British tennis star Emma Raducanu ends the current season and will keep her coach into the 2026 season.
Emma Raducanu made it to the third stage in three of the four Grand Slams this year.
Emma Raducanu from Great Britain will not compete in her final two events of the year due to the illness she has been fighting in recent days.
Raducanu, aged 22 had planned to participate in Tokyo and Hong Kong but opted to return home to recover before starting next year's training.
Those preparations will involve coach Francisco Roig, as both individuals have decided to continue collaborating again next season.
She required blood pressure checks while playing the initial match versus Ann Li in Wuhan and stopped playing when trailing 6-1 4-1 on a very muggy occasion.
Another medical visit was necessary a doctor's assessment at this week's Ningbo Open, where she was defeated in three sets to local wildcard Zhu Lin in the first round.
She was also playing with clear difficulty in the third set against Zhu because of back discomfort that has affected her during parts of the season.
Such performances followed a positive campaign, in which the player advanced into the top 30 globally after more than three years since her previous ranking, finished with a trio of defeats.
She held three match points before losing to Jessica Pegula in the third stage in the Beijing tournament last month.
She secured 28 matches this year and made it to the semi-final round in Washington, but her standout performance 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.
She was coached by Mark Petchey as coach from Miami until Wimbledon, with Francisco Roig stepping in in time for the US Open.
The first plan with Rafael Nadal's former coach 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 "secret mission" as they aimed to maintain secrecy.
The player was close to beating world number one Aryna Sabalenka at their initial event as a team in Cincinnati in August.
Roig was also with Raducanu in the New York tournament, where she reached the third round then falling to Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon winner.
