The former world No. 4 confirmed participation for the February 7-12 WTA event.
The world No. 1 won in straight sets to claim the title for the third time in four years.
Sania Mirza beat Italy's Tathiana Garbin 6-2, 6-2 in the 1.3-million-dollar Acura Classic in San Diego, USA.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday
It will be the earliest meeting between the two since their first professional match in the second round of the 1998 Australian Open.
For the second straight year Serena Williams saw her bid for a seventh U.S. Open title halted in the semi-finals with a 6-2 7-6(5) loss to Karolina Pliskova on Thursday that also ended her long reign as world number one.
The Indian ace was beaten in straight sets by Japan's Akiko Morigami.
The Indian ace beat Anna-Lena Groenefeld 6-4, 6-3 in the first round of the Western and Southern Financial Group Women's Open
The Indian teenager will take on seventh seed Anna-Lena Groenefeld at the USD 170,000 Cincinnati Open.
Sania Mirza beat Tetiana Luzhanska of Belarus to make the grade at the ITF Women's World Ranking tournament.
Eugenie Bouchard's mid-season nosedive continued on Tuesday as the Canadian was swept aside 6-3 6-4 by Croatian qualifier Donna Vekic despite having home advantage and the backing of an excited crowd in a first round clash at the Rogers Cup.
Roberta Vinci beat her opponent and the rain to storm into the quarter-finals of the US Open on Monday just before a thunderstorm forced play to be suspended.
Fifth seed Simona Halep narrowly avoided a third-round upset with a 6-1, 2-6, 6-4 win over Hungary's Timea Babos on Saturday to keep her US Open title hopes alive.
With first round exit, the Indian challenge in the WTA singles event came to an end.
Switzerland's French Open champion Stan Wawrinka captured his fourth title this year when he beat his good friend Benoit Paire 6-2, 6-4 in the final of the Japan Open on Sunday.
Factbox on Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli, who announced her retirement from tennis at 28 after a second round loss at the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati on Wednesday.
The Indo-Australian pair got the better of Rainer Schuettler and Mikhail Youzhny 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 in the second round of Dubai Open.
Belgian Xavier Malisse won the first ATP title of his career as he upset Jiri Novak 7-6 6-2 in the final of the Millennium International Tennis Championships at Delray Beach on Sunday.
Indian table tennis men's team settled for a historic bronze medal after losing 0-3 to South Korea in a lop-sided semifinal at the 18th Asian Games, in Jakarta, on Tuesday.
Ajay Ramaswamy won the battle of Indians when he beat Vijay Kannan to enter the final of ITF Satellite Masters tennis tournament.
The victory gave the former Junior National champion a place in the semi-finals of the ONGC ITF Futures tennis tournament.
The Indian wild card beat the sixth seeded Indonesian to enter the quarter-finals in the ITF Futures tournament.
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However, the 30-year-old Russia belied her own self-doubt with an impressive three-set win over the Romanian to thrust the former world number one back into the spotlight as the toast of the Big Apple.
The unseeded Tamil Nadu player shocked fifth seed Vindo Sridhar in the final of the ITF Futures tournament.
They made the grade with contrasting victories in the ITF Futures tennis tournament.
Vinod Sridhar upset second seed Sunil Kumar Sipaeya, while Vijay Kannan beat Chris Kwon of the US at the ITF Men's Futures tennis tournament.
The unseeded Indian rallied after dropping the first set to make the second round in the ITF Futures tournament.
The victories gave them semi-final berths in the boys' under-16 and under-14 quarter-finals respectively at the DSCL Open National Tennis Championship.
The victory earned the eighth seed a final meeting with top seed Rushmi Chakravarthi in the ITF women's tournament in Chennai.
With temperatures reaching almost 38 degrees on court, Murray, a twice Wimbledon champion, was beaten 7-6(4), 6-2 by Australian world number 90 Jordan Thompson.
The final will pit power against power when Andreescu takes on her childhood hero Williams, who claimed her first US Open title in 1999 before Andreescu was even born.
The Indo-Serbian pair lost 6-7(6), 6-3, 7-6(4) to Fabrice Santoro and Michael Llodra in the Masters Cup final
The eighth seed was beaten by qualifier Punam Reddy in the ITF tournament.
Paes and the Czech Republic's Rikl defeated fifth seed Australian duo Wayne Arthurs and Paul Hanley 6-3, 6-2.
Venus Williams staged a spirited comeback to down third seed Petra Kvitova 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 and reach the third round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells on Saturday.
World number two Novak Djokovic has confirmed that he and his coach Boris Becker have mutually agreed to end their three-year-long partnership. Djokovic, who lost the number one ranking he had held for 122 weeks to Britain's Andy Murray in November, asserted the goals they had set together have been fulfilled. He also thanked the German tennis legend for his cooperation and dedication. "Boris Becker and I have jointly decided to end our cooperation. The goals we set when we started working together have been completely fulfilled, and I want to thank him for the cooperation, teamwork, dedication and commitment," the 29-year-old, who clinched this year's Australian and French Open, confirmed on Facebook.
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