Ernest Sutter

{{Short description|American tennis player}}

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| fullname = Ernest Malcolm Sutter

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1916|12|02}}

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| death_date = {{death date and age|1988|01|27|1916|12|02}}

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| plays = Right-handed

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| USOpenresult = 2R (1934, 1935, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1940)

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Ernest Malcolm Sutter (December 2, 1916 – January 27, 1988) was an American tennis player.{{cite news |title=Ernie Sutter Tennis Victor |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1939/07/20/archives/ernie-sutter-tennis-victor.html |work=The New York Times |date=July 20, 1939}}

The youngest of three tennis playing brothers, Sutter was a native of New Orleans and played varsity tennis for Tulane University, winning back to back NCAA singles championships in 1936 and 1937. This repeated the accomplishment of brother Cliff who also won the NCAA title twice earlier in the decade.{{cite web |title=Men's Tennis History |url=https://tulanegreenwave.com/sports/2016/6/13/sports-m-tennis-archive-tul-m-tennis-history-html.aspx?id=1399 |website=Tulane University Athletics |language=en}}

Sutter was injured in World War II, while taking part in the North Africa campaign. He was caught in a German heavy artillery barrage near the city of Bizerte and suffered several wounds, the most serious of which was to his playing arm, effectively ending his competitive tennis career.{{cite news |title=Wounder Soldiers Get Best Of Care |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/604652563 |work=Chattanooga Daily Times |date=August 28, 1943}}{{cite news |title=Shell Ends Tennis Career of Sutter |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/435680438 |work=New York Daily News |date=September 1, 1943}}