Cliff Sutter

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Clifford S. Sutter (August 31, 1910 – May 24, 2000) was an American tennis player.

Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Sutter played his collegiate tennis at Tulane University, where he won the NCAA singles championship in 1930 and 1932. In 1931, he won the singles championship and was a doubles finalist at the Cincinnati Masters. He also won the doubles title in Cincinnati in 1930 with his long-time tennis partner Maurice Bayon.^[1]

Sutter was ranked World No. 5 for 1932 by A. Wallis Myers of The Daily Telegraph.^[2]

His brother, Ernie, also was a tennis player. Ernie reached the quarterfinals in singles in Cincinnati in 1934.

There is no known relationship between the tennis players Cliff and Ernie Sutter of New Orleans and the John Sutter who operated a mill on the American Fork River near San Francisco, California when gold was found on the property in 1848 (that discovery at Sutter's Mill touched off the Gold Rush that started that year and exploded the next year, 1849).

Clifford Sutter was born to Fred W. Sutter of New Orleans Louisiana, who died December 17, 1943 and resided at 5526 Loyola Avenue, New Orleans.

References

↑ New York Times website
↑ United States Lawn Tennis Association (1972). Official Encyclopedia of Tennis (First Edition), p. 424.

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Name	Sutter, Cliff
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Short description	Tennis player
Date of birth	1910
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Date of death	2000
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The Sutters' father, Fred Sutter, was a baker. His sons the Sutter brothers, Eddie, Cliff and Ernie, built their own grass tennis court next to their property on Loyola Avenue in New Orleans. Cliff Sutter became the only male New Orleanian to play the main draw singles at Wimbledon, in 1933, where he beat Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm (who would later win the French Championships twice, 1934 & '36, reach the Wimbledon final twice, 1935 & '36, and the U.S. final once, 1937). Cliff's younger brother Ernie, who like Cliff won the Intercollegiate singles twice in the 1930s, was severely wounded while serving in the U.S. Army in North Africa in 1943 during WWII, curtailing his tennis career. Ernie became a top lawyer with Shell Oil Co. after the war and eventually made a tennis comeback, winning the U.S. Veterans' Doubles Championship at the Longwood Cricket Club in Boston with his brother Cliff in 1961.

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