British tennis star Emma Raducanu wraps up the current season and plans to retain coach through next year.
Emma Raducanu made it to the third stage in three out of four Grand Slam events during the season.
Emma Raducanu from Great Britain will not compete in her remaining competitions of the year due to a medical condition she has been battling 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 recover ahead of launching her preparations for 2026.
Those preparations will involve her coach Francisco Roig, as both individuals have decided to continue collaborating in 2026.
She required blood pressure checks while playing the initial match against Ann Li in Wuhan and retired when trailing 6-1 4-1 on a day with extreme humidity.
She needed once more a visit from the doctor at the recent Ningbo Open, where she lost in three sets to Chinese wildcard Zhu Lin in the first round.
Her movement was with clear difficulty in the deciding set against Zhu due to the lower back problem that has affected her at times this year.
Those results followed a positive campaign, in which she climbed into the international top 30 after more than three years for the first time since 2022, finished with a trio of defeats.
She held three match points then was defeated by Jessica Pegula in the third round in last month's Beijing event.
She secured 28 matches this year and advanced to the semis in the Washington tournament, but her most impressive week was at March's Miami Open.
The British number one made the last eight of this WTA 1000 tournament, defeating eighth seed Emma Navarro during the tournament prior to a loss in three sets to Pegula, ranked fourth.
She worked with Mark Petchey as coach between Miami and Wimbledon, with Roig taking over for the US Open.
The initial agreement with the ex-coach of Rafael Nadal was for the remainder of the year but the partnership will continue, with a training session scheduled for the end of the year.
Raducanu told that a three-day test period with Roig post-Wimbledon was like a "black ops mission" as they tried to keep the meeting secret.
The player was close to overcoming Sabalenka, the world number one at the first competition with Roig in Cincinnati in August.
The coach also accompanied Raducanu in New York, where she advanced to round three then falling to Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon winner.
