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3 unusual facts about Martin Blackman


Martin Blackman

He started on the Grand Prix tennis circuit in 1987 when, at the age of just 16, he appeared at Indianapolis and had a win over world number 74 Luiz Mattar.

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.

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.



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