British tennis star Emma Raducanu wraps up her season and will keep her coach through next year.
The British player made it to the third stage in three of the four Grand Slam events in the current campaign.
Emma Raducanu from Great Britain will not compete in the last two tournaments of the year due to a medical condition she has been battling for the last week and a half.
The 22-year-old was due to play in Tokyo and Hong Kong but chose to travel back to rest and recuperate ahead of launching next year's training.
Her upcoming training will include her coach Francisco Roig, as they have agreed to work together again next season.
Raducanu had her blood pressure taken while playing the initial match with Ann Li in the Wuhan tournament and withdrew when losing 6-1 4-1 on an oppressively humid day.
She needed once more a visit from the doctor at this week's Ningbo Open, where she was defeated in three sets to Chinese wildcard Zhu Lin in the first round.
She was also playing far from freely in the final set against Zhu due to the lower back problem that has been a concern at times this year.
Those results followed a positive campaign, in which Raducanu rose into the world's top 30 after more than three years in more than three years, finished with a trio of defeats.
The athlete was close to victory with three match points prior to falling to American player Jessica Pegula in the third round in last month's Beijing event.
Raducanu won 28 matches 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 en route before losing in three sets to Pegula, ranked fourth.
She worked with Mark Petchey as coach from Miami until Wimbledon, with Roig taking over in time for the US Open.
The initial agreement with Rafael Nadal's former coach was until the end of the season but they will keep working together, with a training block pencilled in in the coming months.
Raducanu told that a three-day test period with Roig post-Wimbledon was like a "black ops mission" as the meeting was kept under wraps.
The player was close to beating world number one Aryna Sabalenka at their initial event as a team in Cincinnati during August.
Roig was also with Raducanu in New York, where she made the third stage before being beaten by Rybakina, champion at Wimbledon in 2022.
