{"id":3287,"date":"2010-10-26T13:07:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T20:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=3287"},"modified":"2013-07-31T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T15:32:00","slug":"for-fernandez-twins-the-similarities-end-when-they-step-on-the-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=3287","title":{"rendered":"For Fernandez twins, the similarities end when they step on the court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Bill Enkhbayar<\/em><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 278px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-3288 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fernandez.png\" alt=\"fernandez twins\" width=\"278\" height=\"209\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stewart (left) and Steven Fernandez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>People constantly confuse juniors <strong>Steven<\/strong> and <strong>Stewart Fernandez<\/strong> for one another. Who could blame them? The identical twins do everything together: go to movies, work out\u2014they even hang out with the same group of friends. The similarities between the two are more than just skin deep: their personalities are alike, they possess strong values, and they share the same hobbies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe even dress the same,\u201d Stewart notes.<\/p>\n<p>So, how can anyone tell the two apart? It\u2019s actually quite simple. Just observe them on the court with the Lions\u2019 tennis team.<\/p>\n<p>Steven and Stewart have completely different styles of play. Stewart\u2019s game is aggressive: he likes to hit the big serve and wants to dominate the match with his forehand. Steven, on the other hand, likes to play with consistency: his mentality is to always hit one more ball than the opponent.<\/p>\n<p>How can identical twins, so similar off the court, be so different on it?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe adapted our playing styles against each other,\u201d Steven explains. \u201cWhen we first started playing tennis, we adjusted our styles to beat each other.\u201d Stewart believed aggressive play was the best way to overmatch Steven\u2019s consistency and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>So which brother is the better tennis player? When asked, Steven and Stewart looked puzzled for a moment before saying in unison, \u201cIs that a question? I am.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People constantly confuse juniors Steven and Stewart Fernandez for one another, but we&#8217;ve figured out one way to tell them apart. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":3288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-november-2010","category-lions-roar","category-on-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}