The CEO of a Polish paving company, Piotr Szczerek, said in a statement Monday morning he thought the player had offered him the hat for his sons.
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Szczerek posted a statement Monday morning to what appears to be the Facebook and Instagram pages for Drogbruk, his paving company, acknowledging his viral hat-snatching incident was a “grave mistake,” according to a Google translation.
“I was convinced that the tennis player was passing the cap to me – for my sons, who had previously asked for autographs,” Szczerek said, referring to Kamil Majchrzak, the Polish tennis player who handed his hat to a young boy.
Szczerek apologized to the boy and his family and said he has since returned the hat to him.
Szczerek said other statements purporting to be from him, some of which have gone viral on social media, are not authentic.
