The 22-year-old tennis player Emma Raducanu wraps up the current season and has decided to continue with coach into the 2026 season.
The British player reached the third round in three out of four major tournaments in the current campaign.
Emma Raducanu from Great Britain has pulled out of the last two tournaments in 2025 because of a health issue she has been fighting for the last week and a half.
The 22-year-old had planned to participate in tournaments in Tokyo and Hong Kong but chose to travel back to regain her health before starting plans for the 2026 season.
Those preparations will involve her coach Francisco Roig, as the pair will keep partnering again next season.
The tennis professional underwent blood pressure monitoring in her opening round versus Ann Li in Wuhan last week and retired when losing 6-1 4-1 on a very muggy occasion.
She again required a doctor's assessment at the Ningbo Open this week, where she was defeated in three sets to local wildcard Zhu Lin in the first round.
Raducanu was also moving with clear difficulty in the third set in the match with Zhu due to back discomfort that has affected her during parts of the season.
These outcomes meant an encouraging season, in which she climbed into the world's top 30 after more than three years in more than three years, ended with three successive defeats.
The athlete was close to victory with three match points then was defeated by Pegula in the third round in last month's Beijing event.
The player achieved 28 matches during 2025 and made it to the semi-final round in Washington, but her standout performance was at the Miami Open in March.
The British number one reached the quarter-finals of a premier WTA event, beating eighth seed Emma Navarro en route before losing in a three-set match to fourth-ranked Pegula.
She worked with Mark Petchey as coach from the Miami event through Wimbledon, with Francisco Roig stepping in for the US Open.
The first plan 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 for the end of the year.
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.
She came very close to defeating top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka at the first competition with Roig in August's Cincinnati tournament.
The coach also accompanied Raducanu in New York, where she advanced to round three then falling to Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon winner.
