." I only won and I wish thumps," Croatian tennis superstar Donna Vekiu0107 proclaims Friday mid-day of the United States Open. She is actually just beaten Peyton Stearns-- and also after extending and also bathing-- her following cease pre-press event is actually the petit Julien Farel pop-up hair salon hidden inside Queens's Arthur Ashe Stadium. "I had actually been hanging around all time to find Julian and acquire raps inspired by Margot Robbie." More than twenty years back, hairdresser Julien Farel approached the USA Tennis Association with a concept: a hair salon where ping pong players could drop by for a hairstyle, design, or yet another kind of self-care throughout the United States Open, some of the absolute most high-intensity competitors of their year. "It took them five years to okay me," Farel, right now 16 years right into the hair salon relationship at the Open, informs me along with a smile. "I was quite chronic considering that I recognized this would be a perk for numerous athletes. As well as I was right. Right now, they wait for this moment to come in and obtain a haircut." Much of the sport's greatest names have actually rested inside this hair salon, which is actually merely open during both weeks of the competition: "I reduced Rafael Nadal's hair from long to brief in 2010, that occurred on this site and it was actually a big package. Everybody from Billie Jean King to [Martina] Navratilova has actually partaken these chairs. Our team possessed Coco listed here right after she gained in 2014's competition, also." Vekiu0107 and also her brand new booms, recently reduced through Julien Farel.Captured On Film by Caroline Tompkins.