had lost to Vieira in the 1957 Quebec Open championships in a long semifinal match. Bédard also won the 1957 Canadian Open doubles title partnered by his Davis Cup teammate Don Fontana. 1958 Bédard successfully defended his Canadian Open title in 1958 in Vancouver on grass, defeating eventual American No. 1 Whitney Reed in the final in three straight sets. Bédard had earlier in the season lost to Reed on clay in Toronto in Davis Cup play. Reed would later win two Canadian Open singles titles. Bédard won the Adirondack Invitation tournament at Schroon Lake, New York, defeating his fellow Canadian Davis Cup teammate Lorne Main in the final. At the O'Keefe International at the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club on red clay in Toronto, Bédard defeated Ulf Schmidt and Dick Savitt, winner of the U.S. National Indoor title that year, before losing to Luis Ayala in the semifinal. In August, Bédard won the Quebec Open title beating Val Harit in the final in five sets. 1959 Bédard won the silver medal at the 1959 Pan American Games in Chicago. In the latter event he defeated Mexican Francisco Contreras in the semi-finals but lost the final to Chilean Luis Ayala, thus capturing the silver medal. Bédard also won the 1959 Adirondack Invitation at Schroon Lake, New York defeating American Sidney Schwartz, twice winner of the Eastern Clay Court title, in the final. Bédard won the Quebec Open in August, beating Cuban Reynaldo Garrido in a five set semifinal and Eduardo Zuleta of Ecuador in the final in three straight sets. Bédard was defending champion at the Canadian Open, but lost his quarterfinal match with Reynaldo Garrido, who then defeated Whitney Reed in the semifinal and his own brother Orlando Garrido in the final. 1960 In 1960, Bédard won the U.S. Eastern Clay Court Championships at Hackensack, New Jersey in his only appearance at the event. He defeated Eugene Scott, a later quarterfinalist at Roland Garros, in the final in a marathon five set match after trailing two sets to one. Bédard defeated Mike Sangster in the third round of the Canadian Open. He lost a long five-set semifinal to the eventual tournament winner, Ladislav (Laci) Legenstein. Bédard beat François Godbout, the Quebec Indoor champion that year, in the final of the Quebec Open in July in three straight sets. Bédard "used his experience as a Davis Cup veteran to thwart any