{{Short description|British tennis player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2022}} {{Infobox tennis biography | name = Teddy Higgs | image = | fullname = Edward Higgs | country_represented = {{Flagu|Great Britain}} | birth_date = {{Birth based on age at death|48|1950|07|12}} | birth_place = | death_date = 27 July 1950 (aged 48) | death_place =Lemsford, England | height = | plays = | careerprizemoney = | singlesrecord = | singlestitles = | Wimbledonresult = 3R (1927) | USOpenresult = 1R (1928) | doublesrecord = | doublestitles = | highestdoublesranking = | WimbledonDoublesresult = QF (1926, 1927) }}
'''Edward Higgs''' (died 27 July 1950) was a British tennis player.
==Early life and career== Higgs grew up Hertfordshire and studied at Haileybury, before competing on the tennis circuit in the 1920s. He won the British Covered Court Championships in 1927, beating Gordon Crole-Rees in the final.<ref>{{cite news |title=Best Player In Britain |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003212/19271019/238/0011 |work=Daily News |date=19 October 1927}}</ref> His best run at Wimbledon came in 1927 when he was beaten in the third round by Jean Borotra in five sets. He made the Wimbledon men's doubles quarter-finals twice. A Davis Cup player for Great Britain in 1927 and 1928, Higgs won eight singles rubbers and lost four.<ref>{{cite web |title=Key Statistics |url=https://www.daviscup.com/en/players/player.aspx?id=800169957 |website=daviscup.com}}</ref>
==Personal life== Higgs was married Enid Joyce Sherring, the daughter of an Indian civil servant,<ref>{{cite news |title=Tennis Player To Wed |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000728/19310904/128/0011 |work=Daily Record |date=4 September 1931}}</ref> on December 10 1931 at Christ Church, East Sheen.<ref>''Times'' Friday September 4 1931</ref> This made him the brother-in-law of Donal Morphy, the founder of Morphy Richards.
Higgs died in 1950 at his Lemsford home, aged 48. At the time of his death he was a member of the British selection committee for the Davis Cup and Wightman Cup.<ref>{{cite news |title="Teddy" Higgs Dies |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001480/19500810/042/0004 |work=Londonderry Sentinel |date=10 August 1950}}</ref>
==See also== *List of Great Britain Davis Cup team representatives
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{ATP|he23}} * {{ITF|edward-higgs/800169957/gbr}} * {{Davis Cup player|800169957}}
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