The 22-year-old tennis player Emma Raducanu concludes her season and plans to retain trainer into the 2026 season.

The British tennis star Emma Raducanu has withdrawn from the last two tournaments this season because of a health issue she has been fighting for the last week and a half.

At 22 years old had planned to participate in events in Asia but opted to return home to regain her health before starting her preparations for 2026.

These plans will involve coach Francisco Roig, as they have decided to continue collaborating in 2026.

She required blood pressure checks while playing the initial match with Ann Li in Wuhan last week and retired when losing 6-1 4-1 on a very muggy occasion.

She again required medical attention at this week's Ningbo Open, where she fell in a three-set match to Zhu Lin, a Chinese wildcard in the opening round.

Raducanu was also moving with clear difficulty in the third set against Zhu owing to the lower back problem that has affected her on several occasions in 2025.

Those results followed a positive campaign, in which the player advanced into the international top 30 after a long gap in more than three years, finished with a trio of defeats.

Raducanu had three match points then was defeated by Pegula in the third round in last month's Beijing event.

She secured twenty-eight matches this year and reached the semi-finals in the Washington tournament, but the highlight of her season was at the Miami Open 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 the world number four Pegula.

She was coached by trainer Mark Petchey between Miami and Wimbledon, with Francisco Roig stepping in ahead of the US Open.

The first plan with Rafael Nadal's former coach was through the season's conclusion but the collaboration persists, with a training session scheduled in the coming months.

Raducanu told that a three-day test period 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 August's Cincinnati tournament.

Roig joined her in New York, where she advanced to round three then falling to Rybakina, champion at Wimbledon in 2022.