It is difficult to imagine a different epilogue at the end of the first set. Difficult to imagine even at the foot of the finish line. Rafael Nadal’s victory seems obvious after forty minutes and impossible after just over two hours of play.At the ‘first’ from the tour in Australia and the triumph in Acapulco – a streak spiced up by fifteen consecutive successes, among other things – the very Spanish champion needs to make up two breaks late in the third set from Sebastian Korda.Still paralyzed with the fear of winning. Nadal, who even without shining blocks the first set without particular difficulties, gradually loses lucidity in the choices from the baseline and above all struggles to keep t …