Emma Raducanu wraps up the current season and plans to retain trainer for 2026.
Emma Raducanu advanced to round three in three of the four major tournaments this year.
The British tennis star Emma Raducanu will not compete in her final two events of the year due to a medical condition that has affected her over the past 10 days.
Raducanu, aged 22 had planned to participate in Tokyo and Hong Kong but has decided to fly home to rest and recuperate prior to beginning next year's training.
Her upcoming training will include trainer Francisco Roig, as the pair have decided to continue collaborating in 2026.
She had her blood pressure taken while playing the initial match versus Ann Li in Wuhan and retired when trailing 6-1 4-1 on a very muggy occasion.
Another medical visit was necessary a visit from the doctor at the Ningbo Open this week, where she fell in a three-set match to Chinese wildcard Zhu Lin in the first round.
Raducanu was also moving noticeably restricted in the third set against Zhu due to a lower back issue that has been a concern during parts of the season.
Those results meant an encouraging season, in which Raducanu rose into the international top 30 after more than three years since her previous ranking, finished with a trio of defeats.
She held three match points then was defeated by American player Jessica Pegula in the third stage in last month's Beijing event.
Raducanu won 28 matches during 2025 and advanced to the semis in Washington, but her standout performance was at the Miami event in March.
The British number one made the last eight of the WTA 1000 event, overcoming Emma Navarro, the eighth seed on the way before losing in three sets to fourth-ranked Pegula.
She was coached by Mark Petchey from Miami until Wimbledon, with Roig assuming the role ahead of the US Open.
The original arrangement with the ex-coach of Rafael 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 a three-day test period alongside Roig after Wimbledon was like a "covert operation" as they tried to keep the meeting secret.
She nearly succeeded to overcoming Sabalenka, the world number one at the first competition with Roig in Cincinnati in August.
Roig joined her in New York, where she made the third stage before being beaten by Rybakina, champion at Wimbledon in 2022.
