British tennis star Emma Raducanu ends the current season and plans to retain coach into the 2026 season.
Raducanu advanced to round three in three Grand Slam tournaments major tournaments this year.
Britain's Emma Raducanu has pulled out of her final two events in 2025 due to the illness she has been fighting over the past 10 days.
At 22 years old was scheduled to compete in tournaments in Tokyo and Hong Kong but has decided to fly home to regain her health before starting plans for the 2026 season.
Her upcoming training are set to feature trainer Francisco Roig, as they have decided to continue collaborating again next season.
Raducanu had her blood pressure taken during her first-round match against Ann Li in Wuhan and withdrew when behind 6-1 4-1 on an oppressively humid day.
Another medical visit was necessary medical attention at the recent Ningbo Open, where she fell in a three-set match to local wildcard Zhu Lin in the opening round.
She was also playing far from freely in the third set versus Zhu owing to a lower back issue that has affected her on several occasions in 2025.
These outcomes signaled a promising season, in which the player advanced into the top 30 globally after a long gap for the first time since 2022, concluded with three straight losses.
The athlete was close to victory with three match points prior to falling to American player Jessica Pegula in the third stage in the Beijing tournament last month.
Raducanu won 28 matches during 2025 and made it to the semi-final round in Washington, but her standout performance was at March's Miami Open.
The British number one advanced to the quarters of this WTA 1000 tournament, beating eighth seed Emma Navarro en route before losing in three sets to fourth-ranked Pegula.
Her coach was Mark Petchey between Miami and Wimbledon, with Roig assuming the role ahead of the US Open.
The original arrangement with Rafael Nadal's former coach was until the end of the season but the partnership will continue, with a training block pencilled in for the end of the year.
She mentioned that her three-day trial with Roig after Wimbledon was like a "covert operation" as the meeting was kept under wraps.
She came very close to overcoming Sabalenka, the world number one at the first competition with Roig in Cincinnati during August.
Roig was also with Raducanu in the New York tournament, where she made the third stage before being beaten by Rybakina, champion at Wimbledon in 2022.
