Last year, for the 50th anniversary of TENNIS Magazine, we focused on the past. Given the tome of stories we’d told, and the trove of players and matches we’d witnessed over the past half-century, it was only natural to look back.

And it was comical to even consider doing something similar this year, for the 20th anniversary of TENNIS.com. So we’re taking the opposite approach, and instead focusing on the future. All throughout the week, we’ll be talking about what’s next for the sport, the website and much more.

It wouldn’t be an anniversary, though, without a countdown. But how do you count down events that haven’t yet happened? By predicting what will come to be.

With that said, we present TENNIS.com’s 20 for 20: Twenty matches that we’ll still be talking about twenty years from now. We’ve restricted this list to matches that have taken place in the last 10 years—or, as 20 for 20 author Steve Tignor has put it, “The Golden Decade.” (If you haven’t read our 50th Anniversary Moments or Tournament of Champions, also written by Steve, I implore you to do so.)

It has been a bountiful time for tennis since TENNIS.com’s inception, and it’s anyone’s guess what the next 20 years will bring. But we believe that each of these matches will sustain the test of time.—Ed McGrogan, Senior Editor

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A few minutes after Roberta Vinci pulled off the biggest upset of 2015—and, according to some, the biggest upset of any year—she was asked if she had believed, when she woke up that morning, whether she had any chance of winning. Vinci didn’t hesitate with her answer.

No!” the Italian cried as she wiggled her head back and forth.

How about after she had pushed Serena to a third set?

Never,” Vinci said with a laugh.

What about when she broke Serena at 3-3 in the third and served for the match at 5-4?

“When I serve,” said Vinci, pretending to shake all over, “I think, ‘It’simpossible.’”

The night before, the world No. 43 had even gone so far as to call her travel agent and say, “OK, book me a flight, because, you know...”

So how did, at age 32 and playing in her first Grand Slam semifinal, this 132-pound woman win a match in which she was a 300-1 underdog? How did she beat an opponent who was 26-0 at major tournaments that year, and just two matches from completing the first calendar-year Grand Slam since Steffi Graf did it in 1988? How did this unsung player produce a win, as well as a post-match interview, that no one will ever forget?

Vinci played well, of course. “The best match of my life,” she called it. When it was over, she pointed upward and said, “I can maybe touch the sky with my finger.”

More important was the fact that Vinci played her game, one that was learned way back in the 20th century, when net-rushers with one-handers still roamed the land.

“She has that mean slice backhand,” Serena had said before the match. Vinci kept mixing that soft slice backhand with her hard flat forehand, and it was enough to keep Serena from swinging freely.

If there was a shot that exemplified Serena’s day, it came when she reached break point at 3-4 in the the second set and had a look at a wide-open forehand pass on the run. All year, Serena had faced turning points like that; all year she had made them turn her way.

This one turned against her: After getting her feet tangled up as she ran toward the net, Serena shanked the ball well wide, and Vinci held. After winning 26 straight matches at the Slams, she fell two games short in the 27th. Two games short, but not two points—Serena actually won 93 points in this match to Vinci’s 85.

“I did win three Grand Slams this year,” a somber Serena said afterward. “Yeah, I won four in a row. It’s pretty good.”

The reason Vinci did what no other woman could in 2015 wasn’t because she sliced her backhand or flattened out her forehand. She won because she had the guts and the game to close it out. Serving at 5-4, shaking like a leaf and still believing it was “impossible,” Vinci carved a gorgeous slice approach and followed it with a half-volley winner. On match point, she moved Serena across the baseline and seemed to have the rally won with a forehand. But Serena being Serena, she stretched herself out and forced Vinci to make one more ball. Vinci did.

When the impossible had finally happened, Vinci was asked what her reaction had been.

She dragged her finger across her forehand and let out a long “Whhhhheeeeeewwwww” of relief.

When it came to beating Serena in 2015, only seeing was believing.