{"id":127876,"date":"2025-09-02T18:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/127876\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T18:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:56:10","slug":"ceo-apologizes-after-taking-fans-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/127876\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO Apologizes After Taking Fan\u2019s Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Trinity Rodman Speaks Out on Boyfriend Ben Shelton&#8217;s Injury Following 2025 US Open Retirement<\/p>\n<p>It was a fault heard around the world.<\/p>\n<p>But instead of a missed serve on the court, this error occurred in the stands of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/us_open\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">US Open<\/a> on August 28 when Polish CEO Piotr Szczerek was seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DN8dKQADqGL\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">seemingly snatching a hat<\/a> signed by his fellow countryman and player Kamil Majchrzak from\u00a0the hands of a young fan named Brock. Now, Piotr is sharing his desire to \u201cunequivocally apologize.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI take full responsibility for my extremely poor judgment and hurtful actions,\u201d he wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1EmuUQ7ygP\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Sept. 1 on Facebook.<\/a> \u201cIt was never my intent to steal away a prized memento from the young fan. I became caught up in the heat of the moment and the joy of the victory, and I believed Majchrzak was handing a hat to me to give to my sons, who had previously asked for autographs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Piotr\u2014who is CEO of paving company Drogbruk, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/ceo-apologizes-snatching-hat-kamil-majchrzak-signed-child-us-open-rcna228421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">per NBC News<\/a>\u2014noted that \u201cregardless\u201d of how he perceived the situation, his actions \u201churt the young boy and disappointed the fans.\u201d He also noted he\u2019s sent the autographed back to the boy, apologized to him and his family and clarified that any other statements appearing online claiming to be from him are not.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trinity Rodman Speaks Out on Boyfriend Ben Shelton&#8217;s Injury Following 2025 US Open Retirement It was a fault&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-127876","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\/127876","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=127876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}