Radek Štěpánek is a Czech tennis player who appeared in 2026 in the television competition StarDance.

Radek Štěpánek in a 2013 photograph
Radek Štěpánek in a 2013 photographPhoto: si.robi, 2013 · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Radek Štěpánek is a Czech tennis player. In 2026 he was one of the contestants of the fourteenth series of the television dance competition StarDance, where he danced with Vanda Bartošová Dětinská.

The pair became the first couple to leave the competition after the viewers' vote. Štěpánek said that he had not danced by any rules before the competition and began learning dance steps in the summer of 2026. [2] The contestants' performances in this round were judged by a four-member jury made up of Zdeněk Chlopčík, Tatiana Drexler, Richard Genzer and Jana Burkiewiczová. [1] In the second episode of the competition, held on 17 October 2026, the pair performed a tango. [1] In this connection the server Blesk.cz noted that in thirteen series of the programme only two sportspeople had reached the final.

Štěpánek is also the author of feuilletons broadcast by Czech Radio Brno. One of them is titled "Těžko na cvičišti aneb O sebejistotě".

Sources

  1. Novinky.cz — 17 October 2026
  2. Deník.cz — 18 October 2026
  3. Blesk.cz — 18 October 2026
  4. Český rozhlas Brno — 17 October 2026