Karl Hale

Series Founder

Karl has played competitive tennis internationally, participated as a player and coach in Davis Cup for Jamaica, and is a former Fed Cup coach for Canada.

Karl is president of the PTR/PPR (the largest tennis and pickleball coaching organization in the world with over 20,000 members) in 2019. Karl is passionate about growing the sport of Pickleball and looks forward to seeing you all on different stops in the series.

He also founded the Daniel Nestor Charity and Helping Hands Jamaica Foundation which have raised over $3,000,000 built 21 schools in Jamaica and supported NYGH (North York General Hospital).

Kitt Hanley

TOUR MANAGER

Kitt has been playing squash since she was a kid. She played into her twenties and took a break while she had her four kids. She got back into the sport back in 2016 and then started coaching in 2017.

She’s very active in coaching at a few different clubs. She is very proud of developing women’s T&D teams to a couple of the clubs and has her first men’s T&D team this season.

She’s now gotten herself into playing pickle ball and is absolutely loving playing it, as well as enjoying the social aspect and introducing more people into the sport. She’s looking forward to growing an active pickle ball community at the Premier Racquet Clubs Markham.

Peyman Foroughi

HEAD OF GRAPHIC DESIGN AND DIGITAL MEDIA

Peyman is an experienced media expert with +12 years of design experience in digital and print industry. His design expertise combined with his marketing education helps our brand communicate better with its audience.