Full name Martin Štěpánek Residence Prague, Czech Republic | Country (sports) Czech Republic Prize money 82,685 USD | |
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Born 13 December 1979 (age 37)
Havana, Cuba ( 1979-12-13 ) Highest ranking No. 248 (25 August 2003) Highest ranking No. 102 (26 September 2005) | ||
Martin Štěpánek (born 13 December 1979) is a tennis coach and former professional player from the Czech Republic.
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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 Stepanek, has one brother.
Playing career
At a 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.