Daniil Medvedev coach’s NHL passion, Rangers hat has proved good luck charm at US Open

Three years ago, when Daniil Medvedev won his first U.S. Open title, his coach, Gilles Cervara, was wearing a blue New York Rangers cap.

Hailing from France, a country not known to be a hockey market, Cervara said it is his second favorite sport to watch behind tennis.

So the longtime coach began collecting NHL hats from the cities he visited four or five years ago, which he continues to do in his seventh year working with Medvedev.

The Rangers one, however, has proven to be special this time of year.

“I found the blue Rangers cap in a store, it was not the official [NHL] store because it was closed at that time after COVID, and it was the last one,” Cervara told The Post after Medvedev’s practice on Tuesday, ahead of his Wednesday night quarterfinal match against No. 1-seeded Jannik Sinner.

“I don’t buy any kind of cap. I just buy the ’47 [brand hats]. From the first day, every day I had this cap [on] and he won the trophy here. I never [wore] it again until last year [at the Open] and he made the final.