Martin Štěpánek (tennis)

Martin Štěpánek (born 13 December 1979) is a tennis coach and former professional player from the Czech Republic.

Martin Štěpánek
Full nameMartin Štěpánek
Country (sports) Czech Republic
ResidencePrague, Czech Republic
Born (1979-12-13) 13 December 1979
Havana, Cuba
Prize money$82,685
Singles
Highest rankingNo. 248 (25 August 2003)
Grand Slam singles results
WimbledonQ1 (1999, 2004)
Doubles
Highest rankingNo. 102 (26 September 2005)
Coaching career
Ivan Dodig
Lukáš Dlouhý
Frederico Gil
Tomáš Berdych
Borna Ćorić
Sebastian Korda
Patrik Rikl

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.[1]

Štěpánek, who is not related to Radek Štěpánek, has one brother.[2]

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.[3]

In 2003 he won the Mordovia Cup, a tournament on the ATP Challenger circuit.[4]

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.[2]

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.[5]

He has also coached Lukáš Dlouhý to two Grand Slam doubles titles and worked with Frederico Gil when he was a coach at the Break Point Academy in Halle, Germany.[2]

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.[6]

He is currently coaching Sebastian Korda[7] and Patrik Rikl.

Challenger titles

Singles: (1)
Year Tournament Surface Opponent Score
2003 Mordovia, Russia Clay Slovakia Michal Mertiňák 6–1, 6–1

Doubles: (8)
Year Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
2003 Mordovia, Russia Clay Hungary Kornél Bardóczky Poland Łukasz Kubot
Ukraine Orest Tereshchuk		 7–6(3), 6–3
2003 Prague, Czech Republic Carpet Slovakia Igor Zelenay Germany Karsten Braasch
Switzerland Jean-Claude Scherrer		 6–4, 4–6, 6–4
2004 Manerbio, Italy Clay Czech Republic Petr Luxa Sweden Johan Landsberg
Netherlands Rogier Wassen		 6–4, 6–2
2005 Wrocław, Poland Hard Czech Republic Lukáš Dlouhý United States Jason Marshall
United States Huntley Montgomery		 6–2, 5–7, 6–4
2005 Lübeck, Germany Carpet Czech Republic Pavel Šnobel Germany Philipp Petzschner
Germany Lars Uebel		 7–6(5), 5–7, 7–5
2005 Ostrava, Czech Republic Clay Czech Republic Pavel Šnobel Czech Republic Tomáš Cibulec
Poland Mariusz Fyrstenberg		 7–6(1), 2–6, 7–6(4)
2005 Rimini, Italy Clay Czech Republic David Škoch Germany Christopher Kas
Germany Philipp Petzschner		 6–3, 6–7(1), 6–1
2005 Freudenstadt, Germany Clay Czech Republic Pavel Šnobel Germany Sebastian Fitz
Germany Simon Greul		 6–2, 6–4

References
  1. "Coaches - Martin Stepanek - Personal". ATP World Tour. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  2. "Martin Štěpánek: Z dříče Dodiga dělá hvězdu" (in Czech). TenisPortal.cz. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  3. Clarey, Christopher (14 November 2015). "One Small Rankings Point Feels Like a Giant Leap, When It Is the First". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  4. "ITF Tennis - Pro Circuit - Saransk Challenger - 05 August - 10 August 2003". International Tennis Federation. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  5. Borkowski, Pete (3 December 2015). "Ivan Dodig Parts with Long-Time Coach". Vavel.com. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  6. "Martin Stepanek ATP coach Profile". ATP Tour. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  7. https://tennisnow.com/Mobile/Blogs/15067.aspx
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