British tennis star Emma Raducanu concludes the current season and plans to retain trainer for 2026.

The British tennis star Emma Raducanu has withdrawn from the last two tournaments in 2025 as a result of the illness she has been fighting in recent days.

Raducanu, aged 22 was scheduled to compete in Tokyo and Hong Kong but has decided to fly home to regain her health ahead of launching plans for the 2026 season.

Those preparations will include trainer Francisco Roig, as the pair have decided to continue collaborating again next season.

Raducanu required blood pressure checks in her opening round against Ann Li in the Wuhan tournament and retired when trailing 6-1 4-1 on a very muggy occasion.

She needed once more a visit from the doctor at the recent Ningbo Open, where she was defeated in three sets to local wildcard Zhu Lin in round one.

Raducanu was also moving far from freely in the deciding set in the match with Zhu because of a lower back issue that has affected her at times this year.

Those results meant an encouraging season, in which she climbed into the top 30 globally after more than three years in more than three years, concluded with three straight losses.

Raducanu had three match points prior to falling to American player Jessica Pegula in round three in the Beijing tournament last month.

The player achieved 28 matches during 2025 and advanced to the semis in the Washington tournament, but her standout performance was at the Miami Open in March.

As Britain's top player advanced to the quarters of this WTA 1000 tournament, beating eighth seed Emma Navarro en route prior to a loss in three sets to fourth-ranked Pegula.

She was coached by Mark Petchey from Miami until Wimbledon, with Roig assuming the role for the US Open.

The first plan with Rafael Nadal's former coach was until the end of the season but they will keep working together, with a training block pencilled in in the coming months.

The athlete revealed that a three-day test period alongside Roig after Wimbledon was like a "black ops mission" as the meeting was kept under wraps.

The player was close to overcoming Sabalenka, the world number one at their first tournament together in August's Cincinnati tournament.

The coach also accompanied Raducanu in New York, where she reached the third round then falling to Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon winner.