Ethel Sutton Bruce

Ethel Sutton often played against her sisters; together, the Suttons won every Southern California women's singles championship between 1899 and 1915.^[2] Ethel won the title in 1906, 1911, 1912, and 1913.^[3] Ethel also won titles in doubles and mixed doubles events.^[4][5]

Ethel Sutton Bruce wrote a series of articles about tennis for the San Francisco Call newspaper in 1913.^[6] She later co-authored a book, Tennis, Fundamentals and Timing (1938) with her husband.^[7] She also taught tennis in physical education classes for women at the University of California Los Angeles.^[8][9]

In 1947, all four Sutton sisters wore 1890s-style tennis costumes to play at a Santa Monica fundraiser for Children's Hospital Los Angeles.^[10]

Ethel Sutton married Robert O. Bruce; they had a son, Robert. She died in Santa Monica, California in 1957, aged 76 years.^[11]

Ethel Sutton Bruce's brother-in-law was tennis player Tom Bundy. She was the aunt of several tennis players of a younger generation, including Dorothy Cheney and John Doeg. In 1976, Ethel Sutton Bruce, Violet Sutton Hope-Doeg, and Florence Sutton were inducted into the Southern California Tennis Association Hall of Fame.^[12]