." I merely won and also I yearn for bangs," Croatian ping pong celebrity Donna Vekiu0107 announces Friday mid-day of the US Open. She is actually simply trumped Peyton Stearns-- and also after extending and showering-- her following deter pre-press event is actually the petit Julien Farel pop-up beauty parlor hidden inside Queens's Arthur Ashe Stadium. "I had been hanging around all time to find Julian and get bangs encouraged by Margot Robbie." More than two decades earlier, hairdresser Julien Farel came close to the USA Ping Pong Affiliation along with a tip: a beauty parlor where tennis players can come by for a hairstyle, type, or even another type of self-care in the course of the United States Open, among one of the most high-intensity competitors of their year. "It took all of them 5 years to say yes to me," Farel, right now 16 years into the beauty shop collaboration at the Open, tells me with a smile. "I was actually incredibly chronic considering that I understood this would certainly be actually a perk for a lot of sportsmens. And I was right. Right now, they wait on this second ahead in as well as obtain a haircut." A number of the sport's biggest names have sat inside this beauty parlor, which is actually merely open during the course of the two full weeks of the competitors: "I reduced Rafael Nadal's hair coming from lengthy to quick in 2010, that took place on this site and also it was a huge offer. Everyone from Billie Jean Master to [Martina] Navratilova has actually sat in these office chairs. Our team possessed Coco below right after she gained in 2014's event, too." Vekiu0107 and her brand-new booms, recently reduced by Julien Farel.Captured On Film by Caroline Tompkins.