'I'll be going home soon to start training for the World Championships after having a couple of weeks rest on an injured leg muscle,' said Wiranata, who is in the territory to do some promo work for Star TV's Primesport Channel.

'I have never won the World Championship but I don't intend to stop trying. I will do my best to win it. Hopefully, everything will come together,' said the Jakarta-based star.

'My build-up to the World Championships starts by competing in the Asian Championships in Beijing next month. I feel confident I will do well in Lausanne,' he said.

Last year marked a personal milestone for Wiranata when he took home the World Grand Prix title - the biggest tournament win of his illustrious career. He was also voted the personality of the tournament for which he won a free trip to Hong Kong.

Although he has won numerous Grand Prix tournaments, including the Indonesian Open, and enjoyed a long reign as world number one, Wiranata is still regarded as the 'almost' man in world badminton.

That tag comes from his failures at the 1989 World Championship final where he lost to China's legendary Yang Yang and two years ago when he found compatriot Allan Budi Kusuma too good on the day in the Olympic final in Barcelona.

Wiranata may have some of the pressure taken off him as he attempts his fourth crack at the World Championship.

Since the emergence of Heryanto Arbi, the new world number one, Wiranata has been living in the shadow of Indonesia's newest star.

'There is less pressure on me nowadays. Before, everybody expected me to win but it's not the same any more. Now everybody expects Arbi to win,' said Wiranata recently.

Wiranata warned there were players hungry for the world title with the Europeans posing the biggest threat after their exploits at the All-England Championships in Birmingham last week.

Poul Erik-Hoyer Larsen pulled off the upset of the year when he won the men's singles crown at the All-England Championships by defeating Heryanto in the final.

'The European players have generally performed better this year than before.

'Hoyer Larsen did not play well last year in the All-England but he seemed to have peaked for the tournament. Arbi had won the All-England twice and he was too eager to make it a hat-trick.

'He made too many mistakes allowing the Dane to win,' said Wiranata.

Indonesia's recent dominance was also loosened in the Birmingham tournament where world and Olympic champion Susi Susanti, the most dominant player of recent years, was beaten by China-born Lim Xiaoqing, who was representing Sweden.

Lim, who fled the mainland to make her adopted home in Sweden after the Tiananmen Square Massacre, went on to defeat Denmark's Camilla Martin to win the title. It was Sweden's first women's singles success at the All-England in 24 years.