British tennis star Emma Raducanu wraps up this year's campaign and will keep her coach into the 2026 season.
The British player reached the third round in three out of four major tournaments in the current campaign.
Britain's Emma Raducanu has withdrawn from her remaining competitions of the year due to the illness she has been fighting in recent days.
The 22-year-old had planned to participate in events in Asia but has decided to fly home to recover ahead of launching next year's training.
These plans will involve coach Francisco Roig, as both individuals have decided to continue collaborating in 2026.
Raducanu underwent blood pressure monitoring during her first-round match with Ann Li in the Wuhan tournament and stopped playing when behind 6-1 4-1 on a day with extreme humidity.
Another medical visit was necessary a doctor's assessment at the recent Ningbo Open, where she fell in a three-set match to local wildcard Zhu Lin in round one.
Her movement was far from freely in the third set in the match with Zhu because of a lower back issue that has troubled her at times this year.
Such performances signaled a promising season, in which the player advanced into the world's top 30 for the first time in more than three years, ended with three successive defeats.
She held three match points before losing to American player Jessica Pegula in round three in last month's Beijing event.
Raducanu won twenty-eight matches during 2025 and reached the semi-finals in Washington, but her most impressive week was at March's Miami Open.
The British number one advanced to the quarters of the WTA 1000 event, beating eighth seed Emma Navarro during the tournament then falling in three sets to fourth-ranked Pegula.
Her coach was Mark Petchey between Miami and Wimbledon, with Roig taking over for the US Open.
The initial agreement with the ex-coach of Rafael Nadal was until the end of the season but the partnership will continue, with planned training sessions in the coming months.
Raducanu told that a three-day test period with Roig post-Wimbledon was like a "secret mission" as they aimed to maintain secrecy.
She nearly succeeded to beating world number one Aryna Sabalenka at the first competition with Roig in Cincinnati during August.
Roig joined her in New York, where she advanced to round three before being beaten by Rybakina, champion at Wimbledon in 2022.
