Top-ranked Martina Hingis of Switzerland cruised past fellow teenager and seventh seed Anna Kournikova of Russia, 6-4, 6-3, to claim $150,000 at the $1.05 million event.

With a combined age of 36 years, five months, Hingis and Kournikova were the youngest players the meet in the finals at this event. In 1989, Steffi Graf of Germany played Natasha Zvereva of Belarus, with an aggregate age 15 months older than today's duo.

The record for the youngest final matchup on the WTA Tour was set at San Diego in 1991, when Jennifer Capriati at 15 years, four months defeated fellow American Monica Seles at 17 years, eight months.

The 18-year-old Hingis, who teamed with Kournikova to win the Australian Open doubles championship, needed just over an hour to claim her 22nd career singles title and third of the year. The 1997 champion also won the season's first Grand Slam event and the Pan Pacific Open at Tokyo.

In her previous three events, Hingis reached the quarterfinals in Paris and Indian Wells, California before losing in the semifinals at the Lipton Championships last week.

Hingis improved to 6-1 all-time against the 17-year-old Kournikova, nailing 23 winners and winning 75 percent of her second serves. Her Russian counterpart committed 30 unforced errors.

Kournikova competed in only her second career singles final. She lost to American Venus Williams at last year's Lipton.