Martin Blackman

Martin Blackman (born March 5, 1970) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. He later represented Barbados.

Early life Blackman was born in New York City, before moving to Barbados when he was 2 years old. He spent much of his childhood in Barbados, where his father Courtney Blackman served as Governor of the Central Bank and he attended the Harrison College School. For two summers, Blackman's family lived on the Upper West Side in New York and he trained at the Port Washington Tennis Academy. In 1983 he returned to the United States and attended the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy on a tennis scholarship.

Junior career Blackman beat future Grand Slam winners Michael Chang and Petr Korda en route to the semi-finals of the 1986 US Open Juniors and was also a semi-finalist at the same event a year later, with MaliVai Washington in the doubles. The biggest junior title that he won was the 1986 USTA National Championships (16s), in both the singles and doubles, partnering Chang.

Blackman achieved a career-high singles ranking of No. 158 and No. 142 in men's doubles, and eventually retired from the ATP Tour in 1995.

Coaching career

Blackman was head men's tennis coach at American University from 1998 to 2004, when he became Director of the Junior Tennis Champions Center at College Park, Maryland He was Senior Director of Talent Identification and Development for the United States Tennis Association (USTA) from 2009 to 2011, serving on the Board of Directors from 2003 to 2004 and 2005–06. He founded the Blackman Tennis Academy in Boca Raton, Florida in 2011. In 2015, Blackman re-joined the USTA, succeeding Patrick McEnroe as General Manager of Player Development.

Personal life Blackman holds an Economics Degree from George Washington University and from the prestigious school, Stanford University. He lives in Florida with his wife and their four children.

Challenger titles Singles

Doubles