." I only won and I want whacks," Croatian tennis celebrity Donna Vekiu0107 declares Friday mid-day of the United States Open. She's simply beaten Peyton Stearns-- and also after extending and showering-- her following cease pre-press association is actually the petit Julien Farel pop-up salon concealed inside Queens's Arthur Ashe Stadium. "I had actually been actually waiting all season to view Julian and acquire raps influenced through Margot Robbie." Greater than two decades earlier, hairdresser Julien Farel approached the USA Tennis Organization with a suggestion: a beauty salon where tennis gamers might pop in for a hairstyle, type, or even one more kind of self-care in the course of the US Open, one of the absolute most high-intensity competitions of their year. "It took them 5 years to say yes to me," Farel, currently 16 years into the hair salon collaboration at the Open, informs me with a smile. "I was very chronic due to the fact that I knew this will be a perk for a lot of sportsmens. And also I corrected. Now, they expect this minute to come in and get a haircut." Most of the sport's greatest titles have actually rested inside this salon, which is actually simply available in the course of both full weeks of the competitors: "I cut Rafael Nadal's hair coming from lengthy to brief in 2010, that took place right here as well as it was a significant offer. Everyone from Billie Jean Master to [Martina] Navratilova has actually partaken these chairs. Our experts had Coco listed below straight after she won in 2015's competition, too." Vekiu0107 and her brand new bangs, newly reduced through Julien Farel.Photographed through Caroline Tompkins.