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Rangers' Mika Zibanejad enjoying his visits to the U.S. Open

GREENBURGH, N.Y. — So what’s a young Swede new to the Big Apple do in late summer?

Catch a little tennis at the U.S. Open.

After all Mika Zibanejad, the 23-year-old center who was acquired by the Rangers from Ottawa for Derick Brassard on July 18, began playing tennis at age four and had a coach at 14.

So it was no surprise that Zibanejad has visited Flushing Meadows twice since Saturday and is closely following the matches on TV.

“I played a lot as a youngster, then turned to soccer — besides hockey,” Zibanejad said after an informal skate with more than a dozen players at the team’s training center on Thursday.