." I simply succeeded and also I want thumps," Croatian tennis celebrity Donna Vekiu0107 announces Friday mid-day of the US Open. She's only defeated Peyton Stearns-- and also after extending and bathing-- her next stop pre-press conference is the petit Julien Farel pop-up hair salon concealed inside Queens's Arthur Ashe Arena. "I had actually been waiting all period to find Julian and receive bangs motivated by Margot Robbie." Greater than twenty years earlier, hairdresser Julien Farel came close to the USA Tennis Affiliation with an idea: a beauty shop where ping pong players could possibly visit for a hairstyle, type, or even another type of self-care during the course of the US Open, some of the best high-intensity competitors of their year. "It took them 5 years to okay me," Farel, right now 16 years into the beauty shop alliance at the Open, informs me with a smile. "I was actually quite persistent considering that I knew this would be actually a perk for lots of athletes. As well as I was right. Now, they await this instant ahead in and also get a hairstyle." Much of the sporting activity's largest titles have rested inside this beauty salon, which is simply open in the course of the 2 full weeks of the competitors: "I cut Rafael Nadal's hair coming from lengthy to brief in 2010, that happened on this site as well as it was actually a large deal. Everybody coming from Billie Jean King to [Martina] Navratilova has actually beinged in these seats. Our company possessed Coco listed below straight after she succeeded in 2013's event, also." Vekiu0107 and also her new bangs, fresh cut by Julien Farel.Captured through Caroline Tompkins.