French No 1 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has split with Australian coach Roger Rasheed after just a year together.
Tsonga, who skipped the US
Open currently under way in New York to fully recover from a knee injury,
praised Rasheed's contributions to his play, saying that he had learned much
from him since the start of the year.
"But the language
barrier and the difficulties involved in our respective geographic situations
hinders our association and at 28 time is running out for me to achieve my
objectives," Tsonga said in a press release.
"I am currently
looking at several options and I hope things will be clearer in the next few
weeks."
Tsonga was coached by
French Tennis Federation coach Eric Winogradsky from 2004 until 2011 and then
spent a year on his own before turning to Rasheed, who had previously been with
Australian Lleyton Hewitt and another Frenchman, Gael Monfils.
Currently ranked eighth in
the world, Tsonga reached the final of the Australian Open in 2008 where he
lost to Novak Djokovic, but he has yet to win a Grand Slam title.
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