Pregnant pause may become norm in tennis

[caption id="attachment_202700" align="aligncenter" width="630"] Mirka Federer together with her daughters, Myla Rose, left, and Charlene Riva, watch the men’s singles match between Roger Federer, of Switzerland, and Alexander Zverev, of Germany, during this year’s Hopman Cup at Perth Arena.
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Federer showed parenthood and titles can go together, now women following suit

There was a moment in the late Noughties when Roger Federer, so often the pied piper of tennis, shifted locker-room opinion on the notion of parenthood.

By running a military-style operation, staffed by multiple nannies, for his twin daughters, Charlene and Myla, born in 2009, Federer sparked a wave of procreation among his peers.