The 22-year-old tennis player Emma Raducanu concludes the current season and has decided to continue with coach for 2026.
Raducanu reached the third round in three Grand Slam tournaments Grand Slams in the current campaign.
Emma Raducanu from Great Britain has withdrawn from the last two tournaments this season as a result of a health issue she has been fighting in recent days.
At 22 years old was scheduled to compete in Tokyo and Hong Kong but has decided to fly home to regain her health ahead of launching next year's training.
Those preparations will include trainer Francisco Roig, as they will keep partnering for the upcoming season.
She had her blood pressure taken while playing the initial match against Ann Li in the Wuhan tournament and stopped playing when trailing 6-1 4-1 on an oppressively humid day.
Another medical visit was necessary a visit from the doctor at the recent Ningbo Open, where she lost in three sets to local wildcard Zhu Lin in round one.
She was also playing noticeably restricted in the deciding set versus Zhu because of back discomfort that has affected her on several occasions in 2025.
Such performances signaled a promising season, in which she climbed into the top 30 globally for the first time for the first time since 2022, ended with three successive defeats.
The athlete was close to victory with three match points before losing to American player Jessica Pegula in the third stage in the Beijing tournament last month.
She secured twenty-eight matches in the current season and reached the semi-finals in Washington, but her standout performance was at the Miami Open in March.
Ranked first in Britain advanced to the quarters of this WTA 1000 tournament, beating eighth seed Emma Navarro en route then falling in three sets to Pegula, ranked fourth.
Her coach was Mark Petchey as coach from Miami until Wimbledon, with Roig taking over ahead of the US Open.
The initial agreement with the former trainer of Nadal was through the season's conclusion but the collaboration persists, with planned training sessions late this year.
Raducanu told that a three-day test period with Roig after Wimbledon was like a "black ops mission" as the meeting was kept under wraps.
She came very close to overcoming Sabalenka, the world number one at the first competition with Roig in Cincinnati in August.
Roig joined her in New York, where she reached the third round prior to losing to Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon winner.
