Apart from team competitions, he clinched international championships for Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria, Romania and Slovakia in various events.

[1] Iván Balás was born in 1894 in Elemir, Bečkerek (renamed Zrenjanin in 1946), Banat, then part of Austria-Hungary and now Serbia.

[1] Balás' first public triumph was recorded in 1922 in the men's singles of the National Championship in Novi Sad.

On the third ball, the game was suspended due to bad weather, and so the match was decided after the first two days' results.

The organizers agreed not to wait on Monday, but to pass the remaining two dead rubbers and the victory to India.

[5] In 1930, he earned the second place in mixed doubles at the Bucharest International Championship (lost to Ghica Poulief and Nini Golescu)[5] In Cluj-Napoca he lifted the doubles' trophy with partner Béla Kehrling, defeating Romanian champion Constantin Cantacuzino and Alexandru Botez; he also finished third in singles and mixed contest.