Coast player gets chance

BERNARD partner has break.

Jesse Russell, who studies at Bond University, is this month France-bound for an International Tennis Federation tournament.

The 18-year-old’s opportunity to play in what he described as “the largest competition I’ve been part of to date” comes after a fourmonth exchange program that took him to Clemson University in South Carolina in the US.

“I have been extremely lucky to have had the opportunities afforded to me so far,” said Russell.

Indigenous player Russell moved from Alice Springs to the Gold Coast on a sporting scholarship to The Southport School in 2014. Tomic’s scored hitting his big