The 22-year-old tennis player Emma Raducanu concludes her season and plans to retain her coach through next year.
Emma Raducanu made it to the third stage in three out of four major tournaments during the season.
Britain's Emma Raducanu has pulled out of her final two events of the year as a result of a medical condition she has been battling over the past 10 days.
The 22-year-old was due to play in tournaments in Tokyo and Hong Kong but has decided to fly home to regain her health before starting her preparations for 2026.
Her upcoming training will involve trainer Francisco Roig, as the pair have agreed to work together in 2026.
The tennis professional required blood pressure checks in her opening round against Ann Li in Wuhan last week and retired when losing 6-1 4-1 on an oppressively humid day.
She needed once more a visit from the doctor at the Ningbo Open this week, where she lost in three sets to Chinese wildcard Zhu Lin in the first round.
She was also playing noticeably restricted in the final set versus Zhu owing to the lower back problem that has troubled her at times this year.
Such performances signaled a promising season, in which she climbed into the world's top 30 after a long gap in more than three years, ended with three successive defeats.
The athlete was close to victory with three match points then was defeated by American player Jessica Pegula in the third round in the Beijing tournament last month.
Raducanu won 28 victories during 2025 and reached the semi-finals in Washington, but her most impressive week was at the Miami Open in March.
As Britain's top player advanced to the quarters of a premier WTA event, beating eighth seed Emma Navarro during the tournament before losing in three sets to the world number four Pegula.
She worked with Mark Petchey from Miami until Wimbledon, with Roig taking over for the US Open.
The initial agreement with the ex-coach of Rafael Nadal was through the season's conclusion but the partnership will continue, with a training block pencilled in late this year.
She mentioned that her three-day trial with Roig after Wimbledon was like a "covert operation" as the meeting was kept under wraps.
She came very close to beating world number one Aryna Sabalenka at their initial event as a team in Cincinnati during August.
Roig was also with Raducanu in the New York tournament, where she made the third stage prior to losing to Rybakina, champion at Wimbledon in 2022.
