Emma Raducanu wraps up 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 this year.
The British tennis star Emma Raducanu has pulled out of her remaining competitions of the year due to a health issue she has been battling in recent days.
At 22 years old was due to play in Tokyo and Hong Kong but chose to travel back to regain her health prior to beginning plans for the 2026 season.
Those preparations will include trainer Francisco Roig, as they will keep partnering for the upcoming season.
She required blood pressure checks during her first-round match versus Ann Li in the Wuhan tournament and stopped playing when behind 6-1 4-1 on a day with extreme humidity.
She again required medical attention at the recent Ningbo Open, where she was defeated in three sets to Chinese wildcard Zhu Lin in the first round.
Raducanu was also moving with clear difficulty in the final set in the match with Zhu owing to back discomfort that has troubled her during parts of the season.
These outcomes signaled a promising season, in which Raducanu rose into the international top 30 after a long gap in more than three years, concluded with three straight losses.
She held three match points then was defeated by American player Jessica Pegula in the third stage in last month's Beijing event.
The player achieved 28 matches during 2025 and made it to the semi-final round in the Washington tournament, but her most impressive week was at the Miami event in March.
As Britain's top player advanced to the quarters of this WTA 1000 tournament, overcoming Emma Navarro, the eighth seed en route prior to a loss in a three-set match to Pegula, ranked fourth.
She was coached by Mark Petchey from Miami until 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 they will keep working together, with a training block pencilled in late this year.
She mentioned that the trial session with Roig post-Wimbledon was like a "covert operation" as the meeting was kept under wraps.
She nearly succeeded to overcoming Sabalenka, the world number one at their first tournament together in August's Cincinnati tournament.
Roig was also with Raducanu in the New York tournament, where she made the third stage prior to losing to Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon winner.
