British tennis star Emma Raducanu concludes her season and has decided to continue with coach into the 2026 season.
Raducanu made it to the third stage in three out of four major tournaments in the current campaign.
Emma Raducanu from Great Britain has withdrawn from the last two tournaments of the year as a result of the illness she has been fighting in recent days.
Raducanu, aged 22 was due to play in events in Asia but chose to travel back to rest and recuperate before starting her preparations for 2026.
Her upcoming training will involve trainer Francisco Roig, as the pair will keep partnering in 2026.
The tennis professional required blood pressure checks in her opening round against Ann Li in the Wuhan tournament and retired when trailing 6-1 4-1 on a day with extreme humidity.
She needed once more a visit from the doctor at this week's Ningbo Open, where she lost in three sets to Chinese wildcard Zhu Lin in the first round.
Her movement was far from freely in the final set versus Zhu because of back discomfort that has troubled her during parts of the season.
Those results meant an encouraging season, in which the player advanced into the top 30 globally after more than three years for the first time since 2022, ended with three successive defeats.
The athlete was close to victory with three match points then was defeated by American player Jessica Pegula in the third stage in Beijing last month.
Raducanu won twenty-eight matches during 2025 and made it to the semi-final round in Washington, but her standout performance was at the Miami Open in March.
The British number one made the last eight of this WTA 1000 tournament, beating eighth seed Emma Navarro on the way before losing in three sets to the world number four Pegula.
Her coach was Mark Petchey as coach from Miami until Wimbledon, with Roig taking over for the US Open.
The initial agreement with Rafael Nadal's former coach was until the end of the season but they will keep working together, with a training session scheduled late this year.
She mentioned that her three-day trial with Roig post-Wimbledon was like a "covert operation" as they tried to keep the meeting secret.
The player was close to beating world number one Aryna Sabalenka at their first tournament together in Cincinnati during August.
Roig was also with Raducanu in New York, where she made the third stage then falling to 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina.
