British tennis star Emma Raducanu concludes the current season and will keep her coach into the 2026 season.
The British player advanced to round three in three Grand Slam tournaments Grand Slam events in the current campaign.
Emma Raducanu from Great Britain has pulled out of her remaining competitions of the year due to a health issue she has been battling for the last week and a half.
At 22 years old was scheduled to compete in tournaments in Tokyo and Hong Kong but chose to travel back to rest and recuperate prior to beginning next year's training.
These plans will involve her coach Francisco Roig, as the pair have decided to continue collaborating for the upcoming season.
She underwent blood pressure monitoring 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 Chinese wildcard Zhu Lin in round one.
She was also playing noticeably restricted in the final set in the match with Zhu because of back discomfort that has troubled her at times this year.
Those results signaled a promising season, in which the player advanced into the international top 30 for the first time for the first time since 2022, concluded with three straight losses.
She held three match points then was defeated by Jessica Pegula in round three in the Beijing tournament last month.
Raducanu won 28 matches during 2025 and reached the semi-finals in Washington, but her most impressive week was at March's Miami Open.
As Britain's top player made the last eight of this WTA 1000 tournament, beating eighth seed Emma Navarro during the tournament prior to a loss in three sets to fourth-ranked Pegula.
She was coached by Mark Petchey as coach from the Miami event through Wimbledon, with Roig assuming the role in time for the US Open.
The original arrangement with the former trainer of Nadal was for the remainder of the year but the partnership will continue, with planned training sessions for the end of the year.
Raducanu told that her three-day trial with Roig after Wimbledon was like a "secret mission" as they tried to keep the meeting secret.
She came very close to overcoming Sabalenka, the world number one at their initial event as a team in Cincinnati in August.
Roig joined her in New York, where she made the third stage prior to losing to Rybakina, champion at Wimbledon in 2022.
