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Robert Bédard (born 13 September 1931 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Honoured Members: Robert Bédard )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Robert Bédard, tennis (French) )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bédard, Robert )〕 is a former tennis player who was the Canadian no. 1 ranked singles player for most of the 1950s and early 1960s. He began playing tennis at the relatively late age of 15.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bédard, Robert )〕 ==Tennis career== Bédard is the last Canadian to win the Canadian Open singles championship, triumphing in 1955, 1957, and 1958.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Honoured Members: Robert Bédard )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bédard, Robert )〕 He was runner-up in 1954.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bédard, Robert )〕 He won the doubles title three times, in 1955, 1957, and 1959 with compatriot Don Fontana.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Honoured Members: Robert Bédard )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bédard, Robert )〕 He won the mixed doubles title in 1959 partnering Mariette Laframboise. He won the Montreal Cup at age 20.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Robert Bédard, tennis (French) )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bédard, Robert )〕 He was singles champion of the Nova Scotia Open in 1952, 1955, and 1957. Bédard competed in (the main draw at) the French Championships twice, Wimbledon four times, and the U.S. Nationals eleven times.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ITF Robert Bédard profile )〕 His best showing at a grand slam event was reaching the round of 32, which he did once at both Roland Garros and Wimbledon, both in 1954, and four times at Forest Hills, in 1955, '56, '59, and in 1961. As the no. 1 seed Lew Hoad disposed of Bédard in the third round at the French in three close sets.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Roland-Garros 1954 Men's Singles drawsheet )〕 A month later at Wimbledon, Hoad, the No. 2 seed eliminated Bédard in the same round in four sets. After a first round exit in 1954, Bédard reached the third round at Forest Hills for the first in an eventual four the following year, but again it was Hoad that he came up short against, this time the No. 4 seed won the encounter in three straight sets. In 1956 he duplicated the feat, this time bowing out to unseeded American Hugh Stewart in four sets. After going out early in the next two U.S. Nationals, he once again reached the third round in 1959, when he lost to No. 6 seed Luis Ayala. He reached the same round once last time two years later, just shy of his 30th birthday. He came closest to advancing in this, his sixth attempt, going up two sets on fellow unseeded player Crawford Henry before succumbing, 7–5, 13–11, 1–6, 4–6, 2–6. Bédard reached the finals of the 1954 Stuttgart Open, was a quarterfinalist at the 1957 Italian Open and won a silver medal at the 1959 Pan American Games.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Honoured Members: Robert Bedard )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Robert Bédard, tennis (French) )〕 In the latter event he defeated Mexican Francisco Contreras in the semi-finals but lost the final to Luis Ayala, thus capturing the silver medal.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Robert Bédard, tennis (French) )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Bédard (tennis)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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