Emma Raducanu ends the current season and has decided to continue with trainer into the 2026 season.
Emma Raducanu advanced to round three in three Grand Slam tournaments Grand Slam events during the season.
The British tennis star Emma Raducanu has withdrawn from the last two tournaments in 2025 as a result of a medical condition she has been fighting in recent days.
At 22 years old was scheduled to compete in tournaments in Tokyo and Hong Kong but chose to travel back to recover prior to beginning plans for the 2026 season.
Those preparations will include her coach Francisco Roig, as they will keep partnering in 2026.
The tennis professional underwent blood pressure monitoring during her first-round match against Ann Li in the Wuhan tournament and withdrew when trailing 6-1 4-1 on an oppressively humid day.
Another medical visit was necessary medical attention at the recent Ningbo Open, where she lost in three sets to local wildcard Zhu Lin in round one.
She was also playing noticeably restricted in the third set versus Zhu owing to the lower back problem that has affected her at times this year.
These outcomes meant an encouraging season, in which she climbed into the international top 30 after more than three years since her previous ranking, concluded with three straight losses.
Raducanu had three match points before losing to Jessica Pegula in the third stage in last month's Beijing event.
She secured 28 matches in the current season and advanced to the semis in Washington, but her most impressive week was at March's Miami Open.
The British number one advanced to the quarters of the WTA 1000 event, overcoming Emma Navarro, the eighth seed during the tournament then falling in a three-set match to Pegula, ranked fourth.
She was coached by trainer Mark Petchey between Miami and Wimbledon, with Francisco Roig stepping in ahead of the US Open.
The initial agreement with the former trainer of Nadal was for the remainder of the year but they will keep working together, with planned training sessions for the end of the year.
She mentioned that a three-day test period with Roig post-Wimbledon was like a "covert operation" as they tried to keep the meeting secret.
She came very close to beating world number one Aryna Sabalenka at the first competition with Roig in August's Cincinnati tournament.
Roig joined her in New York, where she reached the third round then falling to 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina.
