Emma Raducanu wraps up this year's campaign and will keep her coach for 2026.
Emma Raducanu advanced to round three in three Grand Slam tournaments Grand Slam events during the season.
The British tennis star Emma Raducanu has pulled out of her remaining competitions in 2025 because of the illness she has been battling in recent days.
Raducanu, aged 22 had planned to participate in Tokyo and Hong Kong but has decided to fly home to recover prior to beginning next year's training.
Her upcoming training will involve coach Francisco Roig, as both individuals have decided to continue collaborating in 2026.
She had her blood pressure taken in her opening round versus Ann Li in the Wuhan tournament and withdrew when losing 6-1 4-1 on a day with extreme humidity.
She needed once more a doctor's assessment at the recent Ningbo Open, where she fell in a three-set match to Zhu Lin, a Chinese wildcard in the first round.
She was also playing with clear difficulty in the third set versus Zhu because of the lower back problem that has affected her on several occasions in 2025.
These outcomes meant an encouraging season, in which she climbed into the international top 30 after more than three years in more than three years, ended with three successive defeats.
She held three match points then was defeated by American player Jessica Pegula in round three in the Beijing tournament last month.
Raducanu won twenty-eight matches this year and made it to the semi-final round in Washington, but the highlight of her season was at the Miami event in March.
Ranked first in Britain made the last eight of this WTA 1000 tournament, beating eighth seed Emma Navarro on the way prior to a loss in three sets to the world number four Pegula.
She worked with trainer Mark Petchey from Miami until Wimbledon, with Francisco Roig stepping in for the US Open.
The first plan with the former trainer of Nadal was until the end of the season but the collaboration persists, with a training session scheduled in the coming months.
She mentioned that her three-day trial with Roig post-Wimbledon was like a "black ops mission" as the meeting was kept under wraps.
She nearly succeeded to beating world number one Aryna Sabalenka at their first tournament together in Cincinnati in August.
Roig joined her in the New York tournament, where she made the third stage then falling to 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina.
