Federer, seeded second, cruised to his 56th victory at the tournament, leaving him just two wins behind the record jointly held by Guillermo Vilas and Nicola Pietrangeli.
The 25-year-old can boast 35 trophies on clay in his career, behind only Argentina's Guillermo Vilas (45 titles) and Austrian Thomas Muster (40) in the all-time list.