The 22-year-old tennis player Emma Raducanu wraps up the current season and plans to retain her coach into the 2026 season.
Emma Raducanu advanced to round three in three Grand Slam tournaments Grand Slam events during the season.
Britain's Emma Raducanu will not compete in the last two tournaments in 2025 due to a medical condition she has been fighting over the past 10 days.
The 22-year-old had planned to participate 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 trainer Francisco Roig, as they have agreed to work together in 2026.
Raducanu had her blood pressure taken during her first-round match versus Ann Li in Wuhan and retired when behind 6-1 4-1 on an oppressively humid day.
Another medical visit was necessary a doctor's assessment at the Ningbo Open this week, where she fell in a three-set match to Chinese wildcard Zhu Lin in round one.
Raducanu was also moving far from freely in the third set in the match with Zhu because of the lower back problem that has affected her during parts of the season.
Those results signaled a promising season, in which Raducanu rose into the world's top 30 after more than three years 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 Jessica Pegula in the third round in the Beijing tournament last month.
Raducanu won twenty-eight matches during 2025 and advanced to the semis in Washington, but her standout performance was at the Miami Open in March.
As Britain's top player advanced to the quarters of the WTA 1000 event, overcoming Emma Navarro, the eighth seed en route before losing in a three-set match to fourth-ranked Pegula.
Her coach was trainer Mark Petchey between Miami and Wimbledon, with Roig taking over ahead of the US Open.
The first plan with the ex-coach of Rafael Nadal was through the season's conclusion but they will keep working together, with a training block pencilled in for the end of the year.
The athlete revealed that her three-day trial alongside Roig after Wimbledon was like a "black ops mission" as they tried to keep the meeting secret.
She came very close to beating world number one Aryna Sabalenka at the first competition with Roig in Cincinnati during August.
The coach also accompanied Raducanu in New York, where she made the third stage then falling to Rybakina, champion at Wimbledon in 2022.
