NEW YORK (Reuters) - Martina Hingis is not the biggest, strongest or fastest player in the women's game but she may be the shrewdest.

The top-seeded Swiss teen-ager used her world class tennis smarts to ace her latest test at the U.S. Open, administering a 6-2, 6-0 lesson to Anke Huber Tuesday on the physics of playing in the wind at the National Tennis Center.

``She doesn't make many mistakes,'' moaned the 24-year-old Huber after losing the last 12 games of her 57-minute tutorial. ''She plays very smart.

``She used the wind very well today to her advantage. She's just a very smart player. Smarter than anybody else on the tour.''

Hingis, who turned pro at age 14, may have missed out on a formal high school academic curriculum, as pointed out last week by rival Serena Williams, but she reigns as a valedictorian on the tennis court.

Knowing when to play the angles, when to hit out, when to just keep the ball in play, the 18-year-old Hingis toyed with Huber on the wind-blown Arthur Ashe Stadium court.

The savvy Swiss induced the unseeded German to commit 39 unforced errors and yielded just 12 points in the second set.

Told that Huber said she was the smartest player on the tour, the frank Hingis responded: ``Yeah. In the wind, probably.

Hingis said learning how best to play various opponents in various conditions was her primary edge in the fight for tennis supremacy.

``Some players, you know, have more and some less,'' began Hingis. ``Some hit the ball hard, some don't. And, you know, some are tall. I have to use other weapons to be and stay at the top. Otherwise, I wouldn't be the No. 1 player if I wouldn't think a little bit on court.''

Hingis gave a little lecture on her winning approach Tuesday.

``If you play with the wind, you spin the ball more and keep it in the game, basically, because you know the other player can't really hurt you that much,'' she said. ``You basically can't do anything against the wind.

``Against the wind, you just hit as hard as you can, you know. It also depends a lot on the serve. And I think I just served a lot better, focused on that more today.''

In more general tactical terms, Hingis acknowledged she studies her opponents to find weaknesses. The world No. 1, of course, also has the skills to exploit those deficiencies.

``I think that I'm a player that if I see somebody's weakness, I can work on that and some other players, even when they know like I have a probably weaker forehand than backhand, they still can't use that.''

Despite the grind of a Grand Slam fortnight, Hingis said she can't keep from working overtime, studying other players' form on television after her own day's work.

``I mean, you're at the tennis tournament, so you are kind of addicted to it,'' she said. ``Especially at the Grand Slams, you go back home and you turn the TV on and it's right there.

``It's like, this is my job, so I have to know what's going on.''