Davis Cup team-mate, Lorne Main, won the 85-and-over category. In 2015, Bédard participated with another Pan American Games medalist in a doubles match at a museum house which contained early tennis equipment. Ranking Bédard was considered among the top ten clay court players in the world. Bédard was the top-ranked Canadian player in singles in 10 years from the mid 1950s to the mid 1960s. During this time he lost only once to a fellow Canadian in competition, to Reider Getz of Vancouver at the Verdun invitational in July 1964. Bédard was ranked no lower than third in Canada between 1952 and 1970. He was first ranked No. 1 in Quebec in 1953. Davis Cup Bédard was a Canadian Davis Cup member from 1953 to 1961, and again in 1967, and had a career win–loss record of 11 and 22, 8 and 15 in singles and 3 and 7 in doubles. Bédard lost all three of the Davis Cup rubbers he contested in 1953. Despite this Canada did go on to face the Americans in the final of the America Group, played in Canada. Bédard and his partner Henri Rochon lost the doubles match in their quarter-final tie against Mexico, played at the Mount Royal Tennis Club; fortunately, Lorne Main won both of his singles rubbers, including the Round 4 match over Mario Llamas, which gave Canada an insurmountable 3–1 lead. (It was the last time Canada beat Mexico until 2001.) In the next round, also played at Mount Royal, Canada won the first three rubbers to seal victory against Cuba. He played his first singles match, losing the Round 5 dead rubber to Orlando Garrido in four sets. The American Group final was played at the Mount Royal Tennis Club in Montreal on grass, chosen by the Canadian Davis Cup Association, despite the fact that the Canadian players (Rochon, Main, and Bédard) were all specialists on clay, and the American team won 5-0. Bédard's match was a singles dead rubber four-set loss, this time to American Tut Bartzen. In 1954, Canada opened with a tight tie win over Chile 3–2, again in Montreal. After Main came back from 2 sets to 1 down in Round 1, Bédard got his first Cup singles win, in straight sets over Ricardo Balbiers. Main and Paul Willey next lost in straight sets to Andres Hammersley and Chilean star Luis Ayala. Main came through