British tennis star Emma Raducanu wraps up her season and plans to retain trainer into the 2026 season.
Emma Raducanu made it to the third stage in three Grand Slam tournaments Grand Slams in the current campaign.
Emma Raducanu from Great Britain will not compete in her remaining competitions in 2025 due to the illness she has been battling for the last week and a half.
At 22 years old was due to play in Tokyo and Hong Kong but has decided to fly home to recover ahead of launching plans for the 2026 season.
Those preparations are set to feature trainer Francisco Roig, as the pair have decided to continue collaborating in 2026.
She required blood pressure checks 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 needed once more a visit from the doctor at this week's Ningbo Open, where she lost in three sets to local wildcard Zhu Lin in round one.
Raducanu was also moving noticeably restricted in the third set against Zhu owing to a lower back issue that has affected her at times this year.
These outcomes followed a positive campaign, in which Raducanu rose into the top 30 globally for the first time for the first time since 2022, concluded with three straight losses.
She held three match points before losing to Jessica Pegula in the third round in last month's Beijing event.
Raducanu won 28 victories this year and made it to the semi-final round in the Washington tournament, but her standout performance was at March's Miami Open.
As Britain's top player made the last eight of this WTA 1000 tournament, defeating eighth seed Emma Navarro on the way then falling in three sets to Pegula, ranked fourth.
She was coached by Mark Petchey as coach from the Miami event through 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 the partnership will continue, with a training block pencilled in late this year.
She mentioned that a three-day test period alongside Roig after Wimbledon was like a "black ops mission" as the meeting was kept under wraps.
She came very close to beating world number one Aryna Sabalenka at their initial event as a team in Cincinnati in August.
Roig joined her in New York, where she reached the third round prior to losing to Rybakina, champion at Wimbledon in 2022.
