Emma Raducanu wraps up her season and plans to retain trainer through next year.
Emma Raducanu advanced to round three in three of the four major tournaments during the season.
Emma Raducanu from Great Britain has pulled out of the last two tournaments in 2025 as a result of a health issue she has been battling in recent days.
The 22-year-old was due to play in tournaments in Tokyo and Hong Kong but chose to travel back to regain her health before starting plans for the 2026 season.
Her upcoming training will include her coach Francisco Roig, as they have decided to continue collaborating for the upcoming season.
Raducanu underwent blood pressure monitoring while playing the initial match against Ann Li in the Wuhan tournament and stopped playing when behind 6-1 4-1 on a very muggy occasion.
She needed once more a visit from the doctor at the Ningbo Open this week, where she fell in a three-set match to Zhu Lin, a Chinese wildcard in round one.
Raducanu was also moving with clear difficulty in the third set against Zhu owing to back discomfort that has troubled her during parts of the season.
Those results signaled a promising season, in which Raducanu rose into the top 30 globally after more than three years in more than three years, finished with a trio of defeats.
She held three match points then was defeated by Jessica Pegula in the third stage in the Beijing tournament last month.
She secured 28 victories this year and advanced to the semis in the Washington tournament, but her most impressive week was at the Miami Open in March.
The British number one made the last eight of a premier WTA event, beating eighth seed Emma Navarro en route then falling in three sets to Pegula, ranked fourth.
She worked with trainer Mark Petchey from Miami until Wimbledon, with Roig taking over in time for the US Open.
The original arrangement with the ex-coach of Rafael Nadal was for the remainder of the year but the collaboration persists, with a training block pencilled in late this year.
Raducanu told that her three-day trial alongside Roig after Wimbledon was like a "secret mission" as they tried to keep the meeting secret.
She came very close to beating world number one Aryna Sabalenka at their initial event as a team in Cincinnati during August.
Roig was also with Raducanu in New York, where she made the third stage then falling to 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina.
