Martin Štěpánek (born 13 December 1979) is a
tennis coach and former professional player from the Czech Republic.
Biography
The son of teachers, Blanka and Ludek Štěpánek, he was born in
Havana, Cuba. He also lived in Mexico growing up in the 1980s.
Štěpánek, who is not related to
Radek Štěpánek, has one brother.
Playing career
At an
ITF Futures event in the Czech Republic in 2001, Štěpánek had a win over
Tomáš Berdych in what was the future world number four's first appearance on tour.
In 2003 he won the
Mordovia Cup
The Mordovia Cup is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour. It is held annually in Saransk
Saransk (russian: Саранск, p= ...
, a tournament on the
ATP Challenger
The ATP Challenger Tour, known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series, is a series of international men's professional tennis tournaments. The Challenger Tour events are the second-highest tier of tennis competition, behind the ATP T ...
circuit.
He won eight Challenger doubles titles, five of them in 2005, a year he reached a career high 102 in the world.
Coaching
A shoulder injury ended his career at the end of the 2005 season and he made the move into coaching.
Based in Prague, he is best known as the coach of Croatian player
Ivan Dodig. During their time together, Dodig made it to 29 in the world in singles and 4 in doubles.
He has also coached
Lukáš Dlouhý
Lukáš Dlouhý (born 9 April 1983) is a retired professional Czech tennis player on the ATP Tour. A doubles specialist, Dlouhý reached a career-high ranking of World No. 5 in June 2009.
Career
Dlouhý has been part of two long-term doubles ...
to two
Grand Slam doubles titles and worked with
Frederico Gil when he was a coach at the Break Point Academy in
Halle Halle may refer to:
Places Germany
* Halle (Saale), also called Halle an der Saale, a city in Saxony-Anhalt
** Halle (region), a former administrative region in Saxony-Anhalt
** Bezirk Halle, a former administrative division of East Germany
** Hall ...
, Germany.
Since 2018 he was the coach of
Tomáš Berdych until his retirement in 2019.
He started coaching
Borna Ćorić at the end of 2019 till 2022.
He is currently coaching
Sebastian Korda.
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Challenger titles
Singles: (1)
Doubles: (8)
References
External links
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1979 births
Living people
Czech male tennis players
Czech tennis coaches
Tennis players from Prague
Sportspeople from Havana