Emma Raducanu ends her season and plans to retain coach for 2026.
The British player reached the third round in three out of four Grand Slams during the season.
The British tennis star Emma Raducanu will not compete in her remaining competitions of the year due to a health issue that has affected her over the past 10 days.
Raducanu, aged 22 was scheduled to compete in Tokyo and Hong Kong but chose to travel back to recover prior to beginning her preparations for 2026.
These plans are set to feature coach Francisco Roig, as they have decided to continue collaborating for the upcoming season.
The tennis professional underwent blood pressure monitoring during her first-round match with Ann Li in the Wuhan tournament and stopped playing when losing 6-1 4-1 on an oppressively humid day.
She needed once more medical attention at the recent Ningbo Open, where she was defeated in three sets to Chinese wildcard Zhu Lin in round one.
She was also playing with clear difficulty in the final set versus Zhu because of the lower back problem that has been a concern at times this year.
These outcomes signaled a promising season, in which the player advanced into the top 30 globally after more than three years in more than three years, concluded with three straight losses.
She held three match points prior to falling to Jessica Pegula in round three in last month's Beijing event.
She secured twenty-eight matches during 2025 and reached the semi-finals in Washington, but her most impressive week was at the Miami Open in March.
As Britain's top player advanced to the quarters of this WTA 1000 tournament, beating eighth seed Emma Navarro en route then falling in a three-set match to the world number four 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 former trainer of Nadal was until the end of the season but the collaboration persists, with planned training sessions for the end of the year.
Raducanu told that her three-day trial with Roig post-Wimbledon was like a "black ops mission" as they aimed to maintain secrecy.
She came very close to overcoming Sabalenka, the world number one at their first tournament together in August's Cincinnati tournament.
Roig joined her in the New York tournament, where she advanced to round three prior to losing to Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon winner.