By Chris Oddo | Thursday, March 5, 2015

Each week, we’ll dip into the archives at Tennis Now to bring you something extra special for Throwback Thursday. This week, to honor the upcoming Davis Cup World Group ties, we’ll go back to 2007, when Janko Tipsarevic made one of the greatest, most unfathomable gets—and subsequently hit a winner!—that we’ve ever seen.

Tipsarevic would go on to lose the match in five sets, but Serbia won the tie to associate Janko’s work of art with a winning effort in the Davis Cup annals.

The shot was so good that three years later Novak Djokovic was still talking about it. Here’s what Nole said about it during the 2010 US Open. The reporter is referring to Roger Federer’s tweener against Djokovic in 2009 US Open semifinals in the question, but Djokovic quickly counters with his reminiscence of Tipsarevic’s beauty:

Q. Some people say that's the greatest shot they've ever seen. As a player, do you have a shot you've seen someone do that was the greatest shot you've ever seen?

NOVAK DJOKOVIC: A couple of shots in my life that I saw that are just incredible. Actually, one of them was Janko's in the Davis Cup, I think, Serbia against Australia 2007, when he hit -- he was playing Hewitt. He was on the forehand side, kind of stretched out of the court. Hewitt, you know, hit an approach shot to his backhand side. There was no way he could make that ball. So he kind of played it behind like that, played a cross-court winner. It was incredible. There are a couple of shots that just come up for you in the right moment. You just, I guess, close your eyes and hope for the best. The odds of hitting those shots that well are not that big. You know, if you try 10 out of 10, I don't think you would make it.

But still, from my perspective, wasn't fun seeing Roger doing that shot last year. That's definitely a fact, yeah (smiling). But it was great. It was fantastic shot, definitely. For me, unfortunately I was across the net.