the 1956 Canadian Open, held in Vancouver on grass, Bédard lost in the semifinals to Noel Brown, who then defeated Don Fontana in the final. Bédard again reached the third round at Forest Hills, this time bowing out to unseeded American Hugh Stewart in four sets. After going out early in the next two U.S. Nationals, he would once again reach the third round in 1959, when he lost to No. 6 seed Luis Ayala. He reached the same round one last time two years later, just shy of his 30th birthday. 1957 Bédard and his wife took a honeymoon tour of Europe in 1957 following their wedding, which would be his finest year with four tournament wins in singles. Bédard won two clay court tournaments in Britain in 1957, including the Sutton Hardcourts title at the Sutton Tennis and Squash Club in Sutton, Surrey, England, defeating future champion Bob Howe in the final in straight sets. Bédard also won the North of England Hardcourts Championships at Southport, England at the Argyle Lawn Tennis Club, defeating future champion Alan Mills in the final in straight sets. In the Kent Championships at Beckenham on grass, Bédard defeated Roy Emerson, but lost in the next round to Ramanathan Krishnan. At Wimbledon, Bédard and his wife entered the mixed doubles, losing in the first round. Bédard defeated Torben Ulrich in the first round at Wimbledon in singles but lost his next match to Jacques Brichant. Bédard won the Nova Scotia Championships in mens singles for 1957, and also won the mixed doubles title with his wife. Bédard played in the O'Keefe International at the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club on red clay in Toronto. He won three rounds and defeated Kurt Nielsen and Armando Vieira, but lost the semifinal to Sven Davidson, world No. 2 and the French Open champion for that year on red clay. Davidson defeated Budge Patty in the final. Bédard won the Canadian Open for the second time at Montreal's Monkland Tennis Club on clay, the same venue where Santana would win the Canadian Open title over Emerson ten years later. He defeated in turn Straight Clark, winner of the Cincinnati Masters Clay Court in 1954, Armando Vieira, the 1956 Dixieland champion, and Ramanathan Krishnan in a superb four-set final. Krishnan had beaten Bédard several times earlier that year in Britain, and would win the Canadian Open in 1968. Bédard