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Hans-Dieter Beutel

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Hans-Dieter Beutel (born 12 June 1962) is a former professional tennis player from West Germany.[1]

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Career

Beutel was a losing finalist in the 1980 Wimbledon boys' singles event, to Frenchman Thierry Tulasne.[2]

In 1981, Beutel made the semi-finals of the Sofia Open.[3]

He was the German National Champion in 1982, for both indoor and outdoor singles and in the outdoor doubles.[3] Also that year he reached the quarter-finals in Linz and was a doubles runner-up in Cologne.[3]

Beutel was a singles finalist at Cologne in 1983, beating Carlos Kirmayr, Shlomo Glickstein, Eric Jelen and Pavel Složil en route.[3] He made the quarter-finals at Båstad the following year.[3]

He won two Grand Slam matches during his career, both at the Australian Open.[3] In the 1984 tournament, he defeated countryman Jelen in the opening round, before going down to Tarik Benhabiles in five sets.[3] At the 1989 Australian Open he came from two sets down to overcome Laurent Prades in the first round.[3] He was eliminated in the second round by 14th seed Jonas Svensson.[3]

The West German appeared in five Davis Cup ties for his national team in the early 1980s, winning three of his eight rubbers, one in singles and two in doubles.[4]

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Grand Prix career finals

Singles: 1 (0–1)

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Doubles: 1 (0–1)

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Challenger titles

Singles: (2)

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Doubles: (1)

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References

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