." I merely won and I desire thumps," Croatian tennis celebrity Donna Vekiu0107 announces Friday afternoon of the US Open. She's just beaten Peyton Stearns-- and after stretching and also showering-- her following deter pre-press conference is actually the petit Julien Farel pop-up hair salon concealed inside Queens's Arthur Ashe Stadium. "I had been actually hanging around all period to observe Julian and also receive raps influenced by Margot Robbie." More than two decades back, hairstylist Julien Farel approached the United States Ping Pong Affiliation along with a tip: a beauty shop where ping pong gamers might come by for a haircut, type, or even another form of self-care in the course of the United States Open, among the best high-intensity competitors of their year. "It took them five years to okay me," Farel, right now 16 years into the beauty salon partnership at the Open, informs me along with a smile. "I was actually really consistent considering that I recognized this would be actually a perk for a lot of sportsmens. As well as I corrected. Now, they await this instant to find in and acquire a haircut." A lot of the sporting activity's most significant labels have actually sat inside this salon, which is just open in the course of the two weeks of the competition: "I reduced Rafael Nadal's hair coming from long to short in 2010, that took place right here as well as it was actually a big offer. Everyone coming from Billie Jean Master to [Martina] Navratilova has sat in these chairs. Our company possessed Coco below straight after she gained in 2014's tournament, too." Vekiu0107 and also her brand new bangs, fresh reduced through Julien Farel.Photographed by Caroline Tompkins.