🔗 Share this article Emma Raducanu wraps up the current season and will keep her coach for 2026. The British player made it to the third stage in three Grand Slam tournaments Grand Slam events during the season. The British tennis star Emma Raducanu has pulled out of her remaining competitions this season as a result of the illness she has been battling for the last week and a half. Raducanu, aged 22 was due to play in tournaments in Tokyo and Hong Kong but chose to travel back to regain her health prior to beginning next year's training. These plans are set to feature coach Francisco Roig, as the pair have agreed to work together for the upcoming season. She had her blood pressure taken in her opening round versus Ann Li in Wuhan and stopped playing when trailing 6-1 4-1 on an oppressively humid day. She needed once more a visit from the doctor at the recent Ningbo Open, where she fell in a three-set match to Zhu Lin, a Chinese wildcard in round one. Raducanu was also moving far from freely in the deciding set in the match with Zhu due to back discomfort that has troubled her during parts of the season. Those results signaled a promising season, in which the player advanced into the world's top 30 for the first time since her previous ranking, ended with three successive defeats. Raducanu had three match points prior to falling to Pegula in the third round in the Beijing tournament last month. She secured 28 victories in the current season and made it to the semi-final round in the Washington tournament, but her most impressive week was at the Miami event in March. The British number one reached the quarter-finals of a premier WTA event, defeating eighth seed Emma Navarro on the way before losing in three sets to fourth-ranked Pegula. Her coach was trainer Mark Petchey from the Miami event through Wimbledon, with Roig assuming the role ahead of the US Open. The first plan with Rafael Nadal's former coach was for the remainder of the year but the partnership will continue, with a training session scheduled in the coming months. Raducanu told that a three-day test period with Roig post-Wimbledon was like a "covert operation" as they aimed to maintain secrecy. She nearly succeeded to overcoming Sabalenka, the world number one at their first tournament together in August's Cincinnati tournament. Roig was also with Raducanu in New York, where she reached the third round then falling to Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon winner.