The 17-times above best said bringing the brand of Edberg, Ivan Lendl, who coaches Andy Murray, and Boris Becker, who is now alive with Novak Djokovic, aback into the action was a absolute move.
The 32-year-old, who beforehand this anniversary said Edberg had taken some adulation to get involved, had been afraid at Becker's involvement, though.
"I didn't anticipate he capital to become a coach, I didn't apprehend to see him aback on tour, that was a bit of a surprise," Federer told reporters at the Brisbane International on Monday.
"But afresh again, I'm blessed to see above greats and legends aflame to be accomplishing such a job and absent to advice the abutting bearing and it brings them aback into the game.
"I anticipate it's a acceptable thing, I anticipate in tennis we accept addiction to, I won't say drive out, our legends and above greats (but) I anticipate we should accommodate them more.
"I don't anticipate it's the best way to accommodate them as a coach," he chuckled. "But at atomic you see them again.
"And maybe they absolutely get a aftertaste of it and added greats see that they are acceptable and that we are so blessed to see them.
"I anticipate it sends out a acceptable message."
Despite the deluge of big name apprenticeship recruits for the teams of the top players in men's tennis, Federer sees little change in the pecking adjustment for the Australian Open, which starts on January 13.
"I anticipate Rafa (Nadal) and Novak are activity to be the ones to exhausted this season, decidedly at the beginning, and afresh we accept to see if they can break injury-free, if they accumulate on acceptable as abundant as they did," the apple cardinal six said.
"I apprehend them to go abysmal in best of the tournaments they enter, of course."
Wimbledon best Andy Murray would about absolutely be aggregate with apple cardinal one Nadal and cardinal two Djokovic had he not been alone aback mid-September afterwards electing to accept an operation on his lower back.
Murray has called not to avert the Brisbane appellation he has won for the aftermost two years but Federer said he was attractive advanced to communicable up with the Scot at Melbourne Park.
"I'm absolutely hopeful for him that it'll be alright for the Australian Open," said Federer, who gets his division underway with a additional annular bout adjoin Jarkko Nieminen on Tuesday.
"It's a activity to be huge analysis for him now, it's activity to be the best of bristles sets."
