Hilda Wallis

{{short description|Irish tennis player}}

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|birth_date = 12 November 1900

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|death_place = Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland

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Mabel Hilda Wallis (12 November 1900 – 8 December 1979){{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wa/hilda-wallis-1.html |title=Hilda Wallis |accessdate=25 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228103625/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wa/hilda-wallis-1.html |archivedate=28 February 2014 }} was an Irish tennis player.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/789 |title=Hilda Wallis |work=Olympedia |access-date=22 November 2021}}

Wallis reached the final of the Irish Championships at Dublin for the first time in 1921 where she lost to Elizabeth Ryan. She won the Irish title in 1924, 1926, 1930 and 1933.

She participated twice in Wimbledon. In 1924, she lost her second round match against Dorothy Shepherd Barron 0–6, 1–6. Twelve years later, in 1936, she reached the third round but had to pull out of the tournament.{{cite book |last=Barrett |first=John |year=2001 |title=Wimbledon. The Official History of The Championships |location=London |publisher=Harper Collins |isbn=978-0007117079 |pages=295, 317 }}

Wallis participated in the 1924 Summer Olympics at Paris where she reached the quarterfinals in mixed doubles alongside Edwin McCrea.