Florence Ballin

Florence A. Ballin (1887-1975) was a tennis player from the U.S. She played in the mixed doubles in the early 1900s. She made it to three US Open finals with Bill Tilden.

Career In 1915 Ballin reached the doubles final at the US Indoor Championships, playing with Molla Bjursted.

Ballin reached the final of the mixed doubles competition at the U.S. National Championships on three occasions (1916, 1917, 1919). Each time she partnered with multiple champion Bill Tilden but they lost all three finals.

In 1919, she wrote a tennis book titled Tennis for Girls.

In 1920, she won the women's New Jersey Championships and Long Island Championships. She won the women's lawn tennis championship of Pennsylvania and Eastern States in 1922 defeating Anne Townsend in straight sets.

Grand Slam finals

Mixed doubles (3 runners-up)

ResultYearChampionship SurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 1916 U.S. Championships Grass Bill Tilden Eleonora Sears Willis E. Davis 4–6, 5–7Loss 1917 U.S. Championships Grass Bill Tilden Molla Bjurstedt Irving Wright 12–10, 1–6, 3–6Loss 1919 U.S. Championships Grass Bill Tilden Marion Zinderstein Vincent Richards 6–2, 9–11, 2–6