🔗 Share this article The 22-year-old tennis player Emma Raducanu wraps up her season and will keep coach for 2026. Raducanu advanced to round three in three Grand Slam tournaments major tournaments this year. Emma Raducanu from Great Britain has withdrawn from her final two events this season due to a medical condition that has affected her for the last week and a half. At 22 years old was scheduled to compete in events in Asia but chose to travel back to rest and recuperate ahead of launching next year's training. Those preparations will involve trainer Francisco Roig, as the pair will keep partnering in 2026. She required blood pressure checks while playing the initial match against Ann Li in Wuhan last week and withdrew when behind 6-1 4-1 on an oppressively humid day. She needed once more medical attention at the Ningbo Open this week, where she fell in a three-set match to Zhu Lin, a Chinese wildcard in the opening round. She was also playing far from freely in the final set versus Zhu owing to a lower back issue that has been a concern on several occasions in 2025. Such performances signaled a promising season, in which Raducanu rose into the top 30 globally after a long gap for the first time since 2022, finished with a trio of defeats. The athlete was close to victory with three match points prior to falling to Jessica Pegula in the third stage in Beijing last month. Raducanu won 28 matches during 2025 and made it to the semi-final round in Washington, but her standout performance 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 three sets to fourth-ranked Pegula. Her coach was Mark Petchey from Miami until Wimbledon, with Francisco Roig stepping in ahead of the US Open. The initial agreement 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. Raducanu told that the trial session with Roig post-Wimbledon was like a "secret mission" as they tried to keep the meeting secret. She nearly succeeded to defeating top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka at their first tournament together in Cincinnati during August. Roig joined her in New York, where she reached the third round prior to losing to 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina.