US Open [ Images ] champion Kim Clijsters [ Images ] got the better of world number one Lindsay Davenport [ Images ] 6-3, 7-5 in a hard-fought Champions Challenge final in Hong Kong on Saturday.

The world number two overcame a nervous start to win the exhibition tournament, featuring four of the world's top 10 women players.

Clijsters said she found it tough to pull away from the 29-year-old American as both players made plenty of errors and struggled to hold serve.

"It was a matter of the person who was making less errors was going to win today," said Clijsters, who beat China National Games champion Zheng Jie [ Images ] and Russian Elena Dementieva [ Images ] to reach the final in the eight-player event.

Clijsters fought back from 3-1 down in the first set to break twice for 5-3 before serving out the set. There were seven breaks of serve in the second set before Davenport broke for 5-3 when Clijsters found the net after a lengthy rally.

But the 22-year-old Belgian recovered to break twice and won with an overhead smash on her own serve after 75 minutes.