🔗 Share this article The 22-year-old tennis player Emma Raducanu ends this year's campaign and plans to retain her coach into the 2026 season. Raducanu made it to the third stage in three of the four Grand Slams in the current campaign. Emma Raducanu from Great Britain has withdrawn from her final two events of the year because of the illness she has been battling in recent days. The 22-year-old was scheduled to compete in tournaments in Tokyo and Hong Kong but has decided to fly home to regain her health before starting next year's training. Her upcoming training will involve coach Francisco Roig, as they have agreed to work together for the upcoming season. She had her blood pressure taken during her first-round match with Ann Li in Wuhan and stopped playing when losing 6-1 4-1 on an oppressively humid day. She needed once more medical attention at this week's Ningbo Open, where she fell in a three-set match to local wildcard Zhu Lin in the first round. Her movement was noticeably restricted in the third set versus Zhu due to back discomfort that has troubled her on several occasions in 2025. Such performances followed a positive campaign, in which Raducanu rose into the world's top 30 for the first time in more than three years, finished with a trio of defeats. Raducanu had three match points before losing to Pegula in the third round in the Beijing tournament last month. The player achieved twenty-eight matches in the current season and advanced to the semis in the Washington tournament, but her most impressive week was at the Miami event in March. As Britain's top player reached the quarter-finals of this WTA 1000 tournament, overcoming Emma Navarro, the eighth seed en route before losing in a three-set match to Pegula, ranked fourth. Her coach was Mark Petchey as coach from Miami until Wimbledon, with Roig assuming the role for the US Open. The initial agreement with the former trainer of Nadal was for the remainder of the year but the partnership will continue, with a training block pencilled in for the end of the year. She mentioned that her three-day trial with Roig after Wimbledon was like a "black ops mission" as the meeting was kept under wraps. 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 New York, where she advanced to round three before being beaten by Rybakina, champion at Wimbledon in 2022.