.” I merely gained and also I prefer thumps,” Croatian tennis superstar Donna Vekiu0107 proclaims Friday afternoon of the United States Open. She is actually just defeated Peyton Stearns– as well as after flexing and also bathing– her next cease pre-press conference is actually the petit Julien Farel pop-up beauty parlor concealed inside Queens’s Arthur Ashe Coliseum. “I had been hanging around all time to observe Julian and also acquire thumps influenced by Margot Robbie.” More than twenty years earlier, hairstylist Julien Farel came close to the USA Ping Pong Association with an idea: a salon where ping pong players could pop in for a haircut, style, or another kind of self-care during the United States Open, among the absolute most high-intensity competitions of their year.
“It took them 5 years to okay me,” Farel, now 16 years in to the beauty shop collaboration at the Open, informs me along with a smile. “I was very constant since I knew this would be a perk for numerous sportsmens. As well as I corrected.
Right now, they wait for this moment to find in and also obtain a hairstyle.” A number of the sport’s biggest names have actually sat inside this hair salon, which is actually simply open in the course of the two weeks of the competition: “I reduced Rafael Nadal’s hair from long to brief in 2010, that happened on this site and also it was actually a huge bargain. Everyone coming from Billie Jean Master to [Martina] Navratilova has actually partaken these chairs. Our team possessed Coco below straight after she gained last year’s tournament, also.” Vekiu0107 and also her brand-new bangs, freshly cut through Julien Farel.Photographed by Caroline Tompkins.