Following tight early exchanges, Mamiit, the second seed here, broke Danai in the eighth game and took the first set 6-3.

The Filipino veteran, ranked almost 350 places below his opponent, broke Danai in the first game of the second set and continued to dominate with his powerful and consistent groundstrokes, taking the set 6-0.

Once ranked 72 in the world but now close to dropping out of the top 500 at number 498, Mamiit, 31, also beat Danai in the 2005 SEA Games final in the Philippines to take the gold.

‘I felt fresh and great and solid throughout the whole match,’  said Mamiit, who Saturday lost to Danai in the semi-final of the team competition.

‘I just wanted to get better. I felt down on myself after the semi-final (of the team competition),’ he added.

Danai, who received treatment during the match, said: ‘I knew before that it was going to be a tough match because I hurt my left foot in the semi-final. He played well. I missed a lot because I couldn’t move well and had to try to hit winners.’

Top-seed Danai, the world number 154, had come into the tournament full of confidence following his first ever title at the round-robin Asia Cup on home soil earlier this month.

Danai, 26, reached the third round of the Australian Open earlier this year, beating 2003 French Open champion Juan Carlos Ferrero before falling to Serbia’s Novak Djokovic.

In the women’s singles, Thailand’s Nudnida Luangnam, 20, was beaten in straight sets by top-seeded Sandy Gumulya from Indonesia 6-1, 7-6 (7-2).

Nudnida, ranked 322 in the world and the second seed here, was more competitive in the second set but failed to take her chance when serving for the set and was beaten in the tie-break by the 21-year-old Gulmulya, ranked 244.

Thailand won both the men’s and women’s team golds in the tennis competition.