Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is done with the Greta Garbo approach – at least for now.

Having spent 18 months without a coach following his split with long-time mentor Eric Winogradsky early in 2011, Tsonga has now linked up with Australian Roger Rasheed, the former coach of Lleyton Hewitt and Tsonga’s countryman Gael Monfils.

The stated aim for both player and coach is for the world No.7 to fulfil his immense promise and join the list of major winners.

“My career was always about taking the next step, always trying to improve something in your game,” Tsonga, 27, said on Thursday after beating Japan’s Go Soeda 6-3 7-6 (7-1) 6-3 to advance to the third round of the Australian Open.

“Sometimes you have a coach and sometimes you need to be alone.

“To think about your game, all you want, all your expectation.

“So for me it was good to be alone at this time and then I did another step and I decided to come back to a coach.”

Former Swedish screen siren Garbo is best remembered for saying “I want to be alone”.

Tsonga wants to be best remembered for winning majors.

The Frenchman’s best grand slam result to date came at Melbourne Park back in 2008, when he advanced to the final only to be beaten by Novak Djokovic as the Serb won the first of his five major titles.

Tsonga has also reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon in each of the last two years, famously beating Roger Federer in 2011 after dropping the opening two sets.

“I’ve had some good results (at the grand slams) but I want to take the next step and it’s maybe to win one,” he said.

“Today I’m working for that and I’m doing everything to achieve these things.

“I don’t have too many goals.

“The only goal is to play well in that kind of tournament.”