🔗 Share this article The 22-year-old tennis player Emma Raducanu ends the current season and plans to retain her coach through next year. Emma Raducanu advanced to round three in three Grand Slam tournaments major tournaments in the current campaign. Britain's Emma Raducanu has pulled out of her remaining competitions this season as a result of the illness she has been battling for the last week and a half. At 22 years old was scheduled to compete in tournaments in Tokyo and Hong Kong but chose to travel back to rest and recuperate prior to beginning next year's training. These plans are set to feature trainer Francisco Roig, as the pair have decided to continue collaborating again next season. She underwent blood pressure monitoring while playing the initial match with Ann Li in Wuhan and withdrew when trailing 6-1 4-1 on a day with extreme humidity. Another medical visit was necessary a doctor's assessment at the Ningbo Open this week, where she was defeated in three sets to local wildcard Zhu Lin in round one. Her movement was noticeably restricted in the deciding set against Zhu due to a lower back issue that has affected her at times this year. Such performances meant an encouraging season, in which Raducanu rose into the top 30 globally after more than three years in more than three years, concluded with three straight losses. The athlete was close to victory with three match points then was defeated by American player Jessica Pegula in the third round in last month's Beijing event. The player achieved 28 victories during 2025 and reached the semi-finals in the Washington tournament, but her most impressive week was at the Miami Open in March. The British number one reached the quarter-finals of this WTA 1000 tournament, beating eighth seed Emma Navarro on the way prior to a loss in three sets to the world number four Pegula. Her coach was Mark Petchey from Miami until Wimbledon, with Roig taking over ahead of the US Open. The first plan with Rafael Nadal's former coach was for the remainder of the year but they will keep working together, with planned training sessions in the coming months. She mentioned that the trial session alongside Roig after 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 their first tournament together in Cincinnati in August. Roig joined her in New York, where she made the third stage before being beaten by Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon winner.