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Sunday, July 3, 2011

Petra Kvitova - Pronunciation advice

With the erstwhile Iron Curtain countries increasingly dominating world tennis, the challenge for broadcasters is increasing. What with the maiden winner of this year's women's singles at Wimbledon being Petra Kvitova. When the pronunciation of the name of her erstwhile country is featured as a major challenge in the Max New York Life advertisement, the name of a subject of that country is not going to be easy. But in case you are interested in getting it right here is the advisory 

Petra Kvitova = पेत्रा क्वितोवा = pet-rah kvit-oh-vuh
petraa kvitoovaa (Using pronunciation key)

All the 't' sounds are the soft sounds. Most channels are going with peTraah quit-oh-wah or पेट्रा क्विटोवा. Well now that she has won the Wimbledon twice, it would be unfair to associate the word 'quit' with her name.


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