." I simply won and I wish whacks," Croatian tennis celebrity Donna Vekiu0107 declares Friday afternoon of the US Open. She is actually just trumped Peyton Stearns-- and also after flexing and showering-- her upcoming cease pre-press conference is actually the petit Julien Farel pop-up salon concealed inside Queens's Arthur Ashe Arena. "I had been waiting all season to see Julian and obtain bangs encouraged through Margot Robbie." Much more than twenty years earlier, hairdresser Julien Farel approached the United States Tennis Affiliation along with an idea: a beauty parlor where ping pong players could possibly pop in for a haircut, design, or another form of self-care throughout the United States Open, among one of the most high-intensity competitions of their year. "It took all of them 5 years to say yes to me," Farel, right now 16 years in to the beauty parlor partnership at the Open, informs me along with a smile. "I was extremely chronic due to the fact that I understood this would be actually a perk for lots of professional athletes. And I corrected. Now, they expect this instant to come in and also obtain a hairstyle." Much of the sporting activity's biggest titles have actually sat inside this salon, which is only available in the course of both weeks of the competition: "I reduced Rafael Nadal's hair from long to short in 2010, that took place on this site as well as it was actually a major offer. Everybody from Billie Jean King to [Martina] Navratilova has actually partaken these office chairs. Our company possessed Coco here right after she won last year's tournament, too." Vekiu0107 and her new bangs, freshly cut through Julien Farel.Captured On Film through Caroline Tompkins.