Background
Blackman 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.
Blackman 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.
In 1983 he returned to the United States and attended the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy.
He later represented Barbados. Blackman beat future Grand Slam winners Michael Chang and Petr Korda en route to the semi-finals of the 1986 United States Open Juniors and was also a semi-finalist at the same event a year later, with MaliVai Washington in the doubles. The right-handed Blackman made his first Grand Slam appearance in the 1990 United States Open, where he lost a three set match to Martin Jaite in the first round.
In 1994 he played in his two further Grand Slams, at the French Open and United States Open.
At Roland Garros he was unable to better his previous effort and again exited in the opening round, this time to countryman Bryan Shelton in four sets. At his home event he only entered the main draw of the doubles, with Ivan Baron.
The pair lost their only match to Canadians Daniel Nestor and Greg Rusedski. He appeared in 10 rubbers for the Barbados team during his career, winning his first five matches and losing his final five.
Singles: (1) Doubles: (3).
He was also a member of two National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Championship winning teams while at Stanford.