." I merely succeeded as well as I yearn for bangs," Croatian tennis superstar Donna Vekiu0107 declares Friday afternoon of the US Open. She is actually merely beaten Peyton Stearns-- and after flexing and bathing-- her following stop pre-press conference is the petit Julien Farel pop-up salon hidden inside Queens's Arthur Ashe Stadium. "I had actually been actually hanging around all season to see Julian as well as receive raps inspired by Margot Robbie." More than twenty years earlier, hairstylist Julien Farel came close to the USA Ping Pong Association with an idea: a beauty shop where tennis players can visit for a hairstyle, type, or even an additional type of self-care in the course of the US Open, one of the best high-intensity competitions of their year. "It took them 5 years to okay me," Farel, now 16 years into the beauty shop relationship at the Open, tells me with a smile. "I was actually very persistent since I understood this will be actually a perk for several sportsmens. And also I was right. Now, they expect this second to find in and acquire a hairstyle." Most of the sport's greatest labels have actually rested inside this hair salon, which is only open during the course of both full weeks of the competition: "I reduced Rafael Nadal's hair coming from lengthy to short in 2010, that occurred right here and also it was a huge bargain. Everybody from Billie Jean Master to [Martina] Navratilova has actually partaken these office chairs. Our company possessed Coco right here straight after she gained in 2013's competition, too." Vekiu0107 and also her new bangs, freshly reduced by Julien Farel.Captured On Film through Caroline Tompkins.