Action tennis: the beginning

Pete Klein

Executive Producer, Creator of Action Tennis

Pete has worked in a variety of industries before fulfilling his childhood dream of becoming a professional Stunt Man in the Film & Television industry. Over the past 20 years, he’s worked on many of the top TV & Film projects being produced in the New York area and was part of the JOHN WICK fight team that won a Taurus World Stunt Award in 2014. Prior to his stunt career, Pete spent nearly 15 years working in live sports broadcast production & programming for CBS Sports, USA Networks & SyFy. Born & raised in Ohio, he graduated from Boston College where he played football & volleyball.

The idea for Action Tennis first entered Pete’s mind in 2015 while visiting a home-based CrossFit box that used a rundown tennis court as a tire-flipping runway. At first site, the thought of playing tennis while those tractor tires were rolling around & other objects were being hurled at the players seemed like a wildly fun, alternative, “stunt man” version of the traditional sport. Over the next 2 years, Pete developed the concept with help from friends & colleagues in the sports, entertainment & digital/interactive media spaces. From there, he built the foundation for an aggressively athletic, physically demanding, extremely unconventional hybrid sports-entertainment property titled THE ACTION TENNIS SERIES.

Currently, The ATS is preparing for it’s first full-scale competition while actively recruiting uniquely skilled athletes who will help grow Action Tennis into the kind of radical, real-world sport the world is ready for.