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MASON, Ohio -- Defending champion Serena Williams initially opted to skip Cincinnati, figuring shed be just finishing up in Rio de Janeiro. An early upset changed her plans and got her back in the Western & Southern Open with more than just another trophy at stake.Her No. 1 ranking is on the line, too.Williams attempt to hold onto the top spot will be one of the main intrigues in the tournament that opened on Sunday with a couple of matches scheduled in the mens bracket. The mens draw is missing its two most notable plots -- Roger Federer trying for an unprecedented eighth Cincinnati title, and Novak Djokovic trying to finally win his first. Both are sidelined by injuries and will have to wait another year for the Masters event.Meanwhile, Williams wants to get over her loss to 21-year-old Elina Svitolina in the third round at the Olympics. She accepted a wild-card berth to get some matches in Cincinnati, where she has won the title each of the last two years.Williams heads into the tournament ranked No. 1 for the 306th week overall in her career and her 183rd in a row. Its the second-longest streak in WTA history, trailing Steffi Grafs 186 consecutive weeks. She first topped the rankings in July 2002 and, at age 34, is the oldest woman to hold the top spot since the computer rankings were introduced in 1975.Second-ranked Angelique Kerber will take over the top spot if she wins the tournament and Williams loses before the quarterfinals. Williams has a first-round bye and could get a second-round rematch with Svitolina, who opens the tournament against Christina McHale.The mens bracket is wide open because of a couple of injuries and travel challenges from the Olympics.Cincinnati has become Djokovics annual quest. Its the only one he needs to win in order to become the first get all nine current ATP Masters championships, something hed love to accomplish. He reached the finals last year and lost to Federer, who is 7-0 in title matches. By contrast, Djokovic is 0-5 in Cincinnati finals, never winning even a set.Djokovic dropped out because of a sore left wrist after he lost at the Olympics. Federer is taking the rest of the year off to rebuild a surgically repaired knee.Andy Murray enters the tournament as its top seed -- hes won it twice -- after winning the gold medal in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday night. He beat Juan Martin del Potro in a four-hour final that left him drained. He has little time to recover for Cincinnati.Emotionally, it was tough, Murray said of the four-hour set. Physically, it was hard.Rafael Nadal also will be making the trek after losing the bronze medal match on Sunday to Japans Kei Nishikori.Djokovic, Federer, Murray and Nadal have won 54 of the last 58 Masters events. Djokovic has won four of them this season, with Nadal and Murray winning one apiece. The injuries and the overlapping tournament schedules will open the way for someone else to reach the finals.Rain jumbled the last two days of qualifying, pushing many qualifying matches over to Sunday. They were again delayed by rain the morning and afternoon.---AP Tennis Writer Howard Fendrich in Rio de Janeiro contributed to this report.---Follow Joe Kay on Twitter: http://twitter.com/apjoekay Vapormax Damen Sale . - Derek Wolfe says hes finally healthy after suffering a seizure in November that doctors now believe was related to the spinal cord injury he suffered in the preseason. Nike Vapormax Damen Günstig . I cant pinpoint a date, but I do remember a player from my youth. Brian Downing was with the Chicago White Sox at a time when I listened to every game I possibly could on the radio. 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Middleweight world titleholder Billy Joe Saunders withdrew Thursday from his first defense, which was scheduled against Artur Akavov on Oct. 22 at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff, Wales, promoter Frank Warren announced.Warren said Saunders pulled out of the fight because of an unspecified muscle injury, although Akavov promoter Lou DiBella was sent a letter from Warrens office saying Saunders had suffered a hand injury.Saunders-Akavov was initially scheduled to take place Oct. 29 at Manchester Arena in Manchester, England, on the undercard of the heavyweight championship rematch between Tyson Fury and Wladimir Klitschko. However, when that fight was canceled last month, Warren shifted Saunders-Akavov to the Oct. 22 card.But the entire card was postponed Thursday because not only is Saunders out, but Warren announced that on the same day that Saunders suffered his injury British junior middleweight champion Liam Williams (15-0-1, 10 KOs), 24, who is from Wales and was the draw for the card, also suffered an injury in sparring, which forced him to pull out of his defense against Ahmet Peterson (17-0, 7 KOs), 28, of England.Warren said the show is rescheduled for Nov. 26, also at Motorpoint Arena.We have obviously not had a lot of luck with this event, first of all being let down by Chris Eubank Jr. and now the two main fights on a card falling out on the same day, Warren said. We have no choice but to postpone the card to a month later so everyone is given time to recover.Eubank was slated to defend the British middleweight title against Tommy Langford on the card but withdrew a few weeks ago, claiming that he had an elbow injury. Eubank vacated the tiitle and Langford was scheduled to fight Sam Sheedy for the vacant