

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?



