." I only won as well as I yearn for thumps," Croatian tennis star Donna Vekiu0107 proclaims Friday mid-day of the US Open. She is actually simply beaten Peyton Stearns-- and after flexing and also bathing-- her following cease pre-press event is actually the petit Julien Farel pop-up hair salon concealed inside Queens's Arthur Ashe Coliseum. "I had been actually hanging around all time to observe Julian and also acquire whacks encouraged through Margot Robbie." Greater than 20 years earlier, hairstylist Julien Farel approached the USA Ping Pong Organization along with a suggestion: a beauty shop where ping pong gamers can drop by for a hairstyle, type, or even one more kind of self-care during the course of the United States Open, among one of the most high-intensity competitions of their year. "It took all of them five years to okay me," Farel, currently 16 years in to the hair salon collaboration at the Open, tells me with a smile. "I was incredibly relentless since I understood this would be actually a perk for many professional athletes. And also I corrected. Now, they wait on this second to come in as well as acquire a haircut." A number of the sporting activity's greatest labels have actually sat inside this hair salon, which is actually only available during the course of the two full weeks of the competition: "I cut Rafael Nadal's hair coming from lengthy to brief in 2010, that happened right here and it was a big bargain. Everybody from Billie Jean King to [Martina] Navratilova has actually sat in these chairs. Our experts possessed Coco listed here straight after she gained in 2015's tournament, as well." Vekiu0107 as well as her brand new bangs, freshly reduced through Julien Farel.Captured On Film by Caroline Tompkins.