Emma Raducanu concludes her season and has decided to continue with her coach for 2026.
The British player reached the third round in three of the four Grand Slams during the season.
The British tennis star Emma Raducanu has pulled out of her remaining competitions this season because of a medical condition she has been battling for the last week and a half.
At 22 years old had planned to participate in events in Asia but has decided to fly home to rest and recuperate ahead of launching next year's training.
Those preparations will involve coach Francisco Roig, as they have agreed to work together in 2026.
She underwent blood pressure monitoring in her opening round with Ann Li in the Wuhan tournament and withdrew when losing 6-1 4-1 on a very muggy occasion.
She needed once more a doctor's assessment at the Ningbo Open this week, where she lost in three sets to local wildcard Zhu Lin in the first round.
Her movement was with clear difficulty in the third set against Zhu because of back discomfort that has been a concern on several occasions in 2025.
These outcomes signaled a promising season, in which the player advanced into the top 30 globally after more than three years in more than three years, concluded with three straight losses.
She held three match points before losing to American player Jessica Pegula in the third stage in the Beijing tournament last month.
She secured 28 matches this year and reached the semi-finals in Washington, but her most impressive week was at the Miami Open in March.
Ranked first in Britain made the last eight of the WTA 1000 event, overcoming Emma Navarro, the eighth seed en route then falling in three sets to the world number four Pegula.
She was coached by Mark Petchey from Miami until Wimbledon, with Francisco Roig stepping in ahead of the US Open.
The original arrangement with the ex-coach of Rafael Nadal was until the end of the season but they will keep working together, with a training block pencilled in late this year.
The athlete revealed that the trial session with Roig post-Wimbledon was like a "covert operation" as the meeting was kept under wraps.
She came very close to beating world number one Aryna Sabalenka at the first competition with Roig in Cincinnati in August.
The coach also accompanied Raducanu in New York, where she made the third stage then falling to Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon winner.
