." I merely won and I really want raps," Croatian ping pong celebrity Donna Vekiu0107 declares Friday mid-day of the United States Open. She is actually simply trumped Peyton Stearns-- and after flexing as well as bathing-- her following quit pre-press event is the petit Julien Farel pop-up beauty shop concealed inside Queens's Arthur Ashe Coliseum. "I had been actually hanging around all time to see Julian and also get raps encouraged by Margot Robbie." Much more than 20 years earlier, hairstylist Julien Farel moved toward the United States Ping Pong Association along with an idea: a beauty salon where ping pong gamers can drop by for a hairstyle, design, or even one more form of self-care during the course of 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, now 16 years right into the beauty salon alliance at the Open, tells me with a smile. "I was actually quite consistent since I understood this would certainly be actually a perk for several professional athletes. As well as I was right. Right now, they wait for this minute to follow in and get a haircut." Many of the sporting activity's most significant names have actually rested inside this beauty salon, which is actually just open in the course of the two full weeks of the competition: "I cut Rafael Nadal's hair coming from lengthy to brief in 2010, that happened right here and it was actually a huge package. Everyone from Billie Jean Master to [Martina] Navratilova has actually sat in these chairs. We possessed Coco right here straight after she gained in 2015's event, as well." Vekiu0107 and also her brand-new booms, freshly cut through Julien Farel.Captured On Film by Caroline Tompkins.