Raducanu set for Ningbo and Tokyo with Australian Open seeding in sight

Stay up to speed with the latest news and results as British tennis star Emma Raducanu plays through the closing months of 2025.

Where is Raducanu playing next?

Emma Raducanu's push for a seeded spot at the 2026 Australian Open enters its final stretch.

Raducanu retired from her last match against Ann Li at the Wuhan Open in early October, but will play Lin Zhu as the WTA Tour heads to Ningbo next week (October 13-19).

Should Raducanu win that match, she will take on Mirra Andreeva in the following round.

After Ningbo, Raducanu could feature at Guangzhou (October 20-26) and Hong Kong (October 27-November 2) over the rest of the month to push for a coveted seeding spot at the first Grand Slam of the year in Melbourne next January - which she will achieve if she is in the top 32 in the world.

"I've just got to do my best in the next few months until Australia," Raducanu said. "Keep working to close the gap and try to get seeded for Melbourne. I think I'm improving for sure in the last few months. I just need to stay consistent."

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What is Raducanu's current ranking?

Raducanu regained the British No 1 ranking from Katie Boulter on her run to the semi-finals at the Washington Open.

In the WTA live rankings, Raducanu sits at No 32 but she will now be hoping to crack the top 20 to end a successful season.

Her career-high ranking was No 10, back in July 2022.

Who is Raducanu's coach?

Raducanu has been coached by Spaniard Francis Roig since August 2025. Roig was a former coach to Rafael Nadal for the majority of the 22-time Grand Slam champion's career.

Prior to that, Raducanu was being coached by former British No 1 Mark Petchey and enjoyed some positive results since linking up on an informal basis in March.

Raducanu had been without a permanent coach since parting ways with Nick Cavaday in January. Before adding Petchey to her team, the British tennis star had a two-week trial period with Vladimir Platenik.

How has Raducanu's 2025 gone so far?

Raducanu began her 2025 campaign at the Australian Open where she reached the third round, losing to Iga Swiatek in straight sets.

The British No 2 returned to action at the Singapore Open where she lost a gruelling three-hour battle to world No 101 Cristina Bucsa from Spain in the first round.

Further disappointing first-round losses followed in the space of a week, first in Abu Dhabi against former Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova and then to Ekaterina Alexandrova in Qatar.

She snapped a four-match losing streak with victory over former world No 3 Maria Sakkari in the first round of the Dubai Tennis Championships, only to fall to a straight-sets loss against Karolina Muchova in the next round.

Raducanu returned to action at Indian Wells in March, losing in the first round to Japan's Moyuka Uchijima before putting together a superb run in Miami.

But Raducanu recorded her best result in a WTA 1000 event when she reached the quarter-finals of the Miami Open in March, weeks on from being knocked out in the first round at Indian Wells.

Raducanu pulled out of Great Britain's team for the Billie Jean King Cup qualifying round with ties scheduled against Netherlands and Germany, which Britain won to reach the finals later this year.

Her clay-court season began at the Madrid Open, where she impressively recorded a straight-sets win over Suzan Lamens in the opening round before losing out to Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk in a competitive 6-4 2-6 6-2 second-round match.

Raducanu beat Maya Joint, Jil Teichmann and Veronika Kudermetova before falling short against fourth seed Coco Gauff in the last 16 of the Italian Open in Rome.

At the Strasbourg Open, Raducanu defeated world No 17 Daria Kasatkina in what was her first career win over a top-20 player on clay, but then needed treatment on her back during a 4-6 6-1 6-3 loss to Danielle Collins at the last-16 stage.

At the French Open, Raducanu opened her campaign with a first-round victory over China's Wang Xinyu but then suffered a second-round defeat to four-time French Open champion Iga Swiatek, losing 6-1 6-2.

At Queen's Club, Raducanu defeated Cristina Bucșa 6-1 6-2 and Rebecca Sramkova 6-4 6-1 to make the quarter-finals before bowing out to top seed Qinwen Zheng 6-2 6-4.

She missed the Berlin Open but took part at the Eastbourne Open. The seventh seed beat Ann Li but then lost to Australian Maya Joint, despite making a miraculous recovery from 5-2 down in the deciding set before losing in the tie-break.

Raducanu returned to Wimbledon, the scene of her 2021 breakthrough, troubled by a back problem since competing at Strasbourg in May. However, she came through her first-round encounter with fellow Brit Mimi Xu 6-3 6-3 before producing arguably her best performance for years with another 6-3 6-3 success, but this time over 2023 champion Marketa Vondrousova.

She then took on world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka in a thrilling match under the roof, losing a close battle 7-6 (8-6) 6-4 to exit in the third round.

Raducanu reached the semi-finals of the WTA 500 Mubadala Citi DC Open in Washington, her third appearance at the hard-court event.

She overcame two-time US Open champion Naomi Osaka in dominant fashion to reach the quarter-finals, before beating Greece's Maria Sakkari to book her place in the final four. There Raducanu was defeated by Anna Kalinskaya in straight sets 6-4 6-3.

She then headed to the WTA 1000 National Bank Open in Montreal where Wimbledon runner-up Amanda Anisimova carved out a comfortable 6-2 6-1 win over Raducanu in the third round, having dispatched Elena-Gabriela Ruse and Peyton Stearns in the first two rounds.

Raducanu closed out preparations for the US Open at the Cincinnati Open as she lost 7-6 (7-3) 4-6 7-6 (7-5) to world No 1 Sabalenka in a contest lasting three hours and nine minutes.

She had breezed through to the third round in New York, winning her first two matches for the loss of only six games, but here she was on the receiving end as former Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina powered to a 6-1 6-2 victory in just 62 minutes.

Raducanu's next assignment was as a wildcard entry in the Korea Open, where she overcame Jaqueline Cristin 6-3 6-4 in the first round. Her tournament came to an end when she squandered three match points to lose in three sets against Krejcikova.

At the China Open, Raducanu crashed out in the third round after suffering an agonising 6-3 6-7 (9-11) 0-6 loss to American Jessica Pegula. Pegula saved three match points in the second-set tie-break as she dug deep to complete a stunning comeback.

A week later at the Wuhan Open, Raducanu was all out of sorts and retired when 6-1 4-1 down to American Ann Li.

How many Grand Slam titles has Raducanu won?

So far, the 2021 US Open victory remains Raducanu's sole success in a major tournament.

She reached the fourth round in Wimbledon that year - a feat she matched in 2024 and might have bettered were it not for injury - but at the Australian and French Opens, she has never progressed beyond the third round.

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