21-year-old Canadian claiming she has been “healing well” and is keen to get “back to competition”.
“I just feel like I haven’t been quite myself, my confident, aggressive game lately”, Bouchard said in Toronto on Friday.
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Maria Sharapova has not played since she lost to world number one Serena Williams in the Wimbledon semi-finals on July 9.
