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What is "match point"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
match point
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Chang made it to match point on Lendl's serve.
▪ Muster angrily smashed his racket on the court after double-faulting on match point and could be fined.
▪ The best he could do was to save a match point and take the third game.
Wiktionary
match point

n. (context sports tennis English) A state in a game where a player can win the entire match by winning the next point. Often used in tennis.

WordNet
match point

n. the final point needed to win a match (especially in tennis)

Wikipedia
Match point

Match point may refer to:

  • Match point (tennis) is won if the player in the lead scores
  • Match Point, a 2005 film directed by Woody Allen
  • Matchpoint scoring in Duplicate bridge
  • Matchpoint, point in theory of computation used to arbitrarily selected point to read coordinates