.” I only succeeded and I want whacks,” Croatian tennis star Donna Vekiu0107 proclaims Friday afternoon of the US Open. She is actually simply defeated Peyton Stearns– and after stretching as well as showering– her upcoming deter pre-press association is actually the petit Julien Farel pop-up hair salon concealed inside Queens’s Arthur Ashe Stadium. “I had been actually hanging around all time to observe Julian and receive whacks influenced by Margot Robbie.” More than 20 years back, hairdresser Julien Farel approached the United States Ping Pong Organization with a concept: a beauty parlor where tennis players might drop by for a haircut, type, or an additional type of self-care during the course of the United States Open, some of the best high-intensity competitors of their year.
“It took them five years to say yes to me,” Farel, now 16 years right into the beauty salon partnership at the Open, informs me with a smile. “I was actually extremely chronic since I understood this would be a perk for a lot of athletes. And I was right.
Right now, they wait on this moment to follow in as well as receive a hairstyle.” A number of the sporting activity’s largest names have actually sat inside this hair salon, which is actually simply available during the course of both full weeks of the competition: “I cut Rafael Nadal’s hair coming from long to short in 2010, that took place right here as well as it was a major package. Everybody from Billie Jean King to [Martina] Navratilova has actually beinged in these chairs. Our company possessed Coco right here right after she gained in 2014’s event, too.” Vekiu0107 and her brand-new bangs, freshly cut by Julien Farel.Captured On Film by Caroline Tompkins.