{"id":389273,"date":"2025-09-01T13:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/389273\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T13:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:12:10","slug":"tennis-star-gives-boy-his-cap-after-snatching-video-at-us-open-goes-viral-us-open-tennis-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/389273\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis star gives boy his cap after snatching video at US Open goes viral | US Open Tennis 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Polish tennis player Kamil Majchrzak has met the young boy who appeared to have a cap snatched away from him by a man in the crowd at the end of a US Open match in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed&amp;CMP=emailbutton\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign up: AU Breaking News email<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Majchrzak appealed to his social media followers to help find the boy after footage of him attempting to give his cap to the youngster at the end of his second-round match went viral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Before the boy had a chance to take the hat, a man to his right apparently<strong> <\/strong>reached out and grabbed it, before swiftly placing it in a bag. The boy appeared to plead with the man and then with Majchrzak to get it back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Majchrzak was busy signing autographs for other members of the crowd at the time and the boy was left empty-handed.<\/p>\n<p>Allow content provided by a third party?<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-j4jr8l\">This article includes content hosted on embed.bsky.app. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as the provider may be using cookies and other technologies. To view this content, <strong>click &#8216;Allow and continue&#8217;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Majchrzak, Poland\u2019s No 2-ranked men\u2019s player, turned to social media to track the young fan down, and later appeared in an Instagram post shaking hands with the boy named only as Brock.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"#EmailSignup-skip-link-7\" class=\"dcr-jzxpee\">skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1xjndtj\">The best of our sports journalism from the past seven days and a heads-up on the weekend\u2019s action<\/p>\n<p><strong>Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our <a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"dcr-1rjy2q9\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google <a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"https:\/\/policies.google.com\/privacy\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"dcr-1rjy2q9\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy<\/a> and <a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"https:\/\/policies.google.com\/terms\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"dcr-1rjy2q9\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n<p id=\"EmailSignup-skip-link-7\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"after newsletter promotion\" role=\"note\" class=\"dcr-jzxpee\">after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cHello world, together with Brock we wish you a great day!\u201d the caption read. Brock was seen pulling on a similar cap to the one that had apparently been snatched away from him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u2018Today after warm up, I had a nice meeting. Do you recognise [the cap]?\u201d Majchrzak wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The 29-year-old, ranked 79 in the world, won his opening match at Flushing Meadows before recovering from two sets down to beat ninth seed Karen Khachanov in a second-round encounter that proved to be one of the upsets of the tournament so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">But his run came to an end on Saturday when he was forced to retire hurt midway through his next match against Switzerland\u2019s Leandro Riedi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polish tennis player Kamil Majchrzak has met the young boy who appeared to have a cap snatched away&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-389273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115129217399160242","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}