." I just won as well as I prefer bangs," Croatian ping pong celebrity Donna Vekiu0107 proclaims Friday afternoon of the US Open. She is actually simply defeated Peyton Stearns-- as well as after flexing and also bathing-- her upcoming cease pre-press event is the petit Julien Farel pop-up beauty shop hidden inside Queens's Arthur Ashe Coliseum. "I had actually been actually waiting all season to find Julian and acquire thumps influenced by Margot Robbie." More than twenty years back, hair stylist Julien Farel moved toward the USA Tennis Organization with a concept: a beauty shop where tennis gamers can drop by for a hairstyle, style, or even an additional kind of self-care in the course of the US Open, among the absolute most high-intensity competitors of their year. "It took them five years to okay me," Farel, right now 16 years in to the beauty parlor collaboration at the Open, informs me along with a smile. "I was actually extremely persistent considering that I recognized this will be a perk for lots of professional athletes. And also I corrected. Right now, they expect this moment to come in and also obtain a haircut." Most of the sport's most significant titles have actually rested inside this beauty shop, which is just available throughout the 2 full weeks of the competition: "I cut Rafael Nadal's hair coming from lengthy to short in 2010, that occurred right here and also it was actually a huge package. Everybody from Billie Jean Master to [Martina] Navratilova has actually sat in these office chairs. Our team possessed Coco right here straight after she won in 2015's tournament, as well." Vekiu0107 as well as her new booms, newly cut by Julien Farel.Captured On Film by Caroline Tompkins.