British tennis star Emma Raducanu concludes her season and has decided to continue with trainer into the 2026 season.
Raducanu reached the third round in three out of four Grand Slam events in the current campaign.
The British tennis star Emma Raducanu has withdrawn from her remaining competitions of the year due to a medical condition she has been fighting over the past 10 days.
Raducanu, aged 22 had planned to participate in Tokyo and Hong Kong but chose to travel back to recover prior to beginning her preparations for 2026.
Her upcoming training will involve her coach Francisco Roig, as the pair will keep partnering for the upcoming season.
Raducanu had her blood pressure taken in her opening round versus Ann Li in the Wuhan tournament and stopped playing when trailing 6-1 4-1 on a very muggy occasion.
She again required a doctor's assessment at the recent Ningbo Open, where she lost in three sets to Zhu Lin, a Chinese wildcard in the first round.
She was also playing noticeably restricted in the deciding set in the match with Zhu owing to back discomfort that has troubled her on several occasions in 2025.
These outcomes signaled a promising season, in which Raducanu rose into the top 30 globally after a long gap for the first time since 2022, ended with three successive defeats.
The athlete was close to victory with three match points prior to falling to Pegula in round three in the Beijing tournament last month.
She secured twenty-eight matches in the current season and made it to the semi-final round in the Washington tournament, but her standout performance was at March's Miami Open.
The British number one advanced to the quarters of this WTA 1000 tournament, overcoming Emma Navarro, the eighth seed on the way before losing in a three-set match to Pegula, ranked fourth.
Her coach was trainer Mark Petchey from the Miami event through Wimbledon, with Roig assuming the role for the US Open.
The original arrangement with the ex-coach of Rafael Nadal was through the season's conclusion but they will keep working together, with planned training sessions in the coming months.
Raducanu told that her three-day trial alongside Roig after Wimbledon was like a "black ops mission" as they tried to keep the meeting secret.
She nearly succeeded to defeating top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka at their initial event as a team in August's Cincinnati tournament.
Roig joined her in New York, where she reached the third round then falling to Rybakina, champion at Wimbledon in 2022.
