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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