Pune have WKT and JFN still they are persisting with Indian team of Sanave Thomas and Rupesh Kumar in MD... Good to see..
Ivanov has been the star of the IBL so far. His price is not justified at all... I am certain his price will go up at least 3 folds provided IBL comes back next year. From this inaugural IBL he will walk away with some endorsements, I hope.
Big morale boost for him as well... Coming from Russia there arent many tournaments he could play in and was more into the doubles but here his singles credentials are up for big uplift....
Happy times for Gopichand, left right wherever he sees he finds his player, who ever has a shot he could enjoy it
The Mumbai team would definitely get stronger with LCW coming back and Ivanov playing both the doubles games... if thats allowed.
IBL so far has gone to the wire for all the ties and each has been decided with a scoreline of 3-2. Happy times to be a Pune supporter and happy times for the viewers with the teams pretty evenly matched. And yes it makes me happy to see the doubles getting the attention being the last match as well as helping team win the ties, Indian women player are coming good in the XD, raising the hopes.