Polish tennis player Kamil Majchrzak has met a young fan after a video appearing to show a man snatching his hat from a boy in the crowd at the US Open went viral.<\/p>\n
Majchrzak shared two clips on his official Instagram account in which he shook hands with two boys and presented them with gifts – including a cap similar to one handed to the boy and then swiftly taken off him in the clip.<\/p>\n
“Today after warm up, I had a nice meeting,” the tennis pro wrote, adding: “Do you recognise [the cap]?”<\/p>\n
The viral video, widely reported to be from Majchrzak’s match on Thursday, showed the tennis player interacting with fans before offering a child the cap he had been wearing.<\/p>\n
A man next to the child can then be seen taking the cap before the child had a chance to grab it himself. The boy can then be seen pleading to get it back.<\/p>\n
Versions of the clip were subsequently shared on social media, with many users criticising the man – who multiple media outlets have since named as Piotr Szczerek, a Polish CEO of a paving company.<\/p>\n
BBC News has approached Mr Szczerek through his company for comment.<\/p>\n
Majchrzak also posted an image of him standing and smiling next to the boy wearing the cap.<\/p>\n
“Hello World, together with Brock we wish you a great day!” the tennis player’s caption said.<\/p>\n
Majchrzak, 29, is ranked 76th in the world in men’s singles.<\/p>\n
He came back from two sets down to beat Russian ninth seed Karen Khachanov, also 29, in a second-round match at Flushing Meadows on Thursday, but was forced to retire injured during the first set of his third-round tie against Switzerland’s Leandro Riedi on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Majchrzak later confirmed he had torn an intercostal muscle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polish tennis player Kamil Majchrzak has met a young fan after a video appearing to show a man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-123167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}