The Spanish challenger proved no match for the world No 1, who is aiming for a third straight title after winning back-to-back events in the Gulf last month.Hingis, looking ahead to the French Open in May, said: "The most important thing is to go into the Grand Slams with confidence."Lleyton Hewitt's run at the Franklin Templeton Classic at Scottsdale was ended in the semi-final by Francisco Clavet. The Spanish veteran took advantage of the Australian's rash of unforced errors to claim a 6-3, 6-4 victory."My legs didn't have it in them to run around and crack the forehand," Hewitt said. In last night's final, Clavet was due to play Magnus Norman, who overcame Tim Henman's conqueror Harel Levy in yesterday's rain-delayed match."I don't know why I play so well here," said Clavet, who has accounted for Andre Agassi at the venue for the past two years "I feel comfortable here, it's a very relaxed atmosphere. When you feel good, you play well also."At Delray Beach in Florida, the fourth-seeded Jan-Michael Gambill of the United States reached his first final since July when he outlasted the Australian Wayne Arthurs at the Citrix Championships.The 23-year-old claimed a hard-fought 6-3, 6-7, 7-6 victory over the hard-serving left-hander.

Gambill was due to face the 20-year-old Xavier Malisse in last night's final after the unseeded Belgian beat the Dutch player Peter Wessels,7-5 6-4, to advance to his second championship match in three years at this event.It has been an impressive fortnight for Malisse, who last week reached the semi-finals of the Sybase Open in San Jose, California. This week, he has knocked out the second seed Nicolas Lapentti in the second round and the eighth seed Fabrice Santoro in the quarter-finals.The Brazilian Gustavo Kuerten has been named the Association of Tennis Professionals' Player of the Year for 2000 after becoming the first South American to finish the year ranked No 1 in the world. Kuerten headed the winners list at the ATP's annual awards on Saturday night.. Britain's first big campaign to combat the shame and isolation suffered by people with mental illness and depression will be launched today. Britain's first big campaign to combat the shame and isolation suffered by people with mental illness and depression will be launched today. Young people will be one of the campaign's prime targets because of a sharp rise in the number of under-24s who experience mental health problems and because of their high levels of prejudice.In the past five years, the number of students seeking help from counselling services has increased by 25 per cent and suicide is the biggest killer of young men.But research published today shows that 55 per cent of young people would not want anyone to know if they had a mental health problem and eight out of 10 believe they would be discriminated against.Conversely, more than half of all those aged 16 to 24 admit they use derogatory language such as "schizo" or "nutter" and many of them believe that people with mental illness are unsafe or violent.One in four adults will experience some form of mental illness, ranging from depression, severe anxiety and eating disorders, to manic depression and schizophrenia, at some point in their lives.But despite the widespread nature of the problem, health ministers say many sufferers still experience discrimination, abuse, harassment or even physical attacks.The national £1m campaign, led by the Department of Health, will encourage young people, employers and the media to change their attitudes and misconceptions about mental illness.John Hutton, a Health minister, said a "fundamental shift" in public opinion was needed so that discrimination against the disease became as socially unacceptable as racism, sexism and homophobia.Professor Louis Appleby, the national director for mental health, added: "Here we are at the start of the 21st century and people are very reluctant to say they have an illness People still feel ashamed.

It is quite horrible really."Several decades ago, tuberculosis, epilepsy and even cancer were surrounded by such a stigma that victims often kept the diseases quiet, Professor Appleby said. Mental illness needed the same degree of acceptability those diseases now received, he said.. The Hollywood star Kevin Costner has arranged for world leaders to see his latest film because he believes they are not taking the possibility of a nuclear conflict seriously enough. The Hollywood star Kevin Costner has arranged for world leaders to see his latest film because he believes they are not taking the possibility of a nuclear conflict seriously enough. President George Bush has seen the film, Thirteen Days, the story of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, as has the former president Bill Clinton.Costner arrives in Britain today for the film's opening here, urging Tony Blair to see it.

The US ambassador will screen it tomorrow with politicians and other VIPs invited.In his first interview with a British newspaper about the film, Costner, who plays an adviser to John F Kennedy, told The Independent that he did not believe the film would be "box office" but wanted to reawaken debate on nuclear arms. Much of the script is based on tapes and documents from the White House at the time.He said: "This is clearly a very political movie And I do want Tony Blair to see it. President Bush and his father and Bill Clinton have all seen it. We have a very smug attitude that this problem has gone away But the world has thousands of nuclear missiles.