Hans-Dieter Beutel

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

Beutel was a losing finalist in the 1980 Wimbledon boy's singles event, to Frenchman Thierry Tulasne.

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

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

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

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

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.

Singles: 1 (0–1)

Outcome	No.	Year	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	1983	Cologne, West Germany	Carpet	Matt Doyle	6–1, 1–6, 2–6

Doubles: 1 (0–1)

Outcome	No.	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	1982	Cologne, West Germany	Hard	Christoph Zipf	Jose Luis Damiani Carlos Kirmayr	2–6, 6–3, 5–7

Singles: (2)

No.	Year	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
1.	1983	Dortmund, West Germany	Clay	Jerome Vanier	6–7, 6–3, 6–4
2.	1988	Fürth, West Germany	Clay	Richard Vogel	1–6, 6–3, 6–4

Doubles: (1)

No.	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
1.	1984	Neunkirchen, West Germany	Clay	Christoph Zipf	Ulf Fischer Eric Jelen	7–6, 7–5