Serena Williams has withdrawn from this week's Los Angeles Classic due to a lingering thumb injury that has forced her to pull out of five events since Wimbledon. The eight-times grand slam winner injured her thumb at Wimbledon in her dramatic fourth-round victory over Daniela Hantuchova before going out to Justine Henin in the quarter-finals.

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