.” I simply won and also I desire bangs,” Croatian tennis star Donna Vekiu0107 proclaims Friday mid-day of the United States Open. She’s merely beaten Peyton Stearns– and also after stretching as well as bathing– her next quit pre-press event is actually the petit Julien Farel pop-up beauty shop concealed inside Queens’s Arthur Ashe Stadium. “I had been actually hanging around all time to find Julian as well as acquire bangs motivated through Margot Robbie.” Greater than two decades earlier, hairdresser Julien Farel approached the USA Ping Pong Association along with a suggestion: a beauty parlor where tennis players could possibly pop in for a hairstyle, design, or even yet another kind of self-care throughout the US Open, one of one of the most high-intensity competitors of their year.
“It took them five years to say yes to me,” Farel, now 16 years into the beauty parlor partnership at the Open, informs me with a smile. “I was incredibly consistent given that I recognized this would certainly be actually a perk for numerous sportsmens. And also I was right.
Today, they wait for this moment ahead in and acquire a hairstyle.” Most of the sport’s biggest titles have actually sat inside this beauty salon, which is only open during the course of both full weeks of the competition: “I cut Rafael Nadal’s hair coming from lengthy to quick in 2010, that took place right here as well as it was a big bargain. Everybody coming from Billie Jean Master to [Martina] Navratilova has actually partaken these office chairs. Our team possessed Coco here straight after she succeeded in 2013’s competition, also.” Vekiu0107 and also her brand new bangs, newly reduced through Julien Farel.Photographed by Caroline Tompkins.