British tennis star Emma Raducanu concludes the current season and plans to retain coach for 2026.
Emma Raducanu advanced to round three in three out of four Grand Slams during the season.
Britain's Emma Raducanu will not compete in her remaining competitions this season due to a medical condition that has affected her for the last week and a half.
Raducanu, aged 22 was scheduled to compete in events in Asia but chose to travel back to rest and recuperate before starting plans for the 2026 season.
Her upcoming training will include trainer Francisco Roig, as the pair have decided to continue collaborating again next season.
Raducanu required blood pressure checks during her first-round match with Ann Li in Wuhan last week and stopped playing when behind 6-1 4-1 on a day with extreme humidity.
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 local wildcard Zhu Lin in round one.
Raducanu was also moving far from freely in the deciding set in the match with Zhu owing to a lower back issue that has affected her at times this year.
Those results meant an encouraging season, in which the player advanced into the international top 30 after more than three years in more than three years, concluded with three straight losses.
The athlete was close to victory with three match points prior to falling to Jessica Pegula in round three in last month's Beijing event.
The player achieved twenty-eight matches during 2025 and reached the semi-finals in Washington, but the highlight of her season was at the Miami Open in March.
Ranked first in Britain reached the quarter-finals of the WTA 1000 event, overcoming Emma Navarro, the eighth seed on the way then falling in a three-set match to Pegula, ranked fourth.
She worked with Mark Petchey as coach from the Miami event through Wimbledon, with Roig taking over ahead of the US Open.
The original arrangement with the ex-coach of Rafael Nadal was for the remainder of the year but they will keep working together, with a training session scheduled late this year.
The athlete revealed that her three-day trial with Roig post-Wimbledon was like a "covert operation" as they aimed to maintain secrecy.
She came very close to defeating top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka at the first competition with Roig in Cincinnati during August.
Roig was also with Raducanu in New York, where she reached the third round before being beaten by 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina.