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.

Singles: (1)

Year	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
2003	Mordovia, Russia	Clay	Michal Mertiňák	6–1, 6–1

Doubles: (8)

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