NEW YORK (AP) -- Lindsay Davenport played her game to perfection Sunday, dominating the world's No. 1 player to win the season-ending Chase Championships.

Taking charge from the opening stroke, Davenport overpowered Martina Hingis 6-4, 6-2 to reverse the outcome of last year's Chase Championships title match between the same players.

``I wanted to be really aggressive, to go for winners and go for the big shots,'' Davenport said. ``I did everything well.''

The final game was a perfect example.

Serving for the match, Davenport began with a wide ace. Then Hingis badly misplayed the next serve. The 6-foot-2 1/2 Californian closed the match with her eighth and ninth aces.

This was the second straight week Davenport had faced Hingis in a title match. And for the second straight week, it was Davenport who walked off a winner. Along with her victory in Philadelphia, the Chase Championships crown was Davenport's seventh of the year.

Davenport has won all three of her matches against Hingis this year. This one, on the blue Madison Square Garden court, was worth $500,000, and put her in the company of such other Championships winners as Hingis, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf and Monica Seles. A banner with the names of all the winners was raised to the rafters.

To get to the final in this elite 16-player event, Hingis beat Venus Williams in the semifinals while Davenport downed Nathalie Tauziat.

``Yesterday I had a great victory against Venus, but Lindsay was a level too good today,'' Hingis said. ``Venus has the hardest serve, but Lindsay the best placed, and pretty big, too. She doesn't miss from the baseline.''

Davenport was determined to use her power to control the points. Hingis is a master at changing speeds, directions and tactics.

But Davenport prevailed this time in 61 minutes. She set up points with her huge serve or booming ground strokes, looking for an opening.

She started the match that way, breaking the 19-year-old Swiss in the opening game at 30. A huge forehand down the line took her to game point, then another big forehand, this time going crosscourt, closed the break.

In the fifth game, Davenport broke again, the time from deuce and this time with a big backhand crosscourt that ticked off the top of Hingis' racket.

This was just the thing she needed as Hingis broke back in the sixth game at 30, helped by three unforced errors by Davenport. Hingis tried to exploit Davenport's lack of movement by tossing in a drop shot occasionally, then lobbing or chipping and charging, anything to change the momentum.

Davenport had most of the answers. A couple of times she reached a drop shot and flicked the ball crosscourt. Davenport broke Hingis in the third and seventh games of the second set. In that set, she didn't face a break point on her service.