British tennis star Emma Raducanu concludes her season and will keep coach for 2026.
The British player made it to the third stage in three Grand Slam tournaments Grand Slams in the current campaign.
Emma Raducanu from Great Britain will not compete in her final two events of the year due to a medical condition she has been battling for the last week and a half.
The 22-year-old was due to play in Tokyo and Hong Kong but chose to travel back to recover prior to beginning her preparations for 2026.
These plans are set to feature trainer Francisco Roig, as they will keep partnering again next season.
She had her blood pressure taken in her opening round against Ann Li in Wuhan and withdrew when trailing 6-1 4-1 on an oppressively humid day.
She again required a visit from the doctor at the recent Ningbo Open, where she fell in a three-set match to Zhu Lin, a Chinese wildcard in the first round.
Her movement was with clear difficulty in the third set versus Zhu owing to back discomfort that has troubled her on several occasions in 2025.
Such performances signaled a promising season, in which the player advanced into the international top 30 after a long gap since her previous ranking, ended with three successive defeats.
The athlete was close to victory with three match points prior to falling to Jessica Pegula in round three in the Beijing tournament last month.
Raducanu won 28 victories this year and advanced to the semis in Washington, but her standout performance was at March's Miami Open.
Ranked first in Britain advanced to the quarters of the WTA 1000 event, overcoming Emma Navarro, the eighth seed en route then falling in three sets to fourth-ranked Pegula.
She was coached by trainer Mark Petchey from the Miami event through Wimbledon, with Roig assuming the role in time for the US Open.
The initial agreement with the former trainer of Nadal was until the end of the season but the collaboration persists, with a training block pencilled in for the end of the year.
The athlete revealed that her three-day trial with Roig after Wimbledon was like a "covert operation" as they tried to keep the meeting secret.
The player was close to overcoming Sabalenka, the world number one at the first competition with Roig in Cincinnati in August.
The coach also accompanied Raducanu in New York, where she advanced to round three then falling to Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon winner.
