23-time major champ Serena Williams says she'll play US Open

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23-time major champ Serena Williams says she'll play US Open

Published Wednesday, June 17, 2020 10:51AM EDT Last Updated Wednesday, June 17, 2020 12:00PM EDT

Serena Williams returns to Maria Sharapova during the first round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Monday, Aug. 26, 2019. (AP / Charles Krupa)

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NEW YORK -- Serena Williams is planning to play in the 2020 U.S. Open.

The 23-time Grand Slam singles champion said in a video shown during the U.S. Tennis Association's tournament presentation Wednesday that she 鈥渃annot wait to return鈥� to New York for the major championship she has won six times.

The 38-year-old American was the runner-up in Flushing Meadows each of the past two years.

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The U.S. Open normally is the fourth and final Grand Slam tournament of each season. It will be held without spectators from Aug. 31 to Sept. 13, making it be the second major of 2020, following the Australian Open, which concluded in early February.

The French Open was postponed from May because of the coronavirus pandemic and is now scheduled to run from Sept. 27 to Oct. 11. Wimbledon was cancelled altogether for the first time since World War II in 1945.