." I just gained and also I yearn for bangs," Croatian ping pong superstar Donna Vekiu0107 announces Friday afternoon of the United States Open. She is actually only beaten Peyton Stearns-- and after flexing and also showering-- her upcoming quit pre-press conference is actually the petit Julien Farel pop-up hair salon hidden inside Queens's Arthur Ashe Arena. "I had actually been actually waiting all season to find Julian and receive whacks inspired through Margot Robbie." More than twenty years ago, hairstylist Julien Farel came close to the USA Tennis Organization with a tip: a beauty salon where ping pong gamers could drop by for a hairstyle, type, or even one more type of self-care during the United States Open, some 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 right into the beauty salon partnership at the Open, informs me with a smile. "I was actually very consistent given that I knew this would be a perk for a lot of athletes. And I corrected. Now, they expect this second to find in and also obtain a haircut." Most of the sport's most significant names have actually rested inside this beauty salon, which is actually only available throughout both weeks of the competitors: "I reduced Rafael Nadal's hair from long to short in 2010, that happened on this site and it was actually a major package. Everyone from Billie Jean Master to [Martina] Navratilova has beinged in these seats. Our experts possessed Coco here straight after she won last year's competition, too." Vekiu0107 and her new bangs, freshly reduced by Julien Farel.Photographed by Caroline Tompkins.