Federer, 32, pulled out of this week's Madrid Masters  tournament on Tuesday as the Swiss world number four chose to be with his wife for the birth in Zurich.

"Mirka and I are so incredibly happy to share that Leo and Lenny were born this evening," tweeted  Federer, who will likely miss next week's Rome Masters.

The 17-time Grand Slam champion already has four-year-old twin girls, Myla Rose and Charlene Riva.

 Federer, whose older sister Diana also has twins, is expected to return to tennis at the French Open, which starts on 25 May.

The 2009 champion at Roland Garros has not missed a Grand Slam tournament since 2000.

Federer, who won the last of his Grand Slam titles at Wimbledon in 2012, last played three weeks ago when he lost to countryman Stanislas Wawrinka in the final of the Monte-Carlo Masters.

In Madrid on Tuesday, third seed Wawrinka, the Australian Open champion, lost 1-6 6-2 6-4 to Austrian qualifier Dominic Thiem, while fifth seed David Ferrer beat fellow Spaniard Albert Ramos 7-6 (8-6) 5-7 6-3.

Spain's Nicolas Almagro needed 11 match points to beat Andrey Golubev 6-3 6-7 (9-11) 7-6 (7-4) and set up a second-round match against Britain's Andy Murray on Wednesday.