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Emma Raducanu from Great Britain has withdrawn from her remaining competitions of the year because of the illness she has been fighting in recent days.

At 22 years old was due to play in tournaments in Tokyo and Hong Kong but has decided to fly home to rest and recuperate before starting next year's training.

These plans will include trainer Francisco Roig, as they will keep partnering again next season.

Raducanu had her blood pressure taken during her first-round match with Ann Li in Wuhan last week and withdrew when losing 6-1 4-1 on a very muggy occasion.

Another medical visit was necessary medical attention at this week's Ningbo Open, where she fell in a three-set match to local wildcard Zhu Lin in the first round.

Raducanu was also moving with clear difficulty in the deciding set versus Zhu owing to back discomfort that has been a concern on several occasions in 2025.

Those results meant an encouraging season, in which she climbed into the top 30 globally after a long gap in more than three years, 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 in the current season and made it to the semi-final round in Washington, but her most impressive week was at the Miami event in March.

As Britain's top player made the last eight of this WTA 1000 tournament, beating eighth seed Emma Navarro during the tournament prior to a loss in three sets to Pegula, ranked fourth.

She was coached by Mark Petchey as coach between Miami and Wimbledon, with Roig assuming the role in time for the US Open.

The first plan with the ex-coach of Rafael Nadal was until the end of the season but they will keep working together, with a training session scheduled late this year.

Raducanu told that her three-day trial alongside Roig after Wimbledon was like a "secret mission" as they aimed to maintain secrecy.

She nearly succeeded to defeating top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka at their first tournament together in August's Cincinnati tournament.

The coach also accompanied Raducanu in the New York tournament, where she made the third stage prior to losing to Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon winner.