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, a tournament on the ATP Challenger 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 to two Grand Slam doubles titles and worked with Frederico Gil when he was a coach at the Break Point Academy in Halle, 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 and Patrik Rikl.
Challenger titles Singles: (1) YearTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore2003Mordovia, RussiaClay Michal Mertiňák 6–1, 6–1
Doubles: (8) YearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore2003Mordovia, RussiaClay Kornél Bardóczky Łukasz Kubot Orest Tereshchuk7–6(3), 6–32003Prague, Czech RepublicCarpet Igor Zelenay Karsten Braasch Jean-Claude Scherrer6–4, 4–6, 6–42004Manerbio, ItalyClay Petr Luxa Johan Landsberg Rogier Wassen6–4, 6–22005Wrocław, PolandHard Lukáš Dlouhý Jason Marshall Huntley Montgomery6–2, 5–7, 6–42005Lübeck, GermanyCarpet Pavel Šnobel Philipp Petzschner Lars Uebel7–6(5), 5–7, 7–52005Ostrava, Czech RepublicClay Pavel Šnobel Tomáš Cibulec Mariusz Fyrstenberg7–6(1), 2–6, 7–6(4)2005Rimini, ItalyClay David Škoch Christopher Kas Philipp Petzschner6–3, 6–7(1), 6–12005Freudenstadt, GermanyClay Pavel Šnobel Sebastian Fitz Simon Greul6–2, 6–4
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