🔗 Share this article Emma Raducanu concludes this year's campaign and will keep trainer into the 2026 season. The British player made it to the third stage in three of the four major tournaments this year. Emma Raducanu from Great Britain will not compete in her final two events in 2025 due to the illness she has been battling over the past 10 days. Raducanu, aged 22 was scheduled to compete in tournaments in Tokyo and Hong Kong but chose to travel back to recover prior to beginning next year's training. Those preparations will include her coach Francisco Roig, as the pair have decided to continue collaborating for the upcoming season. She had her blood pressure taken while playing the initial match against Ann Li in Wuhan last week and stopped playing when behind 6-1 4-1 on a day with extreme humidity. Another medical visit was necessary a doctor's assessment at this week's Ningbo Open, where she lost in three sets to Zhu Lin, a Chinese wildcard in the opening round. She was also playing far from freely in the final set against Zhu owing to back discomfort that has troubled her at times this year. Those results meant an encouraging season, in which she climbed into the world's top 30 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 prior to falling to American player Jessica Pegula in the third stage in the Beijing tournament last month. The player achieved twenty-eight matches this year and advanced to the semis in Washington, but her most impressive week was at the Miami Open in March. Ranked first in Britain advanced to the quarters of a premier WTA event, defeating eighth seed Emma Navarro on the way then falling in three sets to Pegula, ranked fourth. Her coach was trainer Mark Petchey between Miami and Wimbledon, with Roig taking over for the US Open. The first plan with Rafael Nadal's former coach was until the end of the season but the partnership will continue, with planned training sessions for the end of the year. She mentioned that the trial session with Roig post-Wimbledon was like a "covert operation" as they tried to keep the meeting secret. The player was close to beating world number one Aryna Sabalenka at their first tournament together in Cincinnati during August. Roig was also with Raducanu in New York, where she made the third stage then falling to 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina.