TORONTO, Canada — Jamaican born Karl Hale, Rogers Cup tournament director, teamed up with over 150 people on Thursday in Toronto, Canada, to launch the Caribbean Cup Tennis Series, which now comprises six masters tournaments: Anguilla Cup, Antigua Cup, Barbados Cup, Cayman Cup, Jamaica Cup, St Vincent Cup and the Year End Championships in Curacao.
The launch event raised over $10,000 for Caribbean charities. A number of celebrities were in attendance, including former world kick boxing champion Joe Valtellini, former squash world number one and world champion Jonathon Power and Dwight Drummond from CBC. Fitzroy Huggins, consul general of St Vincent and Grenadines, gave a speech welcoming the newest event in the series.