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Feb 5th, 2013, 08:30 PM
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Re: Photos of Petra Kvitova
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Well, if e.g. some of our antivirus software tycoons (avast, avg, eset) spent a few bucks on organizing a WTA event in CZ, Petra would be soon No. 1  . For example, a short time ago, the founders of AVAST antivirus sold a minority stake in their company for $100 million. Could you imagine if they were tennis fans and spent $5-10 million bucks on a tennis tournament?  |
Having Skoda or Tatra or Tesla as main title sponsor is more then enough to organize WTA Premier tournament, small companies would follow by default, it's sad such great country as Czech Republic with rich tennis roots doesn't have any real WTA tournaments and nobody gives a frak about it 
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Feb 5th, 2013, 08:44 PM
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Re: Photos of Petra Kvitova
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Well, if e.g. some of our antivirus software tycoons (avast, avg, eset) spent a few bucks on organizing a WTA event in CZ, Petra would be soon No. 1 . For example, a short time ago, the founders of AVAST antivirus sold a minority stake in their company for $100 million. Could you imagine if they were tennis fans and spent $5-10 million bucks on a tennis tournament? |
Avast and AVG are Czech companies?  
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Feb 5th, 2013, 08:45 PM
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Re: Photos of Petra Kvitova
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When did Pizza become healthy food for Elite Athletes? .... what all these girls really should be having including Petr Pala (who looks like death warmed up) is this essential highly nutricious high performance food!! : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21310962
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Feb 5th, 2013, 10:12 PM
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Re: Photos of Petra Kvitova
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Yup, by far the two most downloaded programs on download.com. I live just two metro stops from Avast's Prague headquarters
BTW, the Petra team could learn much from them, they e.g. have five Czechs and three Americans in the top management, including the CEO (he was the vice-president of sales at Symantec who make the Norton Antivirus) so while a majority of the staff are Czech they are open to top professionals from other countries as well 
Avast, AVG and Eset (the last one is based in the Slovak capital) protect about 40 percent of the world's computers against viruses = more than 400 million people
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Feb 5th, 2013, 10:36 PM
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Re: Photos of Petra Kvitova
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Having Skoda or Tatra or Tesla as main title sponsor is more then enough to organize WTA Premier tournament, small companies would follow by default, it's sad such great country as Czech Republic with rich tennis roots doesn't have any real WTA tournaments and nobody gives a frak about it |
The WTA prefers China, which is understandable. Moreover, the Czech tennis federation prefers investing into talented players rather than into tournaments. So any potential tourney would have to be financed by private businesses at their own risk.
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Feb 5th, 2013, 10:43 PM
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Re: Photos of Petra Kvitova
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When did Pizza become healthy food for Elite Athletes? .... what all these girls really should be having including Petr Pala (who looks like death warmed up) is this essential highly nutricious high performance food!! : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21310962 |
Yummy!
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Feb 5th, 2013, 10:57 PM
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I didn't realize that either. Here's a funny little thing:- the year before Kvitova became one of my faves I was using AVG. I switched to Avira last year - just checked and found out that they're German. Barthel became one of my faves last year. 
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Feb 5th, 2013, 11:02 PM
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Re: Photos of Petra Kvitova
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"The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects." - Albert Einstein
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Feb 6th, 2013, 04:21 AM
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Re: Photos of Petra Kvitova
this is just cute idek
I love her giant coat
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Feb 6th, 2013, 07:40 AM
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Re: Photos of Petra Kvitova
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this is just cute idek
I love her giant coat
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She looks like she's in 8 month of pregnancy in it  
btw, Isn't the one she wore in Paris?
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Feb 6th, 2013, 08:34 AM
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Feb 6th, 2013, 10:20 AM
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Re: Photos of Petra Kvitova
Anyone still suprised the girls love Fed Cup? Shopping, meetings with fans, posing for photographs in nice dresses, delicious dinners, etc.
And the fact that they are strong favorites versus the Aussies helps as well
Last edited by Petronius : Feb 6th, 2013 at 10:25 AM.
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Feb 6th, 2013, 10:24 AM
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Re: Photos of Petra Kvitova
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I didn't realize that either. Here's a funny little thing:- the year before Kvitova became one of my faves I was using AVG. I switched to Avira last year - just checked and found out that they're German. Barthel became one of my faves last year. |
I've read somewhere that AVG's 2013 release is quite bad (slows down the computer, etc.) so good for you to switch to Avira and Barthel
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Feb 6th, 2013, 12:19 PM
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Feb 6th, 2013, 12:51 PM
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Re: Photos of Petra Kvitova
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I've read somewhere that AVG's 2013 release is quite bad (slows down the computer, etc.) so good for you to switch to Avira and Barthel |
So was 2012. I think it took up around 500K, but could of been almost 1GB of memory. Yeah, it's slow, unless you have a brand new computer).
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