The 22-year-old tennis player Emma Raducanu concludes her season and has decided to continue with coach for 2026.
Emma Raducanu advanced to round three in three Grand Slam tournaments major tournaments during the season.
Britain's Emma Raducanu has pulled out of her remaining competitions in 2025 because of a health issue that has affected her over the past 10 days.
Raducanu, aged 22 was due to play in events in Asia but has decided to fly home to rest and recuperate before starting plans for the 2026 season.
These plans will involve trainer Francisco Roig, as both individuals will keep partnering for the upcoming season.
Raducanu required blood pressure checks while playing the initial match with Ann Li in the Wuhan tournament and retired when trailing 6-1 4-1 on a day with extreme humidity.
Another medical visit was necessary 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 with clear difficulty in the final set in the match with Zhu due to a lower back issue that has been a concern at times this year.
Those results followed a positive campaign, in which Raducanu rose 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 before losing to Jessica Pegula in the third stage in the Beijing tournament last month.
The player achieved twenty-eight matches during 2025 and advanced to the semis in the Washington tournament, but the highlight of her season was at the Miami Open in March.
The British number one reached the quarter-finals of a premier WTA event, defeating eighth seed Emma Navarro en route before losing in three sets to the world number four Pegula.
She was coached by Mark Petchey from Miami until Wimbledon, with Roig assuming the role ahead of the US Open.
The initial agreement with Rafael Nadal's former coach was until the end of the season but the collaboration persists, with a training block pencilled in in the coming months.
The athlete revealed that her three-day trial with Roig after Wimbledon was like a "secret mission" as they tried to keep the meeting secret.
She came very close to defeating top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka at the first competition with Roig in Cincinnati in August.
Roig joined her in New York, where she reached the third round prior to losing to Rybakina, champion at Wimbledon in 2022.
