British tennis star Emma Raducanu concludes the current season and will keep trainer for 2026.
Emma Raducanu made it to the third stage in three of the four major tournaments during the season.
Britain's Emma Raducanu has pulled out of her final two events of the year because of a health issue she has been battling in recent days.
Raducanu, aged 22 had planned to participate in events in Asia but has decided to fly home to regain her health before starting next year's training.
Those preparations will include coach Francisco Roig, as the pair will keep partnering again next season.
Raducanu had her blood pressure taken while playing the initial match with Ann Li in Wuhan last week and stopped playing when losing 6-1 4-1 on a day with extreme humidity.
She needed once more medical attention at this week's Ningbo Open, where she fell in a three-set match to local wildcard Zhu Lin in the first round.
Raducanu was also moving with clear difficulty in the deciding set in the match with Zhu owing to the lower back problem that has been a concern on several occasions in 2025.
These outcomes meant an encouraging season, in which she climbed into the top 30 globally after a long gap since her previous ranking, ended with three successive defeats.
The athlete was close to victory with three match points before losing to Pegula in round three in last month's Beijing event.
The player achieved twenty-eight matches this year and made it to the semi-final round in the Washington tournament, but her most impressive week was at the Miami event in March.
The British number one reached the quarter-finals of this WTA 1000 tournament, beating eighth seed Emma Navarro during the tournament then falling in a three-set match to Pegula, ranked fourth.
Her coach was trainer Mark Petchey between Miami and Wimbledon, with Roig assuming the role 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 session scheduled late this year.
Raducanu told that her three-day trial alongside Roig after Wimbledon was like a "covert operation" as the meeting was kept under wraps.
The player was close to defeating top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka at the first competition with Roig in August's Cincinnati tournament.
Roig joined her in the New York tournament, where she reached the third round prior to losing to 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina.
