🔗 Share this article The 22-year-old tennis player Emma Raducanu ends the current season and has decided to continue with her coach for 2026. Emma Raducanu advanced to round three in three of the four major tournaments in the current campaign. Emma Raducanu from Great Britain has pulled out of the last two tournaments of the year due to the illness she has been battling in recent days. Raducanu, aged 22 was scheduled to compete in Tokyo and Hong Kong but chose to travel back to recover before starting plans for the 2026 season. These plans will include coach Francisco Roig, as they have agreed to work together again next season. The tennis professional underwent blood pressure monitoring during her first-round match against Ann Li in the Wuhan tournament and stopped playing when behind 6-1 4-1 on an oppressively humid day. She needed once more a doctor's assessment at the recent Ningbo Open, where she fell in a three-set match to local wildcard Zhu Lin in the opening round. She was also playing far from freely in the final set in the match with Zhu because of a lower back issue that has troubled her on several occasions in 2025. Those results signaled a promising season, in which she climbed into the top 30 globally for the first time since her previous ranking, concluded with three straight losses. The athlete was close to victory with three match points before losing to American player Jessica Pegula in the third round in the Beijing tournament last month. The player achieved 28 matches during 2025 and reached the semi-finals in Washington, but the highlight of her season was at March's Miami Open. The British number one advanced to the quarters of the WTA 1000 event, defeating eighth seed Emma Navarro during the tournament then falling in three sets to the world number four Pegula. Her coach was trainer Mark Petchey from the Miami event through Wimbledon, with Francisco Roig stepping in ahead of the US Open. The original arrangement with the ex-coach of Rafael Nadal was for the remainder of the year but they will keep working together, with a training block pencilled in late this year. The athlete revealed that the trial session with Roig after Wimbledon was like a "black ops mission" as the meeting was kept under wraps. She nearly succeeded to beating world number one Aryna Sabalenka at their initial event as a team in August's Cincinnati tournament. Roig was also with Raducanu in the New York tournament, where she reached the third round then falling to Rybakina, champion at Wimbledon in 2022.