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Australian young gun Thanasi Kokkinakis has split with long time coach Todd Langman.

After a 12-year-old partnership with Langman, the 19-year-old will now team up with Queenslander Ben Mattias, who helped Sam Groth rise up the world rankings in 2015.

โ€œI still want him to win slams, but I just won't be there, so it was disappointing, but I wish him all the best,'' Langman told Fairfax media.

โ€œI think to do what we did was actually pretty incredible, to keep it going as long as we did, and obviously I was a younger guy and we've sort of grown up together and as he progressed as a tennis player I sort of progressed as a coach as well.โ€