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Skateboarding Twins Execute a Career 180 in Turning to Tennis
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Nic and Tristan Puehse spent six years sailing through the air with the greatest of ease, bending on their
skateboards like yogis on mats. They had a clothing contract with Nike before their eighth birthdays, and by the age of 12, they were
performing difficult feats like the stalefish.

For their next move, they really made jaws drop. Eschewing a future as twin Tony Hawks, Nic and Tristan decided two years ago to try
to become the next Bob and Mike Bryan, the No. 1-ranked men’s doubles tennis team. The jump from the anarchistic world of skateboarding
to the button-down sport of tennis has been their toughest trick.

It is a huge adjustment, trading thrill rides on the skateboard for the emotional roller coaster of tennis points. Their learning curve is steep
because their competitors, in many cases, have several years more match experience.

People in both sports dismissed their decision as a flight of fancy and figured the twins would be back on their skateboards before long.
Two years into their tennis adventure, it is as if the twins simply traded one obsession for another. Training as long and hard on the court
as they once did at the park, the Puehses have made steady progress.

They are ranked in the top 25 in the Boys’ 16 rankings for the United States Tennis Association Southwest Section. Nationally, Tristan is
ranked No. 948 and Nic is No. 1,090, but in doubles, they recently won a junior event in Flagstaff, Ariz., and have acquitted themselves
well in matches against players who are several years older.

While the twins keep their focus on what’s ahead of them, many in the skateboarding world cannot help but look back. On a recent
afternoon, Nic sat in front of a computer at the family’s rented home here and found the farewell-to-skateboarding video they posted
on YouTube in September 2011.

Scrolling through the comments, including some recent posts, Nic stopped and read one aloud, “I bet it was the parents that made
them quit.” He turned and looked over his shoulder at his parents, Michael and Caryn, who were standing behind him with amused
expressions. “That got 10 likes.”

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As skateboarders, Tristan, left, and Nic had a contract with Nike.
Max Whittaker for The New York Times

Nic said: “We’ve had people say: ‘You had talent that other people didn’t have. You could have been legends.’ ”

Tristan said: “It’s hard for people to understand, especially going from skateboarding to tennis. A lot of skateboarders think tennis is a ridiculous sport.”

With more than a dozen sponsors and videos that registered more than 13 million views on YouTube, the twins, in 2011, were well on their way to
becoming the two-headed face of skateboarding. There was just one problem.

“We were getting lazy,” Nic said.

“Not lazy,” Tristan said, “but we didn’t want to skateboard as much.”

He added: “We had been skateboarding since we were 6. It’s really all we did.”

Nic said, “You want to venture into new things. You don’t want to get bored.”

In January 2011, during a family vacation in Carefree, Ariz., tied to a skateboarding video shoot, the twins borrowed rackets from the pro shop at the resort
where they were staying. They hit tennis balls with their father, who had dabbled in the sport as a child.

In tennis, as in skateboarding, the twins quickly mastered the basic skills. They fell in love with it. Turning to Tristan, who first floated the idea of changing
sports, Nic said, “If I hadn’t liked tennis, you probably would have gotten lonely and come back to skateboarding.”

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The Puehse family, from left, mother Caryn; daughter Natasha; father Michael and twins Nic and Tristan. The siblings are pursing their tennis dreams in Arizona.
Andy DeLisle for The New York Times

Their goal, they said, is to attend college on tennis scholarships, like the Stanford-educated Bryans, and become a successful pro doubles team. They have
received encouragement from the Bryans on Twitter, where Bob recently wrote: “Keep up the good work guys! We’re behind you all the way.”

Dave Macpherson, the Bryans’ longtime coach, took a look at the Puehses at the urging of a friend and lent them his expertise.

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Tristan practicing at home in Shingle Springs, Calif., when he was 9 years old.
Max Whittaker for The New York Times

“You can see they have great enthusiasm for the game, and they were so dialed in with their focus,” Macpherson said in a telephone interview.
“Certainly, it’s a challenge, isn’t it? They’re green, but maybe in the end, it will work out for them because they won’t get burned out.”

It was a weekday morning in November, and the twins were delighted to take a break from studying isosceles triangles to talk about tennis, a
much more enjoyable type of geometry lesson. Until two years ago, the family was based outside Sacramento. After a move to South Carolina,
where the Puehse (pronounced PEW-zah) twins received partial scholarships to Van Der Meer Tennis Academy, the family relocated this year
to Arizona. Nic and Tristan recently started working a few afternoons a week with Jimmy Mendieta, the director of tennis at DC Ranch Village
Health Club and Spa.

The Puehses are a self-contained unit, with the children home-schooled by their mother, whom Nic jokingly refers to as the headmaster of
Puehse Academy. Their father, self-employed in sales and marketing, oversees training and publicity, including a YouTube channel and a
Twitter feed with more than 92,000 followers.

Most days, Michael Puehse drives Nic, Tristan and Natasha, 12, who took up tennis when her brothers did and is also climbing up the junior ranks,
to the same Carefree courts where they first hit balls. Their drill-intensive practices last about 90 minutes and are light on technical feedback
and heavy on encouragement.

“Nic and Tristan have been very driven from such a young age,” Caryn Puehse said as she watched them practice. “I don’t know where it comes
from.”

She added: “When the twins came to us and said they wanted to quit skateboarding, Mike and I had to sit them down and tell them, ‘Do you
understand what you guys are giving up?’ We really struggled with it a little bit because of the regret factor. We didn’t want them to come back
to us someday and say, ‘Why didn’t you make us stay in skateboarding?’ ”

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Nic during a practice at home in 2007.
Max Whittaker for The New York Times

In choosing tennis, the twins were surprised to find they had, in some ways, forsaken the more genteel sport for the more cutthroat one.
Skateboarding was competitive but collaborative, with everyone enthusiastic in their support of those propelling the sport to new heights.

“It’s like people are trying to help people get better,” Tristan said. “It’s competitive, but you make friends. If someone does a trick nobody’s
landed before, everybody’s trying to do it.”

Nic said, “In skateboarding, there are judges, and you’re just trying to get the best score.”

In tennis, the twins have come across conscientious and congenial competitors but also a few who cheat on line calls and exhibit other
forms of less-than-sportsmanlike behavior.

“I have a couple of kids who, because I beat them, they come to every match I play now and cheer, obviously against me,” Tristan said.

On the first day of a weekend tournament at Scottsdale Ranch Park in early November, the only spectators during Tristan’s opening
match were family. Gina Puehse, the twins’ grandmother who was visiting from California, planted herself on a bench, while Michael
alternated between courts, catching points of each twin’s match. Caryn showed up later with Michael’s father and Natasha, who was
playing matches at a different site.

Tristan prefers that his parents not watch his matches, because he is inclined to try too hard in their presence. Nic, who takes acting
classes once a week at Dearing Studio in Phoenix, enjoys playing in front of a crowd.

The twins have distinct games. At 5 foot 11 inches, Tristan is 3 inches taller than Nic, with more powerful strokes. Nic is more of a touch
player who likes to mix up his shots and move his opponent strategically around the court.

Each struggles with the mental game. Tristan said he was inclined to overthink the moment in tennis instead of fully inhabiting it, as he did
during skateboarding runs. Nic said nothing in skateboarding prepared him for the emotional ups and downs of a tennis match.

“It can be exciting and frustrating in a single game,” he said.

Nic sometimes misses the spotlight that he took for granted as a skateboarder. Before he signed up for his first acting class, he and his brother
had starred in a movie, playing themselves in 2010’s “Nic and Tristan Go Mega Dega.”

On occasion, the twins feel as if they are playing aliens in their latest roles. They gave up fame and fortune to take up tennis, a sport populated
by teenagers aspiring to be rich and famous.

“I think Nic’s been questioning himself a little more,” Tristan said.

“Maybe a couple months ago that was true,” Nic said, “but now I’m past that.”
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