How do coaches and athletes build successful partnerships?

The 2021 US Open tennis champion Emma Radacanu is looking for the 10th coach of her career so how do coaches and athletes build successful partnerships?

The BBC’s Lee James is joined by tennis journalist Molly McElwee and renowned boxing coach Joe Gallagher. McElwee believes Radacanu and Francis Roig had a difference in philosophy in how to play and that a player needs to have faith in a coach if a partnership is going to work for the long-term. She also tells us change can be a good thing for an athlete.

Gallagher has led a number of fighters to world titles and he’s been named coach of the year on multiple occasions. He tells Lee how he builds a relationship with a fighter and says it can take up to two years to be in sync with a boxer. He also admits he’s sometimes guilty of getting too emotionally attached to his athletes.

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