INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- Teenager Daniela Hantuchova was so excited to be playing her first tour singles final that she was determined to enjoy every minute of it.

Did she ever.

	Daniela Hantuchova scored numerous winners down the line against Martina Hingis.

The gangly 18-year-old from Slovakia overpowered Martina Hingis 6-3, 6-4 Saturday to win the Pacific Life Open.

"It's still hard for me to believe what I've done here," Hantuchova said. "That was the best match I've ever played because on the other side was Martina, one of the best players."

Hingis, only 21 herself, said, "She just played very fearless, had nothing to lose. She wasn't afraid of going down the lines."

She smiled and added, "When I was 18, I was fearless, too, I guess."

After booming a backhand winner down the line to end the match, Hantuchova put her hands to her face, perhaps in disbelief, then went over and hugged her mother Marianna, a toxicologist, and her father Igor, a computer scientist. He had just flown in from Slovakia the previous night so he could watch his daughter in her first title match.

"That was always my dream, to have both of them at my first final," said Hantuchova, fluent in English and German as well as Slovakian. "So I'm very happy that my dad came, too, that they both were watching my match."

Her hard, accurate groundstrokes keeping Hingis scurrying side-to-side throughout the match, Hantuchova broke Hingis' service six times on her way to the $332,000 winner's prize.

With the dominant victory over the second-seeded Hingis, the 18th-seeded Hantuchova became the lowest seed to win a women's tier I event since 1980.

Swirling wind that fanned sand into the air during the men's semifinals earlier in the day had subsided somewhat by the time the women's championship match began in the late afternoon.

Hantuchova's backhand was particularly deadly against Hingis, as she hit 20 backhand winners to just five by the Swiss star who has won 40 career titles.

Hantuchova hit 33 winners overall to Hingis' 16.

On one point early in the second set, after racing from side to side to chase down shots, Hingis watched helplessly as Hantuchova rocketed a forehand winner just inside the right sideline.

Hingis raised both arms in apparent frustration.

Hantuchova, a 5-foot-11, 123-pounder who joined the tour in 1999, had extended top-ranked Venus Williams to three sets earlier this year in the third round of the Australian Open.

While the singles final was her first, Hantuchova already has two Grand Slam mixed doubles titles to her credit, the Australian Open this year and Wimbledon in 2001.