Ernest Malcolm Sutter (December 2, 1916 – January 27, 1988) was an American tennis player. The youngest of three tennis playing brothers, Sutter was a native of

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and played varsity tennis for

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, winning back to back NCAA singles championships in 1936 and 1937. This repeated the accomplishment of brother

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who also won the NCAA title twice earlier in the decade. Sutter was injured in

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, while taking part in the

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. He was caught in a German heavy artillery barrage near the city of

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and suffered several wounds, the most serious of which was to his playing arm, effectively ending his competitive tennis career.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sutter, Ernest 1916 births 1988 deaths American male tennis players American military personnel of World War II Tennis players from New Orleans Tulane Green Wave men's tennis players 20th-century American sportsmen