🔗 Share this article Emma Raducanu ends the current season and has decided to continue with her coach for 2026. Raducanu advanced to round three in three out of four Grand Slam events during the season. The British tennis star Emma Raducanu has withdrawn from her remaining competitions in 2025 as a result of the illness she has been fighting for the last week and a half. Raducanu, aged 22 was due to play in Tokyo and Hong Kong but has decided to fly home to rest and recuperate before starting next year's training. These plans will include coach Francisco Roig, as the pair have decided to continue collaborating in 2026. Raducanu had her blood pressure taken during her first-round match with Ann Li in the Wuhan tournament and withdrew when losing 6-1 4-1 on an oppressively humid day. She needed once more medical attention at the Ningbo Open this week, where she was defeated in three sets to Chinese wildcard Zhu Lin in the opening round. Raducanu was also moving far from freely in the deciding set against Zhu due to back discomfort that has troubled her at times this year. These outcomes signaled a promising season, in which the player advanced into the top 30 globally after a long gap for the first time since 2022, finished with a trio of defeats. She held three match points then was defeated by Pegula in the third stage in last month's Beijing event. She secured 28 matches this year and made it to the semi-final round in Washington, but her most impressive week was at the Miami Open in March. Ranked first in Britain reached the quarter-finals of a premier WTA event, defeating eighth seed Emma Navarro during the tournament before losing in a three-set match to the world number four Pegula. Her coach was Mark Petchey from Miami until Wimbledon, with Roig taking over for the US Open. The first plan with the former trainer of Nadal was through the season's conclusion but the collaboration persists, with a training session scheduled for the end of the year. She mentioned that a three-day test period with Roig post-Wimbledon was like a "covert operation" as the meeting was kept under wraps. The player was close to defeating top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka at their initial event as a team in August's Cincinnati tournament. Roig was also with Raducanu in New York, where she reached the third round prior to losing to Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon winner.