Emma Raducanu wraps up this year's campaign and plans to retain coach into the 2026 season.
The British player made it to the third stage in three out of four Grand Slam events this year.
Emma Raducanu from Great Britain has pulled out of the last two tournaments in 2025 because of the illness she has been battling in recent days.
At 22 years old was due to play in tournaments in Tokyo and Hong Kong but has decided to fly home to rest and recuperate ahead of launching plans for the 2026 season.
These plans will include her coach Francisco Roig, as the pair have agreed to work together again next season.
She had her blood pressure taken while playing the initial match versus Ann Li in Wuhan last week and retired when behind 6-1 4-1 on an oppressively humid day.
She needed once more medical attention at the recent Ningbo Open, where she was defeated in three sets to Zhu Lin, a Chinese wildcard in the first round.
She was also playing noticeably restricted in the final set versus Zhu due to a lower back issue that has troubled her on several occasions in 2025.
Such performances followed a positive campaign, in which Raducanu rose into the international top 30 after more than three years for the first time since 2022, concluded with three straight losses.
Raducanu had three match points then was defeated by American player Jessica Pegula in the third stage in Beijing last month.
Raducanu won 28 victories this year and made it to the semi-final round in the Washington tournament, but the highlight of her season was at the Miami Open in March.
As Britain's top player advanced to the quarters of this WTA 1000 tournament, defeating eighth seed Emma Navarro en route before losing in three sets to Pegula, ranked fourth.
She worked with Mark Petchey as coach from Miami until Wimbledon, with Francisco Roig stepping in ahead of the US Open.
The initial agreement with Rafael Nadal's former coach was through the season's conclusion but the collaboration persists, with a training block pencilled in for the end of the year.
The athlete revealed that a three-day test period alongside Roig after Wimbledon was like a "covert operation" as the meeting was kept under wraps.
She nearly succeeded to defeating top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka at their first tournament together in Cincinnati during August.
The coach also accompanied Raducanu in New York, where she reached the third round before being beaten by Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon winner.
