Simon Bedford

Simon Bedford (born 8 February 1976) is an English former professional snooker player.

Career Bedford qualified for the 1998 World Championship; he beat Gary Wilkinson 10–9, before losing 6–10 to Steve Davis. He also reached the last 32 of the European Open in 2004 and the Grand Prix in 2008. He returned to the Main Tour for the 2008–09 season by finishing fourth in the 2007/2008 Pontins International Open Series rankings.

In the 2012–13 season, he defeated Ronnie O'Sullivan 4–3 in the first round of the third event of the Players Tour Championship.

At the beginning of the 2013–14 season, in a qualifying match 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 in 1994. The Bedford/Pinches match began on 31 May 2013 and ended on 1 June 2013; Bedford won 5–4, after being 4–0 up. He only entered six further events during the season, winning five matches. After a first round defeat in the UK Championship in November he did not enter another tournament, resulting in his relegation from the main tour as he ended the season ranked 99th in the world. Bedford returned to play in 2017 Q School and was knocked out in the fifth round of the first event and the second round of event two.

Performance and rankings timeline Performance Table LegendLQ lost in the qualifying draw#R lost in the early rounds of the tournament(WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin)QF lost in the quarter-finalsSF lost in the semi-finalsF lost in the finalW won the tournamentDNQ did not qualify for the tournamentA did not participate in the tournamentWD withdrew from the tournament NH / Not Held event was not held.NR / Non-Ranking Event event is/was no longer a ranking event.R / Ranking Event event is/was a ranking event.

Tournament wins

Non-Ranking Wins: (2 titles)

UK Tour Event 3 – 1998 UK Tour Event 3 – 2000

Pro-am wins Vienna Snooker Open – 2012

Amateur wins PIOS – Event 1 - 2007 Challenge Tour – Event 8 - 2018