British tennis star Emma Raducanu ends the current season and plans to retain coach into the 2026 season.
Emma Raducanu advanced to round three in three Grand Slam tournaments Grand Slam events in the current campaign.
Britain's Emma Raducanu will not compete in her remaining competitions of the year because of a medical condition that has affected her in recent days.
The 22-year-old was due to play in Tokyo and Hong Kong but has decided to fly home to regain her health before starting plans for the 2026 season.
Those preparations are set to feature trainer Francisco Roig, as they have decided to continue collaborating in 2026.
Raducanu underwent blood pressure monitoring during her first-round match versus Ann Li in Wuhan and retired when trailing 6-1 4-1 on an oppressively humid day.
She again required medical attention at the recent Ningbo Open, where she fell in a three-set match to local wildcard Zhu Lin in the opening round.
Her movement was with clear difficulty in the final set in the match with Zhu owing to the lower back problem that has been a concern on several occasions in 2025.
Those results meant an encouraging season, in which the player advanced into the international top 30 after a long gap in more than three years, finished with a trio of defeats.
She held three match points prior to falling to Jessica Pegula in round three in Beijing last month.
Raducanu won twenty-eight matches in the current season and made it to the semi-final round in Washington, but her most impressive week was at the Miami event in March.
Ranked first in Britain made the last eight of a premier WTA event, overcoming Emma Navarro, the eighth seed on the way prior to a loss in three sets to fourth-ranked Pegula.
She worked with trainer Mark Petchey between Miami and Wimbledon, with Roig taking over ahead of the US Open.
The first plan with the former trainer of Nadal was through the season's conclusion but the collaboration persists, with a training block pencilled in for the end of the year.
The athlete revealed that the trial session alongside Roig after Wimbledon was like a "black ops mission" as they aimed to maintain secrecy.
She came very close to beating world number one Aryna Sabalenka at their initial event as a team in Cincinnati in August.
The coach also accompanied Raducanu in New York, where she reached the third round prior to losing to Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon winner.
