Her Sydney triumph showed the benefit of her fitness work and if she gets deep into the tournament, no one will want to see Kvitova on the other side of the net.
Not always desperate for success in this tournament, it could be different this time.
The home side will need to start well with Wales by some way the strongest finishers in the tournament in recent years, but the Lions pain of O'Driscoll and Heaslip should mutate into gain.
Schmidt will have targeted the Wales game during the first week of camp before the tournament, working on bits and pieces".
His tally of 486 runs in eight innings in the tournament, at an average of more than 60 and a strike rate of 87, is second only to Glamorgan's Jacques Rudolph, and has included half-centuries in the quarter and semi-final victories over Essex and Kent respectively, as well as two centuries during the group stage.
Until McIlroy and Dubai Duty Free stepped forward, this was a tournament minus a sponsor and, essentially, direction.
Nothing less than a win against the Czech Republic will do for them, else they'll be exiting their own tournament at the first hurdle and while we make every attempt to maintain neutrality in these parts, it would be a dreadful shame if a side that has played some cracking football in their first two games leaves us now.
"He was one of the players recruited from abroad that the Polish media and fans were complaining about before the tournament - he was born and raised in France but was eligible because his grandfather was Polish.
"I'd go for Sri Lanka to win the tournament, especially with our mate Farby in charge," Gillespie told the Guardian.
What we need to do now is take that into a tournament.
I suppose there is an outside pressure: we are one of the bigger teams in the tournament and people look to England as potential winners.
