Emma Raducanu ends her season and plans to retain her coach for 2026.
Emma Raducanu reached the third round in three of the four Grand Slams this year.
The British tennis star Emma Raducanu has withdrawn from her remaining competitions of the year because of a health issue she has been battling over the past 10 days.
At 22 years old had planned to participate in events in Asia but has decided to fly home to recover ahead of launching next year's training.
Her upcoming training are set to feature her coach Francisco Roig, as they have agreed to work together for the upcoming season.
She underwent blood pressure monitoring during her first-round match against Ann Li in Wuhan last week and stopped playing when trailing 6-1 4-1 on a day with extreme humidity.
She again required a doctor's assessment at the recent Ningbo Open, where she fell in a three-set match to Zhu Lin, a Chinese wildcard in round one.
Her movement was far from freely in the third set in the match with Zhu due to a lower back issue that has troubled her during parts of the season.
Those results meant an encouraging season, in which she climbed into the world's top 30 after more than three years in more than three years, finished with a trio of defeats.
She held three match points before losing to American player Jessica Pegula in the third round in last month's Beijing event.
Raducanu won 28 matches in the current season and advanced to the semis in Washington, but the highlight of her season was at March's Miami Open.
Ranked first in Britain advanced to the quarters of the WTA 1000 event, beating eighth seed Emma Navarro during the tournament prior to a loss in a three-set match to Pegula, ranked fourth.
She worked with Mark Petchey from Miami until Wimbledon, with Francisco Roig stepping in in time for the US Open.
The original arrangement with Rafael Nadal's former coach was for the remainder of the year but the partnership will continue, with planned training sessions for the end of the year.
The athlete revealed that the trial session alongside Roig after Wimbledon was like a "covert operation" as they tried to keep the meeting secret.
She came very close to overcoming Sabalenka, the world number one at their first tournament together in Cincinnati during August.
The coach also accompanied Raducanu in the New York tournament, where she advanced to round three before being beaten by 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina.
