Team Details: Pune Pistons

Owned by Burman Family of Dabur Group, the team is strong in both Singles event as well as Mixed Doubles event. Pune Pistons lost the semifinal.

Team Management and Price of Each Player
IBL Schedule

ICON player: Ashwini Ponappa has joined hands with DelhiS Smashers Captain Jwala Gutta in Women’s Doubles to earn India’s second bronze (now Sindhu has earned third Bronze), at World Championships in 2011.

Event/Specialists
MS=Men’s Singles, WS=Women’s Singles, MD=Men’s Doubles, WD=Women’s Doubles, XD=Mixed Doubles
Ashwini Ponnappa (India)/Joachim XD

Gold Medal winner at the Commonwealth games women’s doubles
Bronze at the BWF world championships
Gold Medal South Asian Games 2006

Juliane Schenk (Germany) WS

World No. 4
After Saina, 2nd highest ranked player in IBL
4 times runner-up in Super Series, GPG Opens and European Championships.

Tien Minh Nguyen (Vietnam) MS

World No. 7
Won 2013 US Open Grand Prix Gold Tournament
Gold medal for Men’s Singles at Chinese Taipei Gold Grand Prix 2009 and SCG Thailand Open Grand Prix Gold 2009

Saurabh Verma
QF of Scottish Open in 2009
Wee Kiong Tan (Malaysia)/Sanave Thomas (India) or
Rupesh Kumar (India) / Arun Vishnu MD

Wee Kiong, World No. 10 in MD
Winner of Chinese Taipei Open

Host Stadium: Shri Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Badminton Hall, Balewadi

Schedule for Pune Pistons:

August 14 – Krrish Delhi Smashers – Won 3-2
August 17 – Mumbai Masters won 3-2
August 19 – Hyderabad Hotshots lost 1-4
August 23 – Banga Beats won 4-1
August 26 – Awadhe Warriors

lost 2-3
August 28 – Semifinal lost 0-3 to Hyderabad Hotshots