REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Spanish women's single player Carolina Marin retained her title at the World Badminton Championship here on Sunday beating Saina Nehwal from India 21-16, 21-19.

"Today I feel like at home because I have all supporters behind me. Many times I heard they shouted 'Marin, Marin' to support me and I appreciated it," she said after the match.

She considered the support from "the Indonesian fans" as having given her spirit to beat Saina.

The champion of the European Championship 2014 in Kazan, Russia, said she did not think whether she would win or lose while playing in the games but only focused on collecting points, kept fighting and preventing mistakes and attacking at the direction within the field of her opponent.

"When I entered the court today I only thought that I would only enjoy the game and the atmosphere because this would be my final match and so I had to do my best," she said.

Compared to her performance at the final round of the championship in Copenhagen, Denmark, last year when she won the title for the first time she said she felt this second title was more special because of the injury on her right leg she suffered a month before.

"Initially I and our team thought I would not be able to play in this tournament. Two weeks before the tournament began I trained again and when I arrived here I only thought I would just enjoy the game and had set no target," she said.

Winning the title two times did not make Marin feel dominating the women's single category.

"I do not know if I dominate the women's single category or not. I could not always win. Perhaps someday I would lose. I would only have to focus on what I am doing in the court," she said.

Saina Nehwal who is the second seeded in the tournament admitted her opponent's superiority.

"She attacked more aggressively in the second game. I had tried to control it with rallies but she attacked faster. Yes it was my mistake," she said.

Saina who won a bronze medal in the Olympic Games in London in 2012 admitted she had been worried because it was the first she reached the final round of the championship and met with Marin who was last year's champion.

"Playing in the final round is more about mental than physical fight but I had to play and play the best," she said.

Indonesian women's single player Linda Wenifanetri had to be satisfied with a bronze medal after she was beaten by Saina in the semifinal round 17-21, 17-21 in 55 minutes.

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