Top seed Lleyton Hewitt defeated fellow Australian Mark Philippoussis 6-4, 6-4 on Sunday to win the Scottsdale Classic title for the second time.

The world's number one ranked player needed just 85 minutes to defeat Philippoussis, recording one service break in each set to claim his first tournament tile of the year and 18th of his career.

"It's been a wonderful week," Hewitt said. "It was fantastic preparation for the next two events in Indian Wells and Miami."

Hewitt only entered the tournament at the last minute as a wild card entry and he hadn't played in more than a month before arriving at Scottsdale.

But his game showed little rust all week, as he sailed into the final where he had a relatively easy time improving his lifetime record against Philippoussis to 3-1.

Philippoussis, a former Scottsdale champion, was hoping to end a two-year victory drought.

His last win came at Memphis in 2001.

"I'm starting to play good tennis again," Philippoussis said. "Hopefully there will be a few more Sundays left."

It was the first All-Australian title match on the ATP Tour since April 16, 2000, when Andrew Ilie defeated Jason Stoltenberg in the Atlanta finals.