The 22-year-old tennis player Emma Raducanu ends her season and has decided to continue with her coach into the 2026 season.
Emma Raducanu reached the third round in three Grand Slam tournaments major tournaments during the season.
The British tennis star Emma Raducanu has withdrawn from the last two tournaments of the year due to a health issue she has been battling in recent days.
Raducanu, aged 22 was due to play in tournaments in Tokyo and Hong Kong but chose to travel back to recover prior to beginning plans for the 2026 season.
Her upcoming training are set to feature her coach Francisco Roig, as the pair have decided to continue collaborating in 2026.
She had her blood pressure taken in her opening round against Ann Li in the Wuhan tournament and withdrew when losing 6-1 4-1 on a day with extreme humidity.
She needed once more a doctor's assessment at the recent Ningbo Open, where she fell in a three-set match to local wildcard Zhu Lin in the opening round.
She was also playing with clear difficulty in the deciding set against 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 world's top 30 for the first time for the first time since 2022, concluded with three straight losses.
Raducanu had three match points prior to falling to Jessica Pegula in round three in Beijing last month.
The player achieved 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.
The British number one made the last eight of a premier WTA event, overcoming Emma Navarro, the eighth seed during the tournament before losing in three sets to the world number four Pegula.
She was coached by Mark Petchey from Miami until Wimbledon, with Roig taking over in time for the US Open.
The first plan with Rafael Nadal's former coach was until the end of the season but they will keep working together, with planned training sessions for the end of the year.
Raducanu told that her three-day trial alongside Roig after Wimbledon was like a "secret mission" as the meeting was kept under wraps.
She came very close to overcoming Sabalenka, the world number one at their first tournament together in August's Cincinnati tournament.
Roig was also with Raducanu in the New York tournament, where she made the third stage before being beaten by 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina.
