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The British tennis star Emma Raducanu will not compete in her final two events in 2025 due to the illness she has been fighting for the last week and a half.

The 22-year-old had planned to participate in events in Asia but has decided to fly home to rest and recuperate ahead of launching next year's training.

These plans are set to feature trainer Francisco Roig, as both individuals have agreed to work together in 2026.

The tennis professional had her blood pressure taken during her first-round match with Ann Li in Wuhan last week and retired when behind 6-1 4-1 on an oppressively humid day.

She again required a visit from the doctor at the recent Ningbo Open, where she lost in three sets to local wildcard Zhu Lin in round one.

Raducanu was also moving far from freely in the final set against Zhu because of a lower back issue that has affected her on several occasions in 2025.

These outcomes meant an encouraging season, in which Raducanu rose into the world's top 30 after more than three years for the first time since 2022, concluded with three straight losses.

Raducanu had three match points then was defeated by American player Jessica Pegula in the third stage in Beijing last month.

She secured twenty-eight matches this year and reached the semi-finals in Washington, but the highlight of her season was at the Miami event in March.

The British number one made the last eight of a premier WTA event, overcoming Emma Navarro, the eighth seed en route before losing in three sets to fourth-ranked Pegula.

She was coached by trainer Mark Petchey from Miami until Wimbledon, with Roig taking over in time for the US Open.

The initial agreement with the former trainer of Nadal was until the end of the season but the collaboration persists, with a training block pencilled in for the end of the year.

Raducanu told that her three-day trial with Roig after Wimbledon was like a "covert operation" 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 Cincinnati in August.

Roig joined her in New York, where she reached the third round before being beaten by Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon winner.