British tennis star Emma Raducanu wraps up this year's campaign and has decided to continue with her coach into the 2026 season.
The British player reached the third round in three out of four Grand Slam events during the season.
Emma Raducanu from Great Britain will not compete in the last two tournaments in 2025 due to the illness she has been fighting for the last week and a half.
Raducanu, aged 22 had planned to participate in tournaments in Tokyo and Hong Kong but chose to travel back to regain her health ahead of launching next year's training.
These plans will involve coach Francisco Roig, as the pair have decided to continue collaborating for the upcoming season.
Raducanu underwent blood pressure monitoring while playing the initial match with Ann Li in the Wuhan tournament and retired when trailing 6-1 4-1 on an oppressively humid day.
She needed once more medical attention at the recent Ningbo Open, where she fell in a three-set match to local wildcard Zhu Lin in round one.
Raducanu was also moving far from freely in the third set in the match with Zhu due to a lower back issue that has troubled her on several occasions in 2025.
Such performances meant an encouraging season, in which Raducanu rose into the world's top 30 after a long gap for the first time since 2022, concluded with three straight losses.
She held three match points then was defeated by Jessica Pegula in the third stage in last month's Beijing event.
The player achieved 28 victories during 2025 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 reached the quarter-finals of this WTA 1000 tournament, defeating eighth seed Emma Navarro during the tournament prior to a loss in three sets to Pegula, ranked fourth.
Her coach was Mark Petchey from the Miami event through Wimbledon, with Roig taking over for the US Open.
The first plan with Rafael Nadal's former coach was for the remainder of the year but they will keep working together, with a training block pencilled in in the coming months.
She mentioned that her three-day trial alongside Roig after Wimbledon was like a "secret mission" as they aimed to maintain secrecy.
She nearly succeeded to beating world number one Aryna Sabalenka at their first tournament together in Cincinnati in August.
Roig joined her in New York, where she reached the third round before being beaten by Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon winner.
