Merete Balling-Stockmann

{{short description|Danish tennis player}}

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| singlesrecord = 15–31

| highestsinglesranking = No. 440 (11 March 1991)

| doublesrecord = 33–28

| doublestitles = 4 ITF

| highestdoublesranking = No. 273 (23 September 1991)

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Merete Balling-Stockmann (born 10 December 1970) is a Danish former professional tennis player.

Balling-Stockmann is the daughter of tennis player Pia Balling, who was a five-time Danish national singles champion in the 1960s.{{cite news |last1=Jørgensen |first1=Hanne B. |title=Tennis dengang og nu : 17-årige Merete Balling Stockmann blev dansk mester tyve år efter sin moder |work=Politiken |date=5 September 1988 |language=Danish}}

A Danish national title winner herself in 1990, Balling-Stockmann competed briefly on the professional tennis tour and won four ITF doubles tournaments. In 1990 she also represented the Denmark Federation Cup team in a tie against Luxembourg in Atlanta, where she and Sofie Albinus lost a dead rubber doubles match to Marie-Christine Goy and Karin Kschwendt.{{cite news |title=Scoreboard |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/106144161/ |work=The Indianapolis Star |date=26 July 1990}}

In the early 1990s she played college tennis for Pepperdine University.{{cite news |title=Women's Tennis / NCAA Championships : Pepperdine and USC Are Eliminated |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-13-sp-34603-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=13 May 1993}}