match point

1. 1.

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

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Questions about match point

What does match point mean?

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

Is match point a common word?

match point is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.