The 17-time Grand Slam champion joined Jimmy Connors (1,253) and Ivan Lendl (1,071) as the only players to win 1,000 times on the men's professional tour.
"Clearly it's a special day for me, winning a title plus getting to the magic number of 1,000," Federer said after his 6-4, 6-7 (2), 6-4 win against the third-seeded Raonic. "It feels very different to any other match I've ever won. All those [milestone] numbers didn't mean anything to me, but for some reason 1,000 means a lot because it's such a huge number. Just alone to count to 1,000 is going to take a while."
In another tennis tournament:
* Stan Wawrinka notched a 6-3, 6-4 victory over qualifier Aljaz Bedene to win the Chennai (India) Open, the second consecutive title victory at Chennai and third overall for the fourth-ranked player.
Winter Sports
* Italy's Stefano Gross won a tight World Cup slalom in which just 0.03 seconds separated the top three finishers in Adelboden, Switzerland. It was his first career World Cup victory.
* A women's World Cup super-G was delayed for 45 minutes and then called off after 11 starters because of strong winds, a day after the cancellation of a downhill on the same course in Bad Kleinbirchheim, Austria.
* Sven Kramer took a record seventh European all-around speedskating title and fellow Dutch skater Ireen Wust won her third straight in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
* Junior world champion Nico Walther helped his German teammates win a four-man bobsled race for his first World Cup victory in Altenberg, Germany.
Sport Stops
* Records show the University of Texas' athletic department finished the 2013-14 academic year in the red for the first time in more than a dozen years. Fewer concerts at the Erwin Center and the cost of changing football coaches were cited.
* Andy Sullivan won his first European Tour title with a birdie on the first playoff hole against Charl Schwartzel, who let slip a five-shot overnight lead in a late collapse at the South African Open in Johannesburg.
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