British tennis star Emma Raducanu ends the current season and plans to retain her coach through next year.
Raducanu advanced to round three in three out of four major tournaments this year.
The British tennis star Emma Raducanu has withdrawn from the last two tournaments this season because of the illness she has been battling over the past 10 days.
Raducanu, aged 22 was due to play in Tokyo and Hong Kong but opted to return home to recover ahead of launching next year's training.
Those preparations are set to feature trainer Francisco Roig, as both individuals have decided to continue collaborating for the upcoming season.
She underwent blood pressure monitoring in her opening round against Ann Li in Wuhan last week and retired when trailing 6-1 4-1 on a day with extreme humidity.
She needed once more medical attention at this week's Ningbo Open, where she fell in a three-set match to Chinese wildcard Zhu Lin in the opening round.
She was also playing with clear difficulty in the third set versus Zhu owing to back discomfort that has been a concern during parts of the season.
These outcomes followed a positive campaign, in which she climbed into the top 30 globally after a long gap in more than three years, ended with three successive defeats.
She held three match points before losing to American player Jessica Pegula in the third stage in the Beijing tournament last month.
She secured 28 matches this year and made it to the semi-final round in Washington, but the highlight of her season was at the Miami event in March.
The British number one reached the quarter-finals of the WTA 1000 event, defeating eighth seed Emma Navarro on the way then falling in three sets to fourth-ranked Pegula.
She was coached by trainer Mark Petchey from Miami until Wimbledon, with Roig taking over for the US Open.
The first plan with Rafael Nadal's former coach was for the remainder of the year but they will keep working together, with a training session scheduled in the coming months.
The athlete revealed that the trial session with Roig after Wimbledon was like a "covert operation" as they tried to keep the meeting secret.
She nearly succeeded to defeating top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka at the first competition with Roig in Cincinnati in August.
Roig joined her in New York, where she reached the third round before being beaten by 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina.
