Career
His best in a professional ranking event was to qualify for the 1998 World Championship beating Gary Wilkinson 10–9, before losing 10–6 to Steve Davis. He qualified to return to the Main Tour for the 2008/2009 season by finishing ranked fourth on the 2007/2008 Pontins International Open Series. At the beginning of 2013/2014 season, in qualifying against Barry Pinches for the 2013 Australian Goldfields Open a 19-year-old record from the qualifying stage of the 1994 British Open was broken.
The match lasted 449 minutes and 46 seconds, the longest ever best-of-nine-frame match in the history of professional snooker.
The previous record was 434 minutes and 12 seconds in the match between Ian Williamson and Robby Foldvari. However, Bedford only entered in six further events during the season, winning only five matches and after a first round defeat in the United Kingdom Championship in November he didn"t enter another tournament, resulting in his relegation from the main tour as he ended the season ranked 99th in the world.
Non-Ranking Wins: (2 titles) Pro-am wins.
