." I simply won and I wish thumps," Croatian ping pong superstar Donna Vekiu0107 proclaims Friday mid-day of the US Open. She's merely beaten Peyton Stearns-- and also after extending and also showering-- her upcoming deter pre-press association is the petit Julien Farel pop-up beauty salon concealed inside Queens's Arthur Ashe Stadium. "I had actually been hanging around all season to view Julian and get bangs encouraged through Margot Robbie." More than two decades back, hairstylist Julien Farel moved toward the USA Tennis Association along with a suggestion: a beauty salon where tennis gamers can pop in for a hairstyle, design, or even one more kind of self-care during the United States Open, one of the best high-intensity competitors of their year. "It took them five years to say yes to me," Farel, currently 16 years into the beauty shop relationship at the Open, informs me with a smile. "I was extremely persistent considering that I recognized this would certainly be actually a perk for a lot of athletes. As well as I corrected. Now, they wait for this second to follow in as well as get a haircut." A number of the sporting activity's biggest names have actually sat inside this beauty salon, which is just available in the course of both full weeks of the competition: "I cut Rafael Nadal's hair from lengthy to brief in 2010, that occurred on this site as well as it was actually a significant package. Everyone from Billie Jean Master to [Martina] Navratilova has partaken these seats. Our company possessed Coco listed here right after she succeeded in 2015's event, too." Vekiu0107 as well as her brand-new bangs, newly reduced through Julien Farel.Photographed by Caroline Tompkins.