AT times on Centre Court yesterday, you could have sworn Rafael Nadal had discovered a long lost brother.

Boasting the same Latin looks, clad in near identical white sports wear – right down to the tie-up bandana – and armed with a similar topspin lefty forehand, Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci must have made the Spaniard feel like he was being confronted by an apparition of himself.

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