British tennis star Emma Raducanu wraps up her season and plans to retain her coach through next year.
Emma Raducanu made it to the third stage in three of the four Grand Slams this year.
Emma Raducanu from Great Britain will not compete in the last two tournaments this season as a result of the illness that has affected her in recent days.
The 22-year-old was due to play in events in Asia but opted to return home to rest and recuperate before starting plans for the 2026 season.
These plans will involve her coach Francisco Roig, as both individuals have agreed to work together again next season.
She had her blood pressure taken during her first-round 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 Ningbo Open this week, where she lost in three sets to Chinese wildcard Zhu Lin in the opening round.
Her movement was far from freely in the deciding set versus Zhu because of the lower back problem that has affected her on several occasions in 2025.
Those results meant an encouraging season, in which she climbed into the top 30 globally for the first time for the first time since 2022, ended with three successive defeats.
Raducanu had three match points before losing to 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 the Washington tournament, but her most impressive week was at the Miami Open in March.
The British number one made the last eight of the WTA 1000 event, overcoming Emma Navarro, the eighth seed during the tournament prior to a loss in a three-set match to fourth-ranked Pegula.
She was coached by Mark Petchey as coach between Miami and Wimbledon, with Roig assuming the role ahead of the US Open.
The original arrangement with the ex-coach of Rafael Nadal was through the season's conclusion but the partnership will continue, with a training block pencilled in in the coming months.
She mentioned that her three-day trial with Roig after Wimbledon was like a "covert operation" as they aimed to maintain secrecy.
She nearly succeeded to beating world number one Aryna Sabalenka at the first competition with Roig in August's Cincinnati tournament.
The coach also accompanied Raducanu in New York, where she made the third stage before being beaten by Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon winner.
