British tennis star Emma Raducanu ends this year's campaign and plans to retain coach into the 2026 season.
Emma Raducanu advanced to round three in three of the four Grand Slam events during the season.
The British tennis star Emma Raducanu has withdrawn from her final two events in 2025 because of a medical condition that has affected her for the last week and a half.
The 22-year-old was due to play in tournaments in Tokyo and Hong Kong but chose to travel back to recover prior to beginning plans for the 2026 season.
Those preparations will involve her coach Francisco Roig, as the pair have agreed to work together in 2026.
Raducanu underwent blood pressure monitoring while playing the initial match with Ann Li in Wuhan and retired when behind 6-1 4-1 on a day with extreme humidity.
She again required a doctor's assessment at this week's Ningbo Open, where she lost in three sets to local wildcard Zhu Lin in the opening round.
She was also playing with clear difficulty in the deciding set versus Zhu due to a lower back issue that has been a concern at times this year.
Those results followed a positive campaign, in which she climbed into the top 30 globally after a long gap in more than three years, finished with a trio of defeats.
The athlete was close to victory with three match points prior to falling to American player Jessica Pegula in the third stage in last month's Beijing event.
Raducanu won twenty-eight matches this year and made it to the semi-final round in Washington, but her most impressive week was at the Miami event in March.
Ranked first in Britain made the last eight of the WTA 1000 event, defeating eighth seed Emma Navarro during the tournament prior to a loss in three sets to fourth-ranked Pegula.
She was coached by Mark Petchey from Miami until Wimbledon, with Francisco Roig stepping in in time for the US Open.
The original arrangement with the former trainer of Nadal was through the season's conclusion but they will keep working together, with a training block pencilled in late this year.
The athlete revealed that her three-day trial alongside Roig after 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 initial event as a team in August's Cincinnati tournament.
Roig joined her in New York, where she made the third stage prior to losing to Rybakina, champion at Wimbledon in 2022.