British tennis star Emma Raducanu ends this year's campaign and will keep her coach for 2026.
Emma Raducanu advanced to round three in three of the four Grand Slam events during the season.
Britain's Emma Raducanu has withdrawn from her remaining competitions in 2025 due to the illness that has affected her in recent days.
The 22-year-old was scheduled to compete in Tokyo and Hong Kong but has decided to fly home to recover prior to beginning her preparations for 2026.
Her upcoming training will include coach Francisco Roig, as they have agreed to work together again next season.
The tennis professional underwent blood pressure monitoring while playing the initial match against Ann Li in Wuhan and withdrew when losing 6-1 4-1 on a very muggy occasion.
She needed once more a visit from the doctor at the recent Ningbo Open, where she lost in three sets to local wildcard Zhu Lin in the first round.
Raducanu was also moving noticeably restricted in the third set against Zhu owing to back discomfort that has been a concern at times this year.
Those results signaled a promising season, in which she climbed into the international top 30 after more than three years since her previous ranking, ended with three successive defeats.
The athlete was close to victory with three match points prior to falling to American player Jessica 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 Washington, but her most impressive week was at March's Miami Open.
The British number one made the last eight of this WTA 1000 tournament, defeating eighth seed Emma Navarro during the tournament then falling in three sets to fourth-ranked Pegula.
She was coached by Mark Petchey as coach from Miami until Wimbledon, with Roig taking over in time for the US Open.
The first plan with the former trainer of Nadal was through the season's conclusion but the partnership will continue, with a training block pencilled in late this year.
She mentioned that the trial session with Roig post-Wimbledon was like a "covert operation" as they tried to keep the meeting secret.
She came very close to defeating top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka at their first tournament together in Cincinnati during August.
Roig was also with Raducanu in New York, where she made the third stage before being beaten by Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon winner.
